image maps vs. sliced images (was: RE: [thelist] Mac tools)

[Erika Meyer]

I'm not out here saying "image maps are bad" -- I've just found that when 
I've made them and/or had to maintain sites with them, they are less 
flexible than an image sliced and set in a table... so I'm wondering what 
the advantages of them are.

Once I built an image map... and later they wanted rollovers.
Then I had an image map... and later they wanted to drop some of the links off.
In both cases, the changes would have been easier if I'd used slices 
instead of an image map.

So I'm wondering in which cases the image map is the better way to go.
I realize that question/comment was veering off-topic, but my brain works 
that way sometimes.

Erika

At 09:06 AM 2/27/01 -0800, you wrote:
> >>>Why would you make image maps?  I'm just wondering...<<<
>
>Ok, stupid question... why *wouldn't* I make an image map if it suited my
>purpose and was built efficiently?