Hotspots in images - no longer used?

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by Veej, Dec 4, 2007.

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    Hello!

    I'd just like to ask the web designers out there why hotspots in images are used that much anymore - are they not considered compliant to the latest standards or is this not the case?

    Reason I'm asking is because when I did a web design course a few years ago, we learnt to use them but I've never actually seen them on real websites lately.

    Oh BTW, a hotspot is part of an image which is linked - you can define what part of the image and where you want it linked to.

    Thanks :)
     
    Veej, Dec 4, 2007 IP
  2. yourihost

    yourihost Well-Known Member

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    Now Myspace and FaceBook use it to link to different peoples profiles
     
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  3. anantk

    anantk Active Member

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    they're called image maps.
    image maps use a lot of code, yes a lot of it
    this slows down page loading
    relatively new alternatives to image maps include image slicing in photoshop
     
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    Veej Active Member

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    Ah, ok - thanks for your answer anantk....didn't occur to me that I could use slicing to get the same effect!!

    Cheers!
     
    Veej, Dec 4, 2007 IP