Clickable Graphic or Imagemap

An image or graphic with areas defined to allow a user to click on them, an imagemap can have many different areas which are hyperlinks or "hot." These clickable areas are called links and can take you to different sections of a Web site or to other Web sites.

Imagemaps are frequently used to allow users to click on a city or region which will then bring up information or another Web page about that place. Other common uses include menu bars and site maps.

In education, imagemaps can be particularly useful to show a process graphically. Users can get more information about a particular step in the process by clicking on the part of the imagemap that represents that step.

The OWL uses an imagemap to show the process of submitting a paper to the OWL.