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Image Maps

Image maps are graphics that contain "hot spots" that respond to user input, generally a mouse click. The hot spots can be mapped to both internal and external pages. Image maps can make navigation easier and give visitors visual cues to content areas. If they are properly designed and integrated, image maps are attractive and practical enhancements to a site. They are especially useful where a recognizable set of images exists for content areas.

Resources

The Intro to Imagemaps site presents a discussion of both server-side and client-side image maps and a list of resources.

You can use an application such as MapEdit or LiveImage to create image map files, then use HomeSite to place them on your pages.

To add a client-side image map:

  1. Open the image editor and enter the image source file and attributes.
  2. Check the ISMAP box.
  3. If you use an external image map file, enter the path and file name in the Use Map text box. If you include the map file information in the document with the image, enter its name with a # prefix, such as #mapfile01. The map file text can be placed anywhere in the document before the </HTML> tag.

Note

Server-side image maps require processing of the map file on the server. The map file must contain a script to connect via HTTP to the locations specified in the image map.


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