Hi Guys. I created a site for a customer (a couple actually :p) of mine from my daytime bus. cause he had like the one a made for my own.  excelcarpentry.com is the one I'm making in progress.  I'm trying to find the easiest way to set up how the photos will scale when they are clicked (you know for a larger view).  I was going to use something like SimpleViewer to make the photo albums, but he likes the big thumbnails and I'm not getting the Pro version cause I don't know if he'll like the set up anyway. I don't want to just link the .jpeg's.  Is there any way to make something nice w/o making a html (for background color, table centering etc.) page for each photo?  Maybe there is something like SimplViewer that's just html/js based?

Another option if you don't have too many thumbnails is to show the pictures in an iFrame on the same page. Use the hyperlink target as the name of the iFrame.

Almost right... your hyperlink on the thumbnail has an extra slash in it after the ".php". It should be

http://excelcarpentry.com/php_test/showphoto.php?file1=photo1.jpg

You're welcome and glad it's working. Don't forget to add your ALT text for the search engines