I need to have a single image on one of my sites that has different areas on it where visitors can click and be redirected to different pages. I can’t break up the image and use hyperlinks b/c of the nature of the layout. thx
image maps is the solution for you http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_areamap shows you how different areas as in above sampel link ot different pages Good luck
Sweet thanks! Now my question is how do I determine the coordinates for the spots I want to make links?
there are various tools on the market to do so - also open source such as http://www.gimp.org/ available for most platforms - Gimp can do LOTS more than just that for details on how to use Gimp for image maps see http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Image_Map/ OR manually lets say you have a flower pics with 5 roses each rose should link to a different page hence you open that pic in a picture editor move over the pic with your cursor to ONE flower then LOOK at the coordinates of your cursor and wirte them down ... and create the imapge map I have done it only a few times you have variosu FORMs you can use as target area in a photo - such as ciurcles of a particular size or rectangles
jawinn i thought you have that image map up and running already it's so simple to do even by hand if you provide ONLINE here in DP -the URL to your site - the URL to the page you want the image map to be - the URL to the image you are planning to use - at least a few of the linked pages you want to have on the map - describe the area you want to have linked if any particular then i create you a working sampe with at least 3 ares then you do the remaining areas/links on oyur own its just a matter of minutes once you have started DM and other tools are fine if you make hundreds of pics and links for a single image its faster by hand