[kping]

Hey guys im a learner web developer and im creating a website for a good friend of mine whos an up and coming author, im looking at creating a website with image maps that mouseover and give a description of whats on the page to the right of the image like the maps on HERE i belive this is javascript could somebody give me some sort of insight on how to do this

if its in the wrong section i apologise

Cheers Dan

[End User]

They aren't image maps, they're rollovers. And thanks for directing us to a page with a pop-up ad. Much appreciated.

[TwoD]

The basic idea is simple. Use the onmouseover and onmouseout events of an img or div tag to call functions which change the contents of another div element.
There are many tutorials about creating rollover effects on the web which can tell you all about this in greater detail.
I also suggest that you examine the code of the page you linked to, to find out exactly which code runs when the mouse is moved across the images. You should be able to quickly sort out the relevant functions and step through them line by line.
Start by finding the image tags in the HTML and look at what runs on the onmouse... events.

It's always good to have a good reference document at hand when learning things. If you don't have one, check out the MSDN link in my sig.