Creating Hotspots to Your Images

Introduction

Hotspots provide another form of hyperlinking, one that permits assigning different URL's to different parts of a picture. Another name for hotspots is image map areas. Hotspots can be used for any application that requires jumping to different locations by clicking different areas of a picture.

The following are the instructions to add hotspots to an image/picture using FrontPage 2002:

1. Open the webpage that contains the picture, and click the picture once to select it.

FrontPage Window With Picture Selected

2. Under the 'View' menu, go to 'Toolbars' and click on 'Pictures'. Items in the pictures toolbar are highlighted when the picture/image is selected.

FrontPage Menu: "View >> Toolbars >> Pictures"

3. Click the Rectangular Hotspot, Circular Hotspot, or Polygonal Hotspot button on the Pictures toolbar which are located towards the end of the toolbar.

Pictures Toolbar: Showing Rectangular, Circular & Polygonal Hotspots

4a. When using the Rectangular or Circular Hotspot tools, drag the mouse pointer over the portion of the picture that should define the hotspot.

Rectangular Hotspot Created, Also Shows the Insert Hyperlink Dialog Box

4b. When using the Polygon tool, draw the polygon by clicking the mouse pointer at each corner of the desired shape. To close the polygon, double-click the next-to-last point, and FrontPage draws the final line to the starting point.

Creating the Polygonal Hotspot

5. When dragging is complete, FrontPage opens the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, type in the URL in the address box and click on OK. Following the above steps creates a hyperlink to a portion of the image.

6. Repeat steps 3, 4, and 5 to define additional hotspots thereby creating additional hyperlinks for the same picture.

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