Introduction to Image Maps and Flash Image Maps
HTML, CSS, and hot spots are defined by using x and y coordinates. Experienced web designers are able to make an image maps by hand, using a simple text editor such as NotePad, however doing so requires that the web developer knows HTML coding and also requires them to know the coordinates of the areas that they wish to place over the image. As a result, most image maps coded by hand are simple polygons and not very useful for business owners who often do not have advance coding knowledge.
Creating image maps in a text editor requires time and effort, there are many applications that allow the web designer to quickly and easily create image maps. One example of these is Dreamweaver which is a commercial software from Adobe Inc., it is a web page editor with built-in image map tools.
In recent years, more and more web developers are using Flash to create image
