Oops- we've all been fooled. All those recorders are one big image, and the links are done as an image map.

I wouldn't have done it that way. Repeating one small image would have made a quicker page load as I said above, and easier HTML to boot.

I have tried both ways and I find I prefer the image map. Quite a lot of software will create the map together with the appropriate html. I use Serif PhotoPlus, but I notice Open Office will do it. All you need to do then is customise the image map tag to your site and insert the links. I maintain a template for the site which makes it easy to create a new page with the menus and images already in place.

I agree the image itself is larger than that of a single recorder, but the recorder image map is only 64K which is not exactly large.

At the end of the day, it is a matter of personal preference.