newbie imagemap help

For some reason,

Sometimes my imagemap works(displays the correct links according to the map definition listed within the file) and sometimes it lists the anchorlink I included. Why can't it see the map definition??? And the anchor link HREF="_vti_bin..."(see below), I don't know what I'm supposed to put in this file. I tried copying and pasting the MAP stuff in a file but that just displays the html code when I click on the image. Please explain or at least give me some direction!

Here's an idea of the code layout I have
<MAP NAME="FrontPageMap">
<AREA SHAPE="RECT"
COORDS="200, 174, 425, 260"
HREF="/images/file1.html">
<AREA SHAPE="RECT"
COORDS="201, 90, 423, 172"
HREF="/images/file2.html">
....
</MAP>
<A HREF="_vti_bin/shtml.exe/main.html/map">
<IMG ISMAP USEMAP="#FrontPageMap"
BORDER="0"
ALT="sdlcontents.gif"
SRC="/images/sdlcontents.gif">
</A>

Thanks.

I'm not shure what you are using this link (to the _vti_bin...) for. Is this the default link for pixels that are not within one of your area's. If so try deleting this link and add a default area.

Further I'm not shure if you can use the ISMAP and USEMAP together in your IMG tag. Try them seperately and see if that works.
If I'm correct one of the two tells the imagemap to run on the client, the other tells the imagemap to run on the server, so this probably is a conflict.


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Good luck,
Bas

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E-mail me at: b.vandermeijden@pecoma.nl

[This message has been edited by MeijdenB (edited May 30, 2000).]