How do I create a picture at the top of my Forum (category)?

[HogwartsAcademy]

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How can I create a picture or HTML text box to add an image map at the top of every forum? I really need this so if you could help me out that would be terrific.

I want something like this:



Note: I'm NOT talking about a WEBSITE Forum, I'm speaking in terms of Category forums. Like forums that are placed under categorys..

[HogwartsAcademy]

The above way only works on general Categories, atleast the way I did it. I need it for the respective forum they click on.

[nextlevelgaming]

It will work with category, forums,topics, whatever you modify it for

[HogwartsAcademy]

okay awesome is there a way i can make the picture an image map instead of a regular image?

[nextlevelgaming]

What ever is inside of the div elements will show, even movies (example <object></object> ) anything truely

[HogwartsAcademy]

if I can give you the links for the codes for the image map.. can you do it for me? I'm sorry but it's because you lost me near after you posted the codes.. i'm quite confused.

[nextlevelgaming]

I'll need the full code for the image map and i'll give it a whirl

[HogwartsAcademy]

Problem is, there's an image (map) for every forum. Lol.

[nextlevelgaming]

Good job rideem, i believe that would work much more effiecient than my multiple javascript hey i can only make do with the knowledge I have right.

[HogwartsAcademy]

Rideem, your script worked fantastic. Bloody fantastic. That's all I have to say. No wait, one more thing, THANK YOU! Thank you as well, nextlevelgaming, you really helped me too, both of you.

All I have to do if find a reliable image map program/site to create my maps. Every one I use either doesn't support image hosting or is broken... any suggestions?

[SLGray]

Is this solved now?

[runawayhorses]

You don't need any special image hosting for image maps you can upload your image map to your forums host (serving), because the image used for the image map is nothing more than a regular jpg, or png, or gif,, etc. What makes it an image map is the coding involved, and the coding is not uploaded it is applied to the image the same way you would apply any html coding.

Here is an example of an image map coding at the bottom of this posted message. You need an image editor to locate where you want the links (coordinates) to be on the map and replace the coordinates that are in this code with your link coordinates. You add the image URL and the Link URL's to this code, everything goes in this code example. You need to fill in or replace everything in this code, and if you need to add more links, then simply add more lines of coding in the example at the very bottom of this post.

You can use an image editor like "IrfanView" to display your image coordinates. Every image editor has its own way of displaying image coordinates. Just google how to make an image map with with your editor. In a nutshell you load the image in the editor, click on the top of the image where you want the link to be and it will display the coordinates of that place on the image, it will be two numbers like this example, 255, 327. Then you click at the bottom the image where you want the link to be and it will display two more set of coordinates. Then your entire coordinates for that place on the image might look something like this: 255,327,168,55. You would place those coordinates in the code.

IrfanView is free its what I use to make image maps:
http://www.irfanview.com/

You add the URL to the image map in this coding, the links to where you want the destinations to go, and the coordinates and titles.

Full image map code:

Code:

<img src="URL OF IMAGE MAP GOES HERE" width="696" height="30" border="0" alt="" usemap="#NAME OF IMAGE MAP GOES HERE" />

<map name="NAME OF IMAGE MAP GOES HERE">
    <area shape="rect" coords="10,4,107,23" href="LINK TO DESTINATION GOES HERE" title="" alt="" />
    <area shape="rect" coords="116,5,238,23" href="LINK TO DESTINATION GOES HERE" title="" alt="" />
    <area shape="rect" coords="248,5,350,22" href="LINK TO DESTINATION GOES HERE" title="" alt="" />
    <area shape="rect" coords="360,4,456,22" href="LINK TO DESTINATION GOES HERE" title="" alt="" />
    <area shape="rect" coords="466,4,568,21" href="LINK TO DESTINATION GOES HERE" title="" alt="" />
    <area shape="rect" coords="580,4,651,21" href="LINK TO DESTINATION GOES HERE" title="" alt="" />
        <area shape="default" nohref="nohref" title="" alt=""/>

</map>

Extra link example code:

Code:

<area shape="rect" coords="248,5,350,22" href="LINK TO DESTINATION GOES HERE" title="" alt="" />