[thelist] Simple code for thumbnail imagemap?

Mon Jul 16 20:22:07 CDT 2001

I wrote: 
> > I have a 'contact sheet' of thumbnails, which I turned into a
> > client side image map with "MapThis!"  It works okay having each 
> > thumbnail simply bring up the associated full-size image, but 
> > I'd like to "wrap" them by creating a common .html file where 
> > I could set a bgcolor, add a "back" button, etc.

To which Martin replied:
> One issue that immediately leaps to mind is that you would have to
> ensure that your contact sheets are always identical in layout...

Whoops, correct answer but to the wrong question.  I have my image
map page, singular.  I'm not looking for a general solution to that
problem, at least not yet!  (There are full-blown 'photo album' apps
on SourceForge -- they are intimidating as heck.)  I have a much
more modest question.  Let me explain in more detail.

My index.html has a bunch of links that look like this:

<AREA SHAPE=RECT COORDS="31,6,87,70" HREF="./pic1.jpg">

I would like to change all those HREFs to something like: 
...HREF="./show.html?pic1">  Why?  The idea is that show.html
does a few nice things in addition to simply displaying the
image, e.g.:

<body bgcolor=black>

  <hr><center>
  <img src="./" + $PARAMETER" + ".jpg"><br>
  <font color="gray">Copied right 2001 Me Myself and I</font><hr>
  <a href="./index.html"><img src="goback.gif" alt="Return"></a>

I only have to do this once assuming I find out how to get from
?pic1 in the invocation to $PARAMETER.  That is my question!

I don't know how to do that.  It's just a bit beyond the books
I have available to me.  Sorry if it seems trivial; given an
example I think I could turn this into a nice intermediate
tutorial.
-- 
Kevin 'digger' Martin <evolt at brasscannon.net>