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Hello,

I have a basic question, which i hope someone here may be able to help me with.
I am currently designing a site and have chosen to create a site about modern abstract artists. The site will have a short profile on each artist, and will have small thumbnails of thier works, which when clicked should open a larger version of the image on the same page.

However, i cannot work out how to do this, im sure its simple, but the only way i can think of is with framesets, which i don't want to use. All of the sites content is stored on a database, and im using ASP, so im wondering if there is

(a) some simple HTML/javascript i can use, or
(b) somewhere in Dreamweaver where i can do this, or
(c) some ASP code i can use.

adeniyi,

You might want to look at LightBox - http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/ - once you are comfortable with version 1, u could then graduate to version 2 which has "next" and "previous" button (visible when you hover over the left or right sides of each photo).

You would start off displaying all the art work in a gallery fashion, then once clicked, lightbox takes over. There are other techniques, but I prefer lightbox cos of its eye candy factor.

Check out an implementation of lightbox 2 on a site I did a while ago: http://ibompeoplescongress.org/ipc-photo-gallery/ipc-jazz-night-photos.php

I hope this helps.

Adeniyi, like u said its very easy to accomplish with dreamweaver, all u need to do is to

1) set up your database including fields for both the thumb and large images
2) make sure u dont set the field type as blob as u will only be saving the path to your images
3) set up your database connection in dreamweaver
4) next read through the master Detail set tutorial in the dreaweaver help file.

if u still need help let me know.

cordially,