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Including several links within an image using image maps

Including several links within an image using image maps

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Including several links within an image using image maps

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- [Instructor] Next topic I want to look at, has to do with something called an image map, and the best way to describe this is just to show you what one looks like. This is the Basic Link Page that we've been working with so far, and this is in the beginning state it's inside your exercise files folder inside a folder 01-09, inside of the begin folder, open up links.html and you should see this page. And you'll see that, what I've posted here is a map of Southern New England. And this is lovely, let's just say that we want to have links from the states to the State's website. So, Massachusetts is going to go to mass.gov for example, and this is a very common thing that we see on the web. But as you'll notice, Massachusetts isn't exactly quite an even shape, it's not a rectangle, it's not a circle, it's a weirdo shape. How are we going to make a link for a weirdo shape like this? Well, fortunately there are resources out there that will do this for you pretty easily, and I recommend…

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