Is it along the corridor then down the stairs?
Tuesday, 20 March 2007, 12:26Oh man oh man oh man coordinates. I started off with an already-completed map, but then I had to add Ireland, so of course the dimensions of the image changed...
If you don't know how imagemaps work in HTML: very briefly, you tell it coordinates, counted from the top left (so 2,4 is two right and four down from the top left corner), of the various bits of the image you want to be 'clickable'. It counts from the left. I'd just added 70 extra pixels to the left.
In adjusting the coords to take that into account, I took the opportunity to go through and make corrections or tweaks to virtually all of the areas (fixing some that were out of position by some way, correcting shapes or making them bigger so people would have a chance of finding them with the cursor).
Fiddly, time-consuming and cosmetic, but it feels like honest work, our map is now significantly better than it was before I got my hands on it, and that's what makes me happy.
What makes me grin is when people from other departments 'unofficially borrow' things I've done. (We had unofficially borrowed the earlier version of this imagemap.) (It's not so amusing when we discover people unofficially borrowing images we paid for and not even including the mandatory copyright notices, though...)
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