Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 05/20/06 02:35

kburnam@gmail.com wrote:
> Background:
>
> I am creating a website for a local doctor (vet) for free - he is a
> friend of the family and since I've made a few simple sites before I
> acknowledged his request for a website by telling him I'd whip him one
> up by two weeks from now. He cannot sell prescription medicine on ebay,
> so he would like me to create a site for him. I want to try something
> new - image maps.

image maps for basically the whole page? You would not do your friend
any service unless all his customers are on broadband....
>
> A friend of mine told me I could use this psd template to make the
> site:
>
> http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/5476/untitled7lh.jpg
>
> Obviously, I will need to edit out the text via layers in photoshop and
> replace them with the various types of medicine he offers for sale. My
> question to you, is should I use Dreamweaver to create the image maps?
>
> Also, lets say I have a link to a narrative on a cat medicine. Can I
> 'blank' out the middle of the psd file and fill it with text for the
> description or do I have to keep the picture in its entirety?

If you were just putting up a basic site the tells location, hours, and
a bit about the place that is fine for novices, however once you add
selling stuff and client financial information, well that is a whole
other story.

You will need some kind of shopping cart, and secure checkout for the
clients. One can script all these themselves but again this is not for a
novice! If you do not know what you are doing, you could put your
friend's clients' private information at risk. I am sure he has gotten
beaucoup pamphlets from his merchant services about penalties and fines
if you leak customers' financial info.

From your question I can garner that your are not up to the task. If
you really want to help your friend, offer to do him a personal site and
urge him to hire someone professional to do a commercial site.

Sorry just being straight with you especial when the product is
prescription drugs...

> Should I say the image mapped website as png or jpg?
>
> Please help ! Thanks !
>


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Take care,

Jonathan
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