First off let me congratulate you on a great plugin. I have been looking for a long time for a solution that fits my needs, even coding my own solution in a wrapper. Then I found hotspots and with a little tweaking I think it will fit my needs perfectly.

I have been trolling the rest of these forums seeking answers to the following questions, so if they have been answered before please forgive me.

The site I am working on is not live yet so I have sent you ( Daniel) the password via personal email. I will willingly share what I have learnt with the rest of the forum once it is live.

I have modified the layout a little so the footer with the list of category hotspots is above the map and visible all the time. I have also removed the location search as I do not require it.

I would not call myself a developer but I am a fairly competent hacker so if you could steer me in the correct direction to solve any of the problems outlined below I would be most grateful.

1. I would like the DIV popup with the Short description to appear when the hotspot name is clicked in the list at the same time as the location is centred on the map. At the moment it appears when the icon on the map is clicked.

2. I would like the DIV popup to appear below the map (not on top of it) . I have tried modifying the hotspots.css without success. What I am after is demonstrated here quite well.

http://tech.reumer.net/Google-Maps/Demo-Google-Maps/kml-infowindow-outside-map.html

3. I notice these is a "Plugins in marker short description" option in the Advanced settings. I have turned this on and tried {module} from Modules Anywhere and {simpleproduct} from Simple Product Snapshot to display virtuemart items. Both of these cause the plugin to hang at "loading data". Is there a solution to this? Could you let me know which plugins are compatible and can be embedded.

4. Although I like the popout menu I think it would be improved greatly if it retracted automatically after a short time and/or it retracted when the main map was clicked in some way. Would this be hard to achieve?

5. How do i set the default map to Hybrid?

Well, I think that is enough questions for now. Any help you can give will be very gratefully appreciated.

Cheers
Mike