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Calendars for the Web(tm) 1.0 allows you to create hyperlinked calendars, outputing full HTML pages with embedded clickable client side image maps. You can even choose to add a Java applet to the HTML pages that are created. Download free demo version.
Clickable Image Map Maker. This web page allows the user to select an image file on his own local hard drive, then creates a second page using that image, and allows the user to very quickly generate the HTML code for an imagemap to be used in his own files. It also offers some handy pop-up menus to speed the process of coding the actual href. Complicated maps can be created in less than a minute (no kidding). Requires a Javascript and frames capable browser, designed and tested on a Mac using Netscape Navigator.
Client-Side Image Map Editor (CSIME) is a standalone Java application for maintaining the HTML tags that form a client-side image map. The CSIME allows the creation of RECT, CIRCLE, and POLY regions overlaying a GIF or JPEG image. Cool features include 1) use your Netscape bookmarks file, 2) import a client-side image map straight from a web server, 3) export to server-side image map format, 4) fading an image to allow easier editting, and more. Written in Java, the CSIME is platform independent (runs on UNIX, Mac, Win95/NT, OS/2, etc). The CSIME is freeware.
Glorglox is a replacement for NCSA's imagemap. It allows you to make imagemaps with irregular and/or discontiguous areas, and is much more flexible for some applications.
Imaptool is for creating client-side image maps. It's for the X Window System and tested with Linux 1.2.13.
I-View is small yet powerful off-line HTML browser. Designed specially for HTML authors, Internet & CD-ROM publishers. Supports imagemaps. I-View is available for Windows. (about 400K)
Mapedit is a WYSIWYG editor for imagemaps, available for Microsoft Windows and the X Window System. Use Mapedit to generate, or convert to, NCSA, CERN, or client-side map files.
Mapmaker starts with a directory full of different sized images, and uses xv and several ppm utilities to create an imagemap. The imagemap is an esthetically pleasing matrix of thumbnails which expand to the full picture when selected.
MapMaker for Macintosh is a full featured imagemap utility which can create and open NCSA, CERN and Clientside maps. It supports both GIFs and JPEGs and has some additional useful features, such as a testing mode, zooming, onMouseOver-support and much more.
Map This - freeware 32 bit application for creating, editing, and converting map files. Supports NCSA, CERN, and Client Side Image Maps. Handles both GIF and JPG images. Runs under Win 3.1/3.11 with Win32s installed; Win95 and WinNT.
WebMap - The original macintosh Imagemap editor.
Web Hotspots 2.0 is an image map editor for Windows supporting both server and client-side image maps, multiple image file formats including GIF and JPEG and more microscopic (zoomed-in) editing, advanced shape manipulation, subtractive regions (cutouts), starter host page generation, insertion of host (i.e., IMG) entries into existing pages, and live testing for Windows Sockets 1.1 compliant configurations.
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