image mapping for mac webdesign

Hey, i got a mac and i wanted to know if anyone could help me make one Menu.gif instead of little seperate texts with different links. it becomes quite irratating to make like 20 .gif's for a stupid menu. can anyone help me out?
AIM:elfunnio

he means like on his web site, instead of
seperate .gifs , he wants to slice it
for html, cept he doesn't have PS or anything of
the like

what does having a macintosh have anything to do with needing someone to do graphic work for you?

whoa whoa whoa there - no difference except the interface on this one! Let's try to avoid the 'platform argument' FOR ONE DAY!

Dude, just use ImageReady. It has everything you need to make an image map. It's mind-numbingly easy. (I don't know if that's a word..)

try this...

Just open the file you want mapped in IR, then press the letter P. Or you can click the little tool with a finger and a square in it. Draw your hot spot (clickable area) - then go down to your palette near the bottom of your screen (hopefully) and you should see an Image Map palette. Type in your links, Alt tags (yeah, I know, you can't see them on a mac, but they're not that important anyway) and save optimized as. Save the HTML and the images, then cut and paste them into your page code.

thank you, thank you very much....

good luck!

Yo graphicsguy. Thanks for the help. Ill go get a demo of Image Ready...hmm Now that I think about it, I might have Image Ready on Photoshop. Yea im new to this. And haha on the computer argument. That does happen alot, its just that im not too intune with how to use slow macs with huge applications like CorelDraw or PhotoShop or Macromedia. My mac is pretty slow. It was the second model out along time ago. Its the classic blue.
Anyway, thanks for the help everyone.
Look for the zine in a few days at...
www.geocities.com/anotherwebzine
I dont know of anyone offering trial memberships for domains.
later,
paul

DUDE!

save yourself a TON of trouble and don't even install Corel Draw on your "old" Mac. - or any mac for that matter. It's yucky. shoot for freehand or illustrator instead.

Oh, and I have a beige G3 desktop. Now who's Mac is old!

good luck

p.s. ImageReady comes with Photoshop 5.5 and up.

Thanks, Ill use Photoshop Image Ready. Im too poor to buy Illustrator and Freehand. I guess I can make an attempt at getting it from Hotline, where I get most of my ****.
Alright thanks,
Paul

hey Paul - you will probably catch hell for that.

No hacking or piracy here in this forum, or so I've read...over and over and over and over again...

some things are better left uh, well, unsaid...

*and that DOESN'T MEAN MY SOFTWARE IS ILLEGAL IT IS ALL PAID FOR! for the record...*

just helping a newbie out.

Ok sorry, im not a hacker, just using Hotline. Neither did I know it was illegal. Then again, they arent gonna say it on the site i wouldnt think. Maybe I shouldnt use it anymore. Yea I dont wanna catch hell. Anyone that works for this forum, sorry, wont say anything again about it, in fact, honestly im gonna delete it when i get home. I dont wanna get busted. im only 16 ****.
wheres the best place online to buy some good apps. I only got CompUSA out here and they dont got jack.
ok thanks graphicsguy,
later
paul

I just made, www.geocities.com/elfunnio/anotherwebzine.html
I wanted to put up mp3's but i remember what happened to my last site that i did. Geocities, not only threw away my mp3's but also my entire page and screen name!!! I tried to find info about it on geocities by asking questions, but no one ever replies!!!! heh dammit.
ok well someone please reply.
later paul