sunken

What is the advantage of slicing over image mapping? I see a lot of sites that will do a slice for the navigation rather than an image map. It would seem to me that loading 10 pictures would take a lot longer than loading 1. The only advantage I can see is that you could change the image as the mouse hovers over it. Is this the main reason for that, or is there something I'm missing beyond that?

SpOrTsDuDe.Reese

Honestly I haven't tried slicing. I always use image mapping. I'll go look into it and get back to you.

sunken

I usually use image mapping as well. I have a very cool freeware program called MapThis that makes life so much easier to make them up.

SpOrTsDuDe.Reese

I just code it lol.

sunken

Sometimes I still do it that way, but if one is more complicated, I use MapThis. Basically it shows you the graphic, lets you draw boxes on the graphic. Then you can adjust them and you'll see exactly where the zones are. You then name them and the program figures out the code (and all the position values). It's not that useful for maps that are uniform, but it's great for ones that aren't.

Here is the link if anyone wants to check it out:
http://www.zoniez.com/Newbie/mapthis/mapthis.html

SpOrTsDuDe.Reese

Cool. I'm not checking it out though xD.