HTML help for new site?

[draconis]

I've seen web pages with photos set up a particular way, and I'd like to do something similar.

What I'm trying to duplicate is the sites where you have a row of thumbnail-sized photos, and if you click on one of them, a full-sized version appears in a designated spot on the same page. Click another thumbnail, and the previous full-sized image is replaced with the new one.

Can anyone point me at information on how to do this?

Thanks!

Comments

[miintikwa.livejournal.com]

My hubby says there are a couple different ways to do it- which one are you looking for?

Frames, javascript, just rows of pics on one side and a big pic in the center, etc?

[jcbdragon.livejournal.com]

I've got a format that I'm trying to keep for each of the pages within the site, which is at www.sakarikempo.com, so that kind of lets out frames.

I don't know javascript, but if someone can give me a clear-enough template, I can plug in the values for the individual .jpg files.

I'm basically wanting to set up something that looks like:

[thumb1] [thumb2] [thumb3] ... [thumbN]

--- ---
| |
| |
| full-size pic |
| |
| |
--- ---


and possibly even have more than one set like that on the same page, if that's possible.

[miintikwa.livejournal.com]

C says "Putting more than one set per page could make it too cluttered, from my experience."

And he says the program Dreamweaver has an easy template for it, if you have access to programs to use to plug things in. Let me know if you don't. :)

[raine-wynd.livejournal.com]

Dreamweaver 8 has an option under the "Command" menu to "create a web photo album". Using this requires that Fireworks also be installed, but the long and short of it is: you have an image that's linked to a second, larger one. It can be linked in such a way that on the mouseclick, the larger picture is shown automatically via a Javascript. I haven't had a need to do so because, well, it's just as easy to link to Flickr or my Kodak EasyShare Gallery, and if I feel like I need to create a web album, I use the Dreamweaver command option.

There are freeware/shareware programs that are available (such as Gallery on sourceforge.net) if you don't feel like getting into the coding aspect of creating said web photo album.