Free application to help add maps to your web site

As we all know or are probably beginning to learn, Google Maps API code is changing the way that people design and use their websites on the internet. More people are generating great websites that make great use the mapping technology or integrating the application into their current website for similar purposes. For example; now instead of providing a long list of text based directions to your customers, you can set up a web page that will allow them to enter their starting location and then your website can provide detailed directions for them to easily find where your business is actually located. So in a way Google has made it much easier for you to bring potential customers to your business.

Well some people may be wondering how hard it would be for them to incorporate or add the Google Maps API functionality to their web site. Well for most web sites that are designed and managed by web designer whom have a pretty good idea of the various coding languages, we recommend that they go to the Google Maps API section of the Google website directly and start there because this would be the better option for them. However for the average beginner or person with a small business website, we have found a simple web tool that can get them started.

Get a Hold of Me website offers a simple form based web tool that has been designed to generate the proper Google Maps API code for you that you can simply cut and paste into a HTML or PHP web page and not worry about really understanding how it works. This tool is very basic and allows you to enter some simple parameters (which we will cover later on) and that is basically it. If you do not have a Google Maps API code for your website then it will still work on their web site but will not work when you copy and paste it onto yours, however you get an API code for free from Google. So all you really need to do is, sign up with Google for a free API code, fill in the Get a Hold of Me is a simple form, generate the html/AJAX code and paste it into your website. Yes that is it; you will only have a basic Google Map page, but we will provide tips and techniques later on to help you customize this page.

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