Almost everyone who has ever browsed the World Wide Web will have encountered pages full of small "thumbnail" images, which are linked to bigger copies of the same images. MapMaker generates those thumbnail images, but unlike most of the galleries on the Web, MapMaker puts all of its thumbnails on to one large JPEG image. It also provides the HTML code that identifies the exact size and location of each thumbnail within this Map image, and will copy this code to the Windows Clipboard so that web designers can simply paste it into their pages.
There are things you can do with MapMaker beyond its original design. For instance, what if your gallery contains links not to big images but to video clips? Well, you will need an image from each clip with which to create the thumbnail. Then put those images in MapMaker's Thumbnail List. After the Map Image has been created, edit the HTML so that the links point to the video clips. Then you can delete the stills if you wish.
MapMaker generates HTML code, and allows you to edit it, but you should take note that MapMaker is not an HTML editor. The HTML it produces is intended to be transferred via the Windows clipboard into your web page. The HTML code is supported by all graphical browsers. By default, MapMaker also includes code for browsers that aren't loading images for whatever reason. But this code can be removed by the user - see MapMaker's documentation for full instructions.
MapMaker is free to anyone who wants it. Simply download the Zip file (195,025 bytes) and install it on your PC. You do need to be running Windows, but that's the only requirement. Should you ever wish to uninstall MapMaker, all you need to do is delete the zip file and the four files it contains. It is recommended that you create a new folder on your system and install MapMaker into it. Then uninstalling is simply a matter of deleting the folder. MapMaker does not do anything to your registry or store any information of any kind anywhere on your system.