Imagemaps Creating an imagemap What you will find below is by no means a complete tutorial on imagemaps. It instead is a summary of the steps needed to create one with specifics on how Caltech's servers are configured. There are several links throughout this document to more complete tutorials. First you need some sort of graphic image.
Most people use .gif or .jpg files for their webpages.
Once you have your image, you need to create a map file. This maps coordinate areas of the graphic to URLs . You can do this manually with xv or a similar program and a text editor, but there is a very handy program called Mapedit designed especially for this purpose. Note that sometimes the map file is integrated into the HTML document. Also, modern webpage creation software like Frontpage or DreamWeaver have built-in capability to create and manage imagemaps.