Plenty of inexpensive imagemapping tools are available. One nice one is Mapedit, by Boutell.Com. This is shareware that can be downloaded as a 30-day trial version and as of this writing can be purchased for $25. It runs on just about every platform including Windows 95/98/NT, Mac, and UNIX varieties.



With Mapedit, you define regions right on top of your image using either a circle drawing object, a rectangle drawing object, or a free-form drawing tool. For each region you define, you have a dialog box that requests the URL for the link, alt text for a text description of the link destination, and a target name, if the destination of the link is supposed to populate a frame.