anybody know how to make a website for a scavenger hunt or something like that.


hidden objects, etc. or if they could guide me?


im' not sure where this topic belongs.

thanks.

do you mean like letterwealth's halloween hunt? to create a page similar like that one you just have to create a table with background picture of your choice, then assigning links to some smaller tables / table data <td>... but that's not too good because we can click and drag the whole screen and the links will be revealed (since the links were put into <td> so it's "highliteable"...

so the better way is to assign some hotspots (and the shape doesn't have to be a rectangle) to the image file, so that we cannot highlite the whole page to reveal the links... but we must move the mouse slowly on the picture instead, to find the hotspot...

and maybe there're some other better methods...

I think there're a lot of tutorials on google about creating hotspots on image

You mean an imagemap? Do a search on google for "image map help" and you'll get lots of instructions for that.

thanks!

i'll check out google now.

You can also do hidden links by using css. .

Here is an easy to use image map maker...

http://www.cutemap.com/cutemap/

you can download a free trial!

All you would have to do is take a picture that you want to use and it will help you with all the links and stuff that go inside of it!

lol..I found it back when I was a Neopets freak and used it to make shop maps for the guild I ran! It's very easy to use!!

well with my purchase of ecf lol i'm short on cash so i'll have to hurry and use the free trial lol


thx

hmm... imagine if you had bought it for $20,000 .. now that wouldn't been breaking ya, eh?!

good luck with the image maps though. when i made mine, i used AOL Press, it's awesome for people who don't have a clue... but ya learn from it to!

I have a free html editor that I use to make image maps. It works great.
Let me look in my programs and see what it is called... one second...

SoftIce EZpad 3.0
http://www.mmedia.is/ezpad/

You can make the hotspots a rectangle, square or circle. They are drag and droppable in the program and can be resized. You can also choose the target. I like my links on maps like this to open in a new window.

Here is a quick one I just whipped up using EZpad.

http://www.listcraze.com/imagemap.html

Look in the water for a big hotspot, in the fog at the top of the hills for a little one, and on the side of the clear hill for another little one.

The one in the water is a rectangle, the one on the top of the foggy hill is a rectangle and the one on the side of the clear hill is a circle.

The circle and the foggy hilltop rectangle have borders. The one in the water does not.

Odd thing seems to be that the ones with the borders on click the open in new window targetting does not work. Of course I have an old version. *blush* perhaps the updated version of 3.0 will be better.

Hope this helps you. I personally love this program for making image maps and it is free to boot.

Heidi