The Pictures toolbar may appear as a floating toolbar on your page, or it may be docked at the bottom or top of your screen. Select the image that will contain the hotspot(s). To insert a circular or rectangular hotspot into your image, use the following instructions: The Picture Properties dialog box appears.įor an absolute link, under Default hyperlink, in the Location text box, type the complete URL.įor a relative link, under Default hyperlink, in the Location text box, type the filename of the page to which you want to link.Ĭreating Circular or Rectangular Hotspots Right click the desired image » select Picture Properties. After setting the default hyperlink, you can proceed to create circular/rectangular, polygonal, or text hotspots. This procedure allows you to create a default hyperlink for all portions of an image not containing hotspots. NOTE: Text hotspots can only be used with GIF images. This procedure allows you to create text that acts as the hotspot. This tool can be used for portions of images resembling a rectangle or square. This procedure allows you to create a rectangular hotspot. Thus, the polygonal tool is your best choice for precision. For example, you may want a map of the United States as your image and each state as a hotspot with an assigned hyperlink. This procedure allows you to create a hotspot with an irregular shape. For example, if a portion of an image map contains a circular image, such as a basketball, a circular hotspot is the best choice. This procedure allows you to create a circular hotspot. Therefore, if you click on part of an image not containing a hyperlink, you will be automatically taken to the default hyperlink. This procedure allows all parts of an image to contain a default hyperlink. In FrontPage, you can create five different types of hotspots, including the following: For additional information on hotspots, refer to Editing Hotspots. For additional information regarding the toolbar buttons, refer to Overview of Clip Art: Common Toolbar Buttons.
NOTE: For more information on links, refer to Linking to Pages in Your Collection and Linking to Internet Resources. Relative links are links within your personal collection of pages that can be identified by their filename and, in some cases, the path of the file therefore, it is not necessary to provide a complete URL for relative links. Absolute links are links to pages on the Web for which you must provide the complete URL. When assigning links to hotspots, it is helpful to understand the difference between absolute and relativelinks. In general, an image map should be relevant to its corresponding link. The geographical map of the campus is the image map and the buildings are the hotspots. Image maps can provide visual clues to the type of link. This article is based on legacy software.Īn image map is an image containing one or more clickable sections (i.e., hotspots), which are assigned hyperlinks. (Archives) Microsoft Front3: Image Maps: Creating Hotspots
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