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mchorley7
mchorley7
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November 8, 2017
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Creating Hot Spots in Emails

  • November 8, 2017
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So I dropped an image into Dreamweaver from Photoshop, and I'm wanting to create HotSpots so that when customers click on certain images they are then taken to certain URLs. I built the image and input a link, however when I drop it into Salesforce Marketing Cloud's email studio it has the link for the entire image and not just the Hotspots. Anyone have an idea of what I'm doing wrong or links to resources regarding HotSpots? As you can probably tell I'm very new to this so any help is greatly appreciated.

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Nancy OShea
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Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 8, 2017

Image Maps are a bad idea for several reasons.  Mostly because they are not responsive. 

Image Map Support in HTML Email

If you must use image links, slice them up in Photoshop and save each graphic separately.  Don't forget to add ALT text to each image  for the email clients that suppress images for security reasons.

HTML E-Mail & Newsletter Blasts - https://alt-web.com/

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
mchorley7
mchorley7Author
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November 9, 2017

Thanks! As my focus is mainly around emails, I'll be properly using Dreamweaver and its functionalities as how they relate to Photoshop. I've been looking for some good Dreamweaver CC 2018 tutorials but haven't found any. Any thoughts or links that could point me in the right direction?

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 9, 2017

DW is web page authoring software not email creation software.  Emails are nothing like modern web pages.

There are no tutorials I know of for creating Emails in DW CC.  You will need coding skills and a good understanding of what works and doesn't work in email clients like Outlook, Gmail, Windows Mail, etc....

Best advice:  Start with an industry tested, table-based  Email Template.  See link below.

Free Responsive Email Templates

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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