Monday, April 21, 2008

Image maps

In the Round Australia Expedition online exhibition a map of Australia showing the expedition route is used as an image map to provide links to the eight stages of the expedition.

An image map allows links from selected sections of an image to be made to different destinations.

Photoshop was used to determine the co-ordinates of the different sections wich were to be included in the html code. There are also specific image mapping programs available to determine co-ordinates.

As there are problems providing code in the blog, as the blog wants to turn the code into an image etc, it will be necessary to go to the actual web page to view the code and locate instructions for use of the code.

Go to the Round Australia Expedition online exhibition and locate the page containing the image map - http://210.15.209.254/RAE/RAEtitle.html

Place the curser on the webpage, avoiding the actual image that forms the image map, and click the right mouse button.



If the browser used is Internet Explorer click View Source to view the code that makes up the html page.

If the browser used is Mozilla Filrefox click View Page Source to view the code that makes up the html page.

Scroll down the page until you find the text - Begin image map - and further down the page the text - End image map.

The code for the image map is located between these two tags.

Information about the use of each section of the code is also provided.

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