image maps

i've tried using image ready... is there any way that i can make the text itself into an image map? i mean... i don't want to have to draw a rectangle around the text... or make guidelines around the text.... is there any way i can make the actual text into an image map???

I don't get the point.

You have a text. Is it pure ASCII text? Or text in a picture (as it was made in photoshop)?

What would you do with this text? Make links of it?

An image map is a picture with different <area>'s on it, each <area> having a specified size and shape, linking to a specified URL. The picture can be a map, a collage, ... If you want to specify a URL for the whole picture, you'd better use <a href=...><img src=... /></a>.
If you want some words in the text to be links to URLs, why not use standard HTML-code to realize the links (<a href=...>word1</a> and <a href=...>word2</a>).

Can you be more specific? Maybe show us the picture, or the text.

Another good (free) program for creating image maps is MapEdit (http://www.boutell.com/mapedit/).