In this article, we will learn how to use the GD library to create an index image that contains thumbnails of images in a given directory.

This tutorial is an educational resource intended to provide assistance with the implementation of imagemaps. We hope that you can benefit from its presence and that we may benefit from yours. This page is not under construction; however, more information is needed to make it complete. If, after reading this page, you are able to contribute to its content you are invited to do so. You may not find the answer to all of your questions here, but it should give you something to chew on.

This document is a step-by-step tutorial for designing and serving graphical maps of information resources with either the external imagemap CGI script or with the built in imagemap support in NCSA HTTPd 1.5. Through such a map, users can be provided with a graphical overview of any set of information resources; by clicking on different parts of the overview image, they can transparently access any of the information resources (possibly spread out all across the Internet).

This page provides assistance with the implementation of imagemaps. It provides short answsers to basic questions and external links for tools and scripts for creating imagemaps.