http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/how_to_image_an_image_map_in_frontpage/ A Web Design Software forum thread at WPDFD.com en-us 09/03/04, 247 17 2004 2004:%i:1094228222 12:17:02 06/07/13, 158 22 2013 2013:%i:1370593359 04:22:39 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss NineLabs Framework Feed Generator sitemaster@wpdfd.com sitemaster@wpdfd.com http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/how_to_image_an_image_map_in_frontpage/#p1256
I've just started to design my first website so please excuse my ignorence in web design.
My problem is that I can't get the Image Map I created in PhotoshopCS/ImagereadyCS to work in Frontpage. I've created the complete Image Map, set all the rollovers and saved it as an Html file with Images, so I end up with a file named *.html and a folder that has the original image and all of the rollover images. Then I open frontpage and insert the html file into my web page, but when I try it in the preview mode I get an error mesage saing that an object was expected, and if I preview it in the explorer the rollover efects don't show. I've tried inserting it with "format/web component/included content/page", but I get the same error. If anyone can tell me what I am doing wrong i'd appreciate it very much.
Thank you.

Domingo.]]> 09/03/04, 247 17 2004 2004:%i:1094228222 12:17:02 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/how_to_image_an_image_map_in_frontpage/#p1256 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/how_to_image_an_image_map_in_frontpage/#p1257
Imagemaps are generally bad news.
Frontpage is generally bad news.
Combining the two and you have definite, indescribable bad news.

Sorry I'm not more help, but I wouldn't wade into that minefield with a pitchfork in my back.]]> 09/03/04, 247 32 2004 2004:%i:1094243544 16:32:24 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/how_to_image_an_image_map_in_frontpage/#p1257 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/how_to_image_an_image_map_in_frontpage/#p1258 Still, I'm open to sugestions about other ways of achiveing my goal, wich is to do a web page with an image that responds on certain parts when moving the mouse over them, at the time that it gives you the posibility of clicking on those parts to link to other pages. ???


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Download Mozilla and try using Composer. It's free and it might be better than Frontpage. A few years ago I tried both and liked Composer better.]]> 09/03/04, 247 27 2004 2004:%i:1094264822 22:27:02 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/how_to_image_an_image_map_in_frontpage/#p1259 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/how_to_image_an_image_map_in_frontpage/#p1260
http://www.ehow.com/how_14311_create-clickable-image.html

http://webdesign.about.com/cs/frontpage/ht/htfpimagemap.htm

but it is interesting that above the tutorials in the search were several items about people having problems with image maps in FrontPage!

It would seem that FrontPage has a built-in image map editor. I would have thought that you are more likely to get results with that rather than import ImageReady code.

As Baxter hinted, image maps are not the best way to create links. Unless you specifically want to create hotspots on an image - like towns on a map or a medical illustration, it is better to use other methods to define 'hot' areas on an image.

The main problem with image maps is that they are static and don't provide any visual clue that they are links until you actually 'explore' them with the mouse and see the cursor change or the url in the status bar. It is important that a link looks like a link unless you are playing some sort of 'hide the link' game.

Slice up the image (as Stan suggests) into separate images with attached links. Having done that, you can provide a rollover state for the 'hot' areas that provide valuable feedback to the user.

You could also use CSS techniques but if it is your first site, that might be asking too much.]]> 09/05/04, 249 48 2004 2004:%i:1094399299 11:48:19 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/how_to_image_an_image_map_in_frontpage/#p1260 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/how_to_image_an_image_map_in_frontpage/#p1261
Also, check out NVU, it's a free, open-source editor based on Composer. Sort of super-composer. Definitely better than Frontpage.

Every day you use frontpage, you're learning junk you'll have to unlearn later.]]> 09/07/04, 251 03 2004 2004:%i:1094565787 10:03:07 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/how_to_image_an_image_map_in_frontpage/#p1261 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/how_to_image_an_image_map_in_frontpage/#p1262
http://www.nvu.com/

It's an open source HTML editor based upon Composer and CasCadeS and available in Windows, OSX an Linux flavours.

I promised to give them some feedback.]]> 09/07/04, 251 00 2004 2004:%i:1094572859 12:00:59 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/how_to_image_an_image_map_in_frontpage/#p1262 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/how_to_image_an_image_map_in_frontpage/#p1263
I found it a bit buggy and non-intuitive on OS X. But it is beta, and I AM set in my ways.]]> 09/07/04, 251 41 2004 2004:%i:1094575275 12:41:15 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/how_to_image_an_image_map_in_frontpage/#p1263 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/how_to_image_an_image_map_in_frontpage/#p1264 Thank you all for your help, whithout guys like you people like me would be stuck with there problems forever  ;D]]> 09/07/04, 251 57 2004 2004:%i:1094597874 18:57:54 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/how_to_image_an_image_map_in_frontpage/#p1264