Help - How to have customisable google map on my site

I want a google map on my website that:

Visitors can add place markers to

Thats the main thing i want them to be able to do, but also:

Zoomable in and out with mouse wheel (not always possible!)
Links on the same web page that when clicked highlight the relevant place marker on the map.

Any help? Cant find this easily anywhere, Google Maps API is a maze.

 

You would need to create a small app with database to store the 'locations' your users add -- then when the page is opened -- the map gets its data from the database and the map is drawn using the Google Maps API..

Here is the link to the map API
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/

 

Thanks for your reply, and ive been looking at the google map api site for two days now, how on earth do i customise/use that code to add what i want?

 

Dear andre199017,
please follow this:
http://maps.google.com/help/maps/getmaps/quick.html

 

Use Google maps API : http://code.google.com/apis/maps/