was this image made in flash if so what program and how was it able to be saved as a png ive mad something simliar that i wanna use as a sig useing Swish Max but i cant save as png gif or jpg etc just swf

if not made in flash how did he make the links clickable

The image at the top of the forums IS a image file.

However , The image at the top of the Messenger Plus! Website is a flash file.

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Originally posted by NoName
The image at the top of the forums IS a image file.

However , The image at the top of the Messenger Plus! Website is a flash file.

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Its called a image map in HTML.

If you were to look into the forum source code you would fined :

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    <map name="GFDDMap1"><area href="http://www.msgplus.net" shape="rect" coords="8, 7, 225, 47" title="Go to MsgPlus.net Home Page" /></map>
    <img border="0" src="images/topleft.png" width="337" height="59" usemap="#GFDDMap1" /></td>
    <td align="right" background="images/mainnavbg.gif">
    <map name="GFDDMap0">
    <area href="http://www.msgplus.net/news.php" shape="rect" coords="61, 35, 106, 58" title="News" />
    <area href="http://www.msgplus.net/features.php" shape="rect" coords="106, 35, 169, 58" title="Features" />

    <area href="http://www.msgplus.net/download.php" shape="rect" coords="169, 34, 240, 58" title="Download" />
    <area href="http://www.msgplus.net/help.php" shape="rect" coords="239, 34, 277, 58" title="Help" />
    <area href="http://www.msgplus.net/community.php" shape="rect" coords="278, 34, 356, 58" title="Community" />
    <area href="http://www.msgplus.net/promotion.php" shape="rect" coords="355, 34, 431, 58" title="Promotion" />
    </map>

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by any chance how do u find the coordinates ???(im new to all this)

For a rectangle shape, the coordinates are entered like this: x1,y1,x2,y2

x1 and y1 = top left corner
x2 and y2 = bottom right corner

So just open up the image in PSP or PhotoShop or any good graphics program, find the rectangle you want to add a link to, and hover over each of those 2 corners. In the status bar of the program, you should see a pair of numbers that change when you move your mouse. Those are the x,y coordinates of the pixel that your cursor is currently on.

If the top left corner is at 20,35 and the bottom right corner is at 100,60 then the HTML would be like...

<area href="http://example.com/" shape="rect" coords="20,35,100,60">

Of course, there are better and more precise ways to find coordinates, but I'm too lazy to write more.

ok thx im think im just gonna do it in flash to lazy to even find what u said

Meh, flash r flashy, hence Flash. Duh!
It would be better has an image in all honesty, because that way it doesn't piss people off as much. And if you're lazy, then use the image map that NoName provided.

IF you want to do the same thing and don't know HTML, Fireworks will generate a script for that itself, as long as you create an image with slices (if you don't know what I mean then just forget it )

i know what u mean by slices but i dont have Fireworks for some reason it wont work on my comp

flash looks better it has fading niceness