Relieving the Monotony


Image maps ¦ Music

Image maps

Image maps break images down into areas that the viewer can click on to go to other parts of your site, or the WWW depending on what you specify. It is recommended that you use a program called Mapthis! to create your image maps. Mapthis! is available from download.com, it is free for you to use, as long as you do not alter the comments section of the source code. It has an excellent help section to help get you started with creating image maps. However, you should know that there are two types of image maps that you can use. It will depend on your server, as to which one that you can use. The first is known as a client side image map---CERN. The second--NCSA--which is a server side image map. The client side map is based on the viewers machine, and the server side map is based on the server. This means of course that the server has got to be capable of supporting an image map. It is recommended that you contact your web host to find out which one you are able to use. For a sample client side image map, click here.

Music

You can also add music to your web page. The tags for Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator are different.
Internet Explorer BGSOUND SRC="" LOOP=""
You can specify the number of times the music plays with LOOP. Here is an example of the code: <BGSOUND SRC="music/stayin_alive.mid" Loop="0">
Netscape Navigator EMBED SRC="" AUTOPLAY=""
You can specify True or False for AUTOPLAY. If you specify false, Netscape Navigator will display a button for the viewer to press to here the sound.
Here is an example of the code:
<EMBED SRC="music/stayin_alive.mid" width="0" height="4" autoplay="true">