Just finished this tonight. Feel free to copy the markup and modify it for your own use.
Link to the demo after the jump
In the before times, it was socially acceptable to use an image as a link. It was simple enough: stick an image tag inside of an anchor tag. Now that might be fine for people with a head full of eyeballs but bots and people using text-only browsers suffer.
By using a sprite, I’m making 1 http request instead of 9. Here’s what my sprite looks like:
Spy on me