Negative side to Hotspots?

[wbstein]

What's the downside of hotspots?

All computers since 1997, can see them right?
Any serious negatives?

[robert adams]

Originally Posted by www.lavashark.com

What's the downside of hotspots?

All computers since 1997, can see them right?
Any serious negatives?

what "hotspots" are you talking about?


robert

[wbstein]

Lets take an image.
300x300
let's slice it into 8 slices so that there can be 8 differnet links coming out of it...

understand so far?

Now, let's keep that image, but instead add hotspots for the areas that I want to link from. Then link from those hotspots.

Hotspots cna be circles, squares, or polygons. Whatever coordinates I set.

[PhilC]

I remember reading about how some search engines don't like those ...

[DaveyBoy]

an imagemap you mean? can be useful but i seldom use them these days.

[chaka42]

if you are talking about imagemaps, then the downsides to those: 1) hurts search engine results, 2) download time increases as opposed to using regular text links. i'm sure there are other negatives, but i can't think of them at the moment.

[robert adams]

see, I'm not the only one that wasn't sure what you were talking about,

the phrase "hotspots" is currently being used most often in relation to wireless access points for internet access, like in some McDonalds , and some coffee shops, etc.


now, my opinion on using image maps is like the others, if the image is very big then you are just increasing download time , I keep hearing people talk about "creating" their webpages in photoshop and then slicing it up, etc.

When I figured out that was just a new term for image maps, I was surprised that people still use that technique .I thought that was old hat like frames, and big borders around tables.


luck,
robert

[DaveyBoy]

slicing in photoshop and image maps are two totally different concepts. although in principle you may be using slices images for your navigation etc., it's seperate image files as opposed to a map of co-ordinates on a single image.

This method certainly isn't old hat. It's still very widely used, and more so with Photoshop software being greatly improved in the last 3 releases.

[robert adams]

Originally Posted by DaveyBoy

slicing in photoshop and image maps are two totally different concepts. although in principle you may be using slices images for your navigation etc., it's seperate image files as opposed to a map of co-ordinates on a single image.

This method certainly isn't old hat. It's still very widely used, and more so with Photoshop software being greatly improved in the last 3 releases.

ok, I got that. Just for curiousity, could you point me to a web page that was designed in photoshop and "sliced" .
thanks,
robert

[DaveyBoy]

hmmmm, ok...

http://www.stealthnet3000.com

[robert adams]

nice looking site. now if i was going to create that site, i would have created each of the images,(actually not, I don't do graphics) then created the page and inserted the images into the proper places in the html for the page. the end result would be the same code and therefore the same page.

how then do you do this in photoshop as one single image and then break it up and then create the html, etc, etc.
I know how to create webpages, I just can't seem to grasp this idea of creating an image and then cutting it up somehow to make a web page out of it.


thanks,
robert

[SN3]

Originally Posted by DaveyBoy

hmmmm, ok...

http://www.stealthnet3000.com

THAT WAS NOT SLICED. LOOK AT THE CODING. THAT IS HAND CODED.

[SN3]

Originally Posted by robert adams

nice looking site. now if i was going to create that site, i would have created each of the images,(actually not, I don't do graphics) then created the page and inserted the images into the proper places in the html for the page. the end result would be the same code and therefore the same page.

how then do you do this in photoshop as one single image and then break it up and then create the html, etc, etc.
I know how to create webpages, I just can't seem to grasp this idea of creating an image and then cutting it up somehow to make a web page out of it.


thanks,
robert

That's what I did. I made part of the design in Photoshop CS. Then I made a .php file and started coding, hand coding. I did not slice it up and export it.

[robert adams]

that may be why I am confused, I asked for an example of a site made from a sliced photoshop image and was given your site.

I did look at the code that is why I posted what I did.


thanks,
robert