Thumbnails

Small, Medium and Large Images

Clickable Image

Image Maps

Use a small picture (or Thumbnail to indicate what a larger photo looks like. If they wish to view the larger, they can click to follow the link. I create small, medium and large versions of the photos and let the user decide what they have the time or the interest to view. This thumbnail is 3.5K, the medium is 12K and the large is 43K:

Wilkes Chemistry Department Receives $67,000 Grant to Study Chemical Waste Disposal.

Clickable images give the user a bigger target to hit than some text like Click Here. Clicking on steadily increasing images gives the impression of "zooming in on a picture."

Zoom in on the statue of John Wilkes.






Image Maps allow a user to click on a certain section of an image and have the server detect where the user clicks. Then the server can return a certain page based upon where the user has clicked. To make an image map work, there must be a CGI program running on the server machine to interpret the click and to tell the server what html page to return. Click for further information on Image Maps using MapServe.

I don't use imagemaps. There are too many possibilities for error. I like to use Fireworks, which will carve up an image and create a table to ho,d the pieces. Check out:

http://course.wilkes.edu/ed527jk/star/

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