6.6. Image Maps

As Chapter 5 makes clear, you can easily turn a graphic into a clickable link. You can also add multiple links to a single image.

Suppose your company has offices all over the country, and you want to provide an easy way for your visitors to locate the nearest state office. One approach would be simply to list all the state names, and link them to separate pages for each state. But that's boring! Instead, you could use a map of the United States—one image—and turn each state's outline into a hotspot that's linked to an appropriate page, listing all the offices in that state.