Virtual house tour

Main URL: www.ajc.com/living/homeandgarden/0702/18highlands.html
Popup URL: www.ajc.com/living/homeandgarden/0702/18highlands/virtualtour.html
Date: July 18, 2002

This is something different I decided to do for the living section’s centerpiece story that day, rather than just posting the images as a photo gallery. Instead, the visitor to this popup gets a front page allowing him or her to choose which rooms to view by clicking on their locations on an architectural elevation. The implementation is via a client-side image map, with a DHTML trick to make showing the red overlay not require a duplicate copy (or duplicates of certain slices) of the underlying JPEG image. This saves 20-30K of image file size.

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