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    Picture clicking

    hi

    I made this for my site, for now


    How do i make it so that each of the words and the nvening are buttons (links)

    i have photoshop with image ready
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    You don't need imageready to splice it, you can use photoshop for that. Alternatively you can use an imagemap

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    Image maps are IMHO evil things that should be killed at birth except possibly when used on a "real" map.

    Personally I'd recommend trying not to create the links as images at all. The main reasons being:

    1) It is less accessible for users who wish to view the site from non-standard platforms i.e. PDAs or screen readers (for blind).

    2) User's can't change the font size (if they have a particularly low or high res) and I hate websites that attempt to force me to view the site at a particular resolution - not everyone runs 1024xx768 screens.

    3) There is nothing worse than 6 months down the road trying to locate the source file to add / modify a link and then recut all of the images. If text was overlayed over a background such a change would take minutes.

    However as suggested the best bet if you *must* have images is to cut out an image for each link, surround in an anchor tag and use tables or css to ensure they display as one picture on the screen.

    HTH - Rufus.

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    Yup, I agree - don't use images maps, just cut them up. Make sure you specify the height and width of each image, so that if they haven't being/won't be loaded, the layout of your site will be kept. Even using images is bad for the accessibility and modification issues that Rufus listed above.

    This is more of a personal point, but please make sure the website spans across the whole width of the page. I hate having a monitor at 1280X1024, and finding a website that is only, for example, 640 pixels wide.

    Also, you might want to look into a program that does anti aliasing for fonts - you can quite clearly see jagged edges on your image.
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    well this is just a trial/ do something with the crappyness of my site thing. I need to learn CSS lol
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