Image maps for wordpress.com
It is possible to add image maps in a wordpress.com blog even though the official wordpress.com Support Doc says otherwise.
What is an image map?
The best way to understand what an image map is is by viewing an example.
Please view the image above. Put the cursor on the text links (they are blue). You will be able to click on them and go to the links!
BUT it is an image. Put the cursor anywhere in the image (except on the blue text links), right-click and view image.
You see an image that looks just like the above image but the blue text links aren’t clickable. See below:
Official definitions: Image Map
In HTML a imagemap is made of the actual image, that is embedded with the
-Tag. The image gets simultaneously the attibute usemap. The imagemap comprise
-tags, which defines the fields with the weblinks. These are similar to the -Tag defining which URL should be opened.
Definition and Usage
The <map> tag is used to define a client-side image-map. An image-map is an image with clickable areas.
The name attribute is required in the map element. This attribute is associated with the <img>’s usemap attribute and creates a relationship between the image and the map.
The map element contains a number of area elements, that defines the clickable areas in the image map.
Browser Support
The <map> tag is supported in all major browsers.
-From w3schools
How to create an image map
Try the Google search for the how-to: How to create an image map
Try free online image mapping programmes:
Download a software that creates image maps
Check out this Google search: download softwares to create image maps
Or try these softwares:
Question
So which one of these tools listed so far do I recommend?
Answer
None of them!
Why?
Because I haven’t really tested any of these tools. Sorry. Maybe you can test some and enlighten me! 
Which image mapping tool do I use and why?
Well, I have my own favourite free online image mapping tool.
I use Kwout for all my image mapping needs at wordpress.com. It is so easy and I have gotten so used to it that I didn’t even bother to test any other tool (now you know the reason!).
Click our bookmarklet on a web page you wish to quote, and the screenshot of the entire web page will be popped up. (The size of the screenshot can be selected from small, medium or large.) By dragging a mouse on the screenshot, select an area you wish to quote, and click the “Cut Out” button. Then the area you selected will be cut out as an image with an image map (hyperlinks). Finally, the embed code, which is used to post the image (with the image map) to your web site, will be displayed. In addition, you can post it directly to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and so on.
- From Kwout
Kwout is super-easy. Try it for yourself!
Psst: a secret
I will soon be posting interesting wordpress.com tips on how to use Kwout’s image mapping tool creatively in a wordpress.com blog. If you want to be an early bird, subscribe to the rss feed of my wordpress tips.
Testing image map codes in a comment:
Netty Gritty via kwout
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Really great news…
Thanks, My friend