Click thumbnail in one frame, load image in table cell or frame

[CompleteNewb]

Using FP2003, website hosted on windows box w/ FP extensions enabled.

I've tried using the FP photo gallery, and it's just too twitchy (arrows to
scroll through thumbs works once, then doesn't work after loading a couple
big images, etc.). Plus, the design of it is nowhere near what I'm looking
for, and sifting through the code to alter it seems like it'll take me
forever.

I'd like to have a frame on the left w/ thumbnails running vertically w/
scrollbar (I figured out how to do this, and it's done. I used an inline
frame, but I'm open to whatever complete solution that accomplishes all my
goals, I'm not married to the inline frame, it's just a step I was able to
take in what seems to be the right direction). When a thumbnail is clicked,
I'd like the larger image to load in either 1) A table cell in the right
part of the htm page OR 2) in a separate frame located to the right of the
thumbnail frame on the same page.

I'm not stuck on any particular method here; I have no problem using frames,
tables, java, whatever. Basically, I just want a scrollable column of
thumbnails on the left, and when one is clicked, the large image loads to
the right (large images are variably sized, by the way; they're not all 500
x 500 pixels, or whatever). However, I have over 50 images, so I'd prefer
not to do the "workaround" of having 50 different htm pages that are
identical except for the larger image that's in the right-hand part.

A complication: I'd like the large image that loads to have a 1 px border
around it of my specified color. I've tried altering the border of the
frame the big images load in, but I don't know how to do this. Even if I
did, the target frame doesn't increase or descrease in size depending on the
image loaded into it; it either gets the scroll bars or, if I disable
scrollbars, a very small segment of the image. I also realize I can do the
"workaround" of making all the images have a border around them before I
optimize them for the web, but I'd prefer to avoid that also. I mean,
c'mon, it's 2007 here. There's gotta be a way to do this.

Any help, advice, code snippets, etc. are appreciated, and thanks for
reading.

 

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Don't use an inline frame for that, use a real frame set.

You will need:

your frame file (defines the frames)

the menu file (the small frame with thumbnails)

the content frame (you can make an "intro" file to load by default (using
the file at top), then just link directly to the image files.

Use the FrontPage frames wizard for this, it is by far the easiest way to
get this done without knowing a lot about it.

Next, open your menu file individually, insert each picture, use the
thumbnail tool. Save all the thumbnails.

That's basically it. Other tweaking may be necessary, but you won't know
what that is until you get it set up and look at it.

I used the method above for years until my friends all got digital cameras
and were producing images too fast for me to bother with it. Now we use a
shared picassaweb.google.com account to manage the image gallery.

I agree, the image gallery thing is twitchy and unusable.