Image maps can be a really simple and effective way of selecting from a series of options - a little bit more flexible that straightforward HTML links. We use an image map on every one of of main "Well House Consultants" pages - click on any on the languages named in our banner, and you'll be taken to a page about thet language, etc ...

Yesterday, I grabbed a series of possible "theme" pictures ... details of just what I'm up to another day ... and I want to present them on a single page for browsing, with the ability to zoom in on any one of them. Perfect use for an image map; try clicking on one of the thumbnails here and you'll see what I mean.



If you would like to see the source code or come on a course to teach you ... well ... just click on the links I've just given you.

Can you work out what links all 16 images in my example?
(written 2006-08-28)

 G100 - Well House Consultants - Introduction to Melksham
  [3344] Repost - some useful pages on our site - (2011-07-04)
  [3232] Around and about Melksham in more pictures - (2011-04-05)
  [2704] A walk within without - Melksham Without - (2010-04-02)
  [2350] Ten years in Melksham - looking forward to ten more. - (2009-08-11)
  [2329] Great to be in Melksham - (2009-08-08)
  [1725] A future vision for Melksham - (2008-07-27)
  [1341] Moving to Melksham? Househunting map. - (2007-09-09)
  [866] A lazy programmer is a good programmer - (2006-09-15)
  [676] Melksham, Wiltshire - (2006-04-08)
  [517] An occasional chance, and reducing data to manageable levels - (2005-12-04)
  [322] More maps - (2005-05-23)
  [291] Why are we no. 404 - (2005-04-25)
  [269] Free parking for short errands in Melksham - (2005-04-05)

H112 - PHP - Further Web Page and Network Handling
  [3568] Telling which ServerAlias your visitor used - useful during merging domains - (2012-01-04)
  [3540] Easy session example in PHP - keeping each customers data apart - (2011-12-06)
  [3432] 3 digit HTTP status codes - what are they, which are most common, which should be a concern? - (2011-09-11)
  [3036] Sending out an email containing HTML from within a PHP page - (2010-11-07)
  [2918] Downloading a report from the web for further local analysis - (2010-08-13)
  [2729] Uploading a document or image to its own URL via a browser - (2010-04-18)
  [2679] How to build a test harness into your PHP - (2010-03-16)
  [2632] Shipping a test harness with your class in PHP - (2010-02-12)
  [1549] http, https and ajp - comparison and choice - (2008-02-22)
  [1518] Downloading data for use in Excel (from PHP / MySQL) - (2008-01-25)
  [1515] Keeping staff up to date on hotel room status - (2008-01-22)
  [1505] Script to present commonly used images - PHP - (2008-01-13)
  [1496] PHP / Web 2 logging - (2008-01-06)
  [1495] Single login and single threaded models - Java and PHP - (2008-01-04)
  [1485] Copyright and theft of images, bandwidth and members. - (2007-12-26)
  [1379] Simple page password protection - PHP - (2007-10-04)
  [1355] .php or .html extension? Morally Static Pages - (2007-09-17)
  [1210] PHP header() function - uses and new restrictions - (2007-05-30)
  [1187] Updating a page strictly every minute (PHP, Perl) - (2007-05-14)
  [1183] Improving searches - from OR to AND? - (2007-05-11)
  [1114] PHP Image upload script - (2007-03-21)
  [1009] Passing GET parameters through Apache mod_rewrite - (2006-12-27)
  [936] Global, Superglobal, Session variables - scope and persistance in PHP - (2006-11-21)
  [904] Of course I'll tell you by email - (2006-10-25)
  [789] Hot answers in PHP - (2006-07-02)
  [767] Finding the language preference of a web site visitor - (2006-06-18)
  [675] Adding PHP tags to an old cgi program - (2006-04-08)
  [603] PHP - setting sort order with an associative array - (2006-02-13)
  [565] Using PHP to output images, XML, Style sheets, etc - (2006-01-15)
  [542] Morning image, afternoon image - (2005-12-26)
  [537] Daily Image Santafied - (2005-12-22)
  [484] Setting the file name for a downloaded document - (2005-11-03)
  [451] Accessing a page via POST from within a PHP script - (2005-09-26)
  [443] Server side scripting of styles to suit the browser - (2005-09-12)
  [425] Caching an XML feed - (2005-08-26)
  [410] Reading a news or blog feed (RSS) in your PHP page - (2005-08-12)
  [376] What brings people to my web site? - (2005-07-13)
  [372] Time calculation in PHP - (2005-07-08)
  [356] Sudoku helper or sudoku cheat - (2005-06-23)
  [345] Spotting a denial of service attack - (2005-06-12)
  [314] What language is this written in? - (2005-05-17)
  [220] When to use Frames - (2005-02-19)

M201 - Well House Manor - Around Melksham, Wiltshire
  [3605] Snow comes to Melksham, Wiltshire - pictures - (2012-02-10)
  [3569] Images of the new year in Melksham - (2012-01-05)
  [3543] Some different pictures from Melksham - (2011-12-07)
  [3526] Melksham has a Heart - Montage picture for sale - (2011-11-20)
  [3525] Melksham has a heart - come and see the pictures. Sunday, 11 to 3, Assembly Hall - (2011-11-18)
  [3520] Quintessentially English - scenes from our Wiltshire town - (2011-11-14)
  [3507] Melksham Forward - meeting summary and pictures - (2011-11-04)
  [3502] Sunday Evening ... newest and oldest Melksham pictures - (2011-10-30)
  [3499] Images of Melksham - (2011-10-29)
  [3470] Currently pictured in Melksham - (2011-10-09)
  [3389] Plenty to do in Melksham - (2011-08-13)
  [3337] Home Grown Pigs, near Melksham Station - (2011-06-26)
  [3305] Getting away from the madding crowd - an intercontinental journey - (2011-05-27)
  [3266] Easter on the Canal - near Melksham, Wiltshire - (2011-04-26)
  [3258] Morning in Melksham - (2011-04-23)
  [3248] What have these pictures in common? - (2011-04-16)
  [3227] Her favourite store - (2011-04-02)
  [3209] Seeing Electricity Pylons near Melksham - (2011-03-21)
  [3050] Views of Melksham - November 2010 - (2010-11-13)
  [3023] Autumn walk from Bowerhill - (2010-10-31)
  [2950] Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, turns first sod in Melksham Link Canal - (2010-09-09)
  [2854] Melksham Food and Drink Fair and Town Crier Competition - (2010-07-04)
  [2829] Dauncey Gardens, Melksham - (2010-06-27)
  [2739] Melksham Scouts - (2010-04-25)
  [2716] Melksham in Pictures - (2010-04-10)
  [2708] The bull on the footpath - (2010-04-04)
  [2691] New brochures for the Melksham area - (2010-03-24)
  [2665] Early Spring walk in Melksham - (2010-03-07)
  [2588] Freddies Wood and the K and A Canal - (2010-01-17)
  [2585] Consultation in Melksham, on Melkshams future - (2010-01-17)
  [2528] Melksham Christmas Lights - (2009-12-05)
  [2497] Brown horses in Melksham - (2009-11-08)
  [2480] Pantomimes around Melksham - 2009/2010 season - (2009-10-28)
  [2349] Businesses effected by road works in Melksham - (2009-08-11)
  [2297] Standing on the corner, Melksham Carnival - (2009-07-19)
  [2262] History is not always pretty - (2009-06-30)
  [2253] Walks in and around Melksham, Wiltshire - (2009-06-21)
  [2175] Melksham in pictures - (2009-05-11)
  [2168] In honour of the photograph, I present ... a walk from Reybridge to Lacock - (2009-05-10)
  [2142] Riverside Development - (2009-04-26)
  [2066] Melksham Industrial - (2009-03-04)
  [2064] East of Melksham Countryside - (2009-03-02)
  [2043] Confidence, Customer Service and Tourism in Melksham - (2009-02-15)
  [2008] The Month Ahead - What is happening in Melksham - (2009-01-25)
  [1986] Walk to Bowerhill - (2009-01-10)
  [1977] Going round the block - (2009-01-04)
  [1928] Melksham Oak Secondary School, Melksham, Wiltshire - (2008-12-07)
  [1451] More PHP sample and demonstration programs - (2007-12-01)
  [1436] A little touring help during a business trip to England - (2007-11-18)
  [1368] Getting the local voice heard - (2007-09-26)
  [1360] Asda in Melksham - Welcome or not? - (2007-09-21)
  [1343] Melksham Laundrette - (2007-09-09)
  [1330] While waiting for Melksham Post Office - (2007-09-02)
  [1271] Till the cows come home - (2007-07-19)
  [1266] Party in the Park - (2007-07-14)
  [1206] Where and When - can you place the picture? - (2007-05-27)
  [1177] Sorting out for a site map - (2007-05-05)
  [1137] Wiltshire Circles - (2007-04-07)
  [1117] Newport Male Voice Choir - (2007-03-24)
  [977] Melksham and Norwich - (2006-12-10)
  [957] Improving the historic town of Melksham - (2006-11-30)
  [929] Presenting Melksham - for a weekend away in Wiltshire - (2006-11-17)
  [879] Tuesday night is party night - (2006-09-26)
  [830] Butterflies in a Wiltshire garden - (2006-08-12)
  [811] Melksham in Bloom - (2006-07-22)
  [805] Melksham Carnival Parade - (2006-07-16)
  [437] Outside of the box - (2005-09-06)

W504 - Web and Intranet - Not Just Text
  [3133] An image from a website that occasionally comes out as hyroglyphics - (2011-01-14)
  [2554] Adding retrospective ALT attributes to IMG - (2009-12-28)
  [1806] Dealing with overhead cables in a photograph - (2008-09-21)
  [1749] Using server side and client side programming together - (2008-08-11)
  [1618] A small picture does not always cut it! - (2008-04-21)
  [665] PHP Image viewing application - (2006-04-01)
  [553] Keep that image small - (2006-01-03)
  [351] Is photoajustment an addiction? - (2005-06-18)

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