Melissa:
To create the effect you describe in your post, I would
suggest the following approach:
1. as stated before place your images into some sort of
folder structure that makes sense to you. For instance,
you could have one folder labled "thumbnails" to hold the
smaller sized version of your pictures. You could have
another folder labeled "large" that would contain the
larger size of your pictures.
2. to create these pictures for your website, you must
decide on what physical size is appropriate for the
thumbnails and larger pictures. As far a thumbnails go,
you should make them large enough to be distinguishable
but small enough to download fairly rapidly by a visitor
who is using a dialup (ie, telephone connection). That
said, I usually go with a picture width of 150 pixels. As
far as the larger size pictures, you have to decide on a
width here as well. The controlling factor there is the
width of the visitor's browser window in which they view
the pictures. If you make the picture wider than the
window, the visitor will have to scroll horizontally in
order to view your picture. To avoid this for most
visitors, I make my pictures 750 pixels in width.
To create picture files of the above dimensions I use
Photoshop Elements, a so called graphics program. There
are other programs you can find at your favorite software
store that will accomplish the same thing. Instructions
on how to use those programs is beyond the scope of this
newsgroup.
By the way for ease of maintenance, I keep the file names
for the thumbnail and large pictures the same. Storing in
different folders distinguishes them for you.
3. I then create a web page in Front Page that is based
on a table (see Front Page help for Tables) with cells
into which I place the individual thumbnail sized
pictures. I also include a description for each picture
within the table structure.
4. I next create a "template" page in Front Page for the
large size picture. I also create this page using tables.
In one of the table cells I create a navigation structure
(Previous photo, Next photo, First photo, Last photo).
5. Once I have my template looking they way I want, I
then make as many copies of the above template as
required to accomodate my large pictures by File | Save
As under a different filename than I have selected for
the template itself (so I can use the template again if I
decide to add more pictures to my site). Again for ease
of maintance, I name these with the same names as the
picture files.
6. After the thumbnail page and large picture pages have
been created, I then create the hyperlinks that tie them
all together.
If you would care to view my site, the URL is:
http://www.powdervalleyshadowbrook.org/cbw/pictures/thumbn
ails/index.htm
