Help please

I am a newbie trying to learn. I have the time and attitude but I do need direction for what I am trying to do. I have a photo site that I am trying to redo.

I am trying to create a page where on the bottom or top is a group of thumbnails where if you click or rollover the thumbnails, a larger image will appear on the same page. It would also be nice if the display of thumbs will only display a set number at a time with an arrow bringing in more thumbs on the same page. This last area probably needs a js.

I am not looking for someone to do this, just what I need to learn or -helpful hints or tutorials- to point me in the right direction. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I don't think this is what you are hoping for but may find it of some use. Great tutorial and great finished product
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this application will require some javascript too, for the rollover.

PHP would come in to limit the amount you display on one page.

If you want the arrow to refresh a new set of images without refreshing the actual page, you need AJAX(Here you combine PHP, javascript and XML).

It does do what I want with the rollovers but not with putting many thumbnails into the thumb container. The response after this says I probably will have to go with js. This site also has alot of coding which I was hoping an array loop would help with. Is there a way to insert the array loop into his code? (the one you are directing me to)

Photo Story Platinum is also a good photo album maker, It is free to download:
http://www.photo2vcd.com/download.html