imaging help

[_freeze_]

how do you take an image and divide it up and individually link them up to different links?

[rockboy]

Paint Shop Pro will split up an image and create links, mouseovers, etc. It's really good and will also make image maps. It's shareware, you can download a trial version from Jasc.

http://www.jasc.com/

I used to use a little program called Splitz (freeware). It's really basic but will split an image up and create the html table code to reassemble it. It's pretty limited in file handling, it won't make gif's. You can output the individual files as .jpg or .png then convert to .gif in some other program like IrfanView. Once you have the individual images you can make them into links.

http://www.feldfunker.de/

The guy who made Splitz also made a really cool little magnifiier ("another lense"). Worth getting even if you don't like the splitter program.

[degsy]

You can write the Image Map code yourself, but as mentioned there are programs to do it for you.

http://www.download.com/TomaWeb-Image-Mapper/3000-2381_4-10149949.html?tag=lst-0-2

[renegade600]

Doing the map thing as suggested is better. One of the biggest problems with doing splicing is you may have problems with different browsers.

[_freeze_]

Yea thats right! :eek: a map link... thanks guys

[_freeze_]

I used to use a little program called Splitz (freeware). how about MS Frontpage?

[rockboy]

MS Frontpage? I guess you mean for creating html pages. As far as I know it won't split images. The last version of FP I used was 98 so I don't know what newer versions can do as far as image/link handling. My experience with it was that it took longer to make a page and then fix it with Notepad or a different html editor than it took to make it from scratch using different software. I also learned that the proprietary code it makes will break in some browsers unless you are very careful to keep it simple. Even that's hard for FP to do and even a simple web page ends up really bloated. I can't stand ugly code so I'll never use it again.

If you want a really good WYSIWYG editor try out Nvu. Much better (IMO) than FP. Freeware.
http://www.nvu.com/

It's the open source standalone equivalent of Netscape Composer and makes relatively clean code. I still use Notetab Pro for almost everything but once in a while I play around with Nvu. It's really impressive for ease of use and clean code. It might convert me from Notetab someday. ;)

[degsy]

Also checkout this editor
http://www.mpsoftware.dk/htmlgate.php

and you may want to brushup on (x)HTML
http://www.w3schools.com/