whats the best way to add links on a picture?

Question

you know the way a picture says "click here for the latest..."

Ive heard that image mapping is old
so is div overlay got something to do with it?

any links to good websites/videos/tutorials?

thank you

Answer 1

Image mapping IS NOT old. Div "overlays" are NOT OLD! The current web standards use divs and CSS. Keep up with the standards. Currently they are HTML 4.01 and CSS 2.1. The new ones, which you probably don't have a clue about, are HTML 5.0 and CSS 3.0. Google them and learn.



Free image mapping tools:



http://www.image-maps.com/

http://www.maschek.hu/imagemap/imgmap

http://www.online-image-editor.com/

http://thurmania.com/Mapmaker2.html

http://www.kolchose.org/simon/ajaximagemapcreator/



Any good web editor will have a built in image mapper utility. If you want a piece of crap site, use flash and actionscript 3.0. Then see what's your page ranking is going to be. Build one at wix.com.



Ron

Answer 2

Image mapping is for having different links for different parts of the picture. You can do that now by slicing. If you want just one link for the entire picture, just use an tag instead of the text in an anchor () tag.

Answer 3

If you're knowledgeable on CSS, here's a method on making a completely none-imagemap imagemap using CSS.



http://www.frankmanno.com/ideas/css-imagemap-redux/