Multiple Links Per Picture

[IWP506]

Hello everyone. I have a header picture for my website with text on it
like "Home" "links" "about" etc. It's all 1 picture. I've seen
people's sites where they have 1 picture but somehow make only portions
of it a link.

My question is is there any way to make a section point to 1 page,
another sectioni to another page, etc, or do i need to make seperate
images and try to piece them together.

I'm using frontpage 2000

thanks
IWP506

[Els]

IW****@gmail.com wrote:

Hello everyone. I have a header picture for my website with text on it
like "Home" "links" "about" etc. It's all 1 picture. I've seen
people's sites where they have 1 picture but somehow make only portions
of it a link.

My question is is there any way to make a section point to 1 page,
another sectioni to another page, etc, or do i need to make seperate
images and try to piece them together.
The thing you're looking for, is an imagemap. It's not a good idea
though, as when someone looks at your page with images turned off,
they'll have no idea where to click. The alt texts of the links in an
imagemap aren't shown.

That said, all separate images for the navigation of your site isn't a
good idea either, as people won't be able to resize the text if it's
too small for them. Why not use regular text links, and have the
picture (if there's more to the picture than just text) in the
background?
I'm using frontpage 2000

I don't know FrontPage, but I've heard all kinds of not so good stuff
about it.
Why not code your pages by hand?

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[IWP506]

OK thanks for the answer & input.

IWP506

[C A Upsdell]

Els wrote:

IW****@gmail.com wrote:

Hello everyone. I have a header picture for my website with text on it
like "Home" "links" "about" etc. It's all 1 picture. I've seen
people's sites where they have 1 picture but somehow make only portions
of it a link.

My question is is there any way to make a section point to 1 page,
another sectioni to another page, etc, or do i need to make seperate
images and try to piece them together.

The thing you're looking for, is an imagemap. It's not a good idea
though, as when someone looks at your page with images turned off,
they'll have no idea where to click. The alt texts of the links in an
imagemap aren't shown.

Specify both alt and title attributes for the imagemap elements, and the
tooltips WILL appear for the various browsers.

[Els]

C A Upsdell wrote:

Els wrote:

IW****@gmail.com wrote:

Hello everyone. I have a header picture for my website with text on it
like "Home" "links" "about" etc. It's all 1 picture. I've seen
people's sites where they have 1 picture but somehow make only portions
of it a link.

My question is is there any way to make a section point to 1 page,
another sectioni to another page, etc, or do i need to make seperate
images and try to piece them together.

The thing you're looking for, is an imagemap. It's not a good idea
though, as when someone looks at your page with images turned off,
they'll have no idea where to click. The alt texts of the links in an
imagemap aren't shown.

Specify both alt and title attributes for the imagemap elements, and the
tooltips WILL appear for the various browsers.

Tooltips only work on graphical browsers though, and do you really
suggest visitors should hover over an empty square and see where which
tooltip will pop up?
Fun for a kids adventure site, but most people want to have an
overview of options instead of a riddle...
(or at least I think so ;-) )

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[IWP506]

Wow, the image map worked perfectly.

Thanks again.

And for anyone reading this wanting to do the same thing, i used this
site it's very good:
http://www.devx.com/projectcool/Arti...?supportItem=1

[C A Upsdell]

Els wrote:

C A Upsdell wrote:

Els wrote:

IW****@gmail.com wrote:

Hello everyone. I have a header picture for my website with text on it
like "Home" "links" "about" etc. It's all 1 picture. I've seen
people's sites where they have 1 picture but somehow make only portions
of it a link.

My question is is there any way to make a section point to 1 page,
another sectioni to another page, etc, or do i need to make seperate
images and try to piece them together.

The thing you're looking for, is an imagemap. It's not a good idea
though, as when someone looks at your page with images turned off,
they'll have no idea where to click. The alt texts of the links in an
imagemap aren't shown.

Specify both alt and title attributes for the imagemap elements, and the
tooltips WILL appear for the various browsers.

Tooltips only work on graphical browsers though, and do you really
suggest visitors should hover over an empty square and see where which
tooltip will pop up?

I would hope that, in the absence of graphics, the non-graphical
browsers would render the ALT text instead, so the user would not be
working blind!

(BTW, XHMTL 2.0 has a neat way of dealing with non-graphical user
agents. A new draft has recently been issued: take a look!)

[laurence]

The thing you're looking for, is an imagemap. It's not a good idea
though, as when someone looks at your page with images turned off,
they'll have no idea where to click.

See thread below ("W3C Spec: Block level content within <map>" 9 June 2005)
where I asked about why the recommendation allows for block level content
inside a map. The posted answers deal with this concern.

Laurence.

[kchayka]

C A Upsdell > wrote:

[re: image maps]
I would hope that, in the absence of graphics, the non-graphical
browsers would render the ALT text instead, so the user would not be
working blind!

I don't know of a single graphical browser that doesn't *suck* in its
handling of client-side image maps when image loading is disabled. Some
won't acknowledge the links even exist without loading the image.

Image maps are A Bad Thing. Use with extreme caution.

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[Lauri Raittila]

in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, kchayka wrote:

Image maps are A Bad Thing. Use with extreme caution.

Image maps are quite OK, for image *maps*, with adequate alternative way
to select right place.

They are extremily poor choise for link list that is only one image
because someone didn't bother to slice it.

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[Els]

C A Upsdell wrote:

Els wrote:

C A Upsdell wrote:

Els wrote:

IW****@gmail.com wrote:

>Hello everyone. I have a header picture for my website with text on it
>like "Home" "links" "about" etc. It's all 1 picture. I've seen
>people's sites where they have 1 picture but somehow make only portions
>of it a link.
>
>My question is is there any way to make a section point to 1 page,
>another sectioni to another page, etc, or do i need to make seperate
>images and try to piece them together.

The thing you're looking for, is an imagemap. It's not a good idea
though, as when someone looks at your page with images turned off,
they'll have no idea where to click. The alt texts of the links in an
imagemap aren't shown.

Specify both alt and title attributes for the imagemap elements, and the
tooltips WILL appear for the various browsers.
Tooltips only work on graphical browsers though, and do you really
suggest visitors should hover over an empty square and see where which
tooltip will pop up?

I would hope that, in the absence of graphics, the non-graphical
browsers would render the ALT text instead, so the user would not be
working blind!

Well, that's why I said that alt text on imagemap links doesn't
work... :S
(BTW, XHMTL 2.0 has a neat way of dealing with non-graphical user
agents. A new draft has recently been issued: take a look!)

Nah.. I haven't even looked into XHTML 1.0 yet ... ;-)

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