Photography site - layout pictures or use extension

I am wanting to do a small photographic site (using Studio MX) whereby
on the left-hand side there is a grid of say 25 thumbnail pics (5 x 5).
When you click (or hover) on the thumbnail, it would then show the
enlarged pic on the right-hand side of the page.
Is there an extension that would help make this easier to do?
Now to make it even more difficult, I was hoping to have the 25
thumbnails be chosen randomly from a pool of the total pics on the site
(e.g. 100 - hey, it's a small site) and when the page is refreshed the 5
x 5 grid changes as well (and still, when you click/hover on the
thumbnail it is shown enlarged).
I am not the most advanced DW user so any pointers, tips, examples,
extensions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you

©® wrote:
> I am wanting to do a small photographic site (using Studio MX) whereby
> on the left-hand side there is a grid of say 25 thumbnail pics (5 x 5).
> When you click (or hover) on the thumbnail, it would then show the
> enlarged pic on the right-hand side of the page.
> Is there an extension that would help make this easier to do?
> Now to make it even more difficult, I was hoping to have the 25
> thumbnails be chosen randomly from a pool of the total pics on the site
> (e.g. 100 - hey, it's a small site) and when the page is refreshed the 5
> x 5 grid changes as well (and still, when you click/hover on the
> thumbnail it is shown enlarged).
> I am not the most advanced DW user so any pointers, tips, examples,
> extensions would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.mbstevens.com/howtothumb/
....may be of some help. I'm not much taken with scripts that automate
thumbnails, because in most cases each image needs its own particular
care and feeding.

©® wrote:
(snip)
> Now to make it even more difficult, I was hoping to have the 25
> thumbnails be chosen randomly from a pool of the total pics on the site
> (e.g. 100 - hey, it's a small site) and when the page is refreshed the 5
> x 5 grid changes as well (and still, when you click/hover on the
> thumbnail it is shown enlarged).

©®,

Um, I think there's a logic problem here. If the set of thumbnails is
always randomly selected, what happens if I come to the site a second
time, looking for a particular image that I recall from my first visit?

There's a 1-in-4 chance that the image I want appears on the page. In
theory, if I refresh the page 3 times I should have a good chance of
seeing it, but Murphy's Law states that I'll have to refresh several
more times than that, with no guarantee that the desired image will EVER
appear.

Randomizing can be good if you are just trying to create variety on
consecutive visits, but if someone is actually looking for something, a
logically-ordered arrangement would be better.

Chris Beall