Zooming

[penmore]

Layers as Acorn suggests. I've done this here www.gwpriester.com/Logo-Design.html The small thumbnails link via mouse over to the layers. The image that appears to be a mouse over for the thumbnails is actually on the layer itself.

Excellent example of how to do it in Xara

[pauland]

Mouse over sounds ideal. The people with phones and tablets will hate you forever though.. ..and I drag my finger over the screen and pictures pop-up? Nah, I'd rather choose what I want to see with a good old-fashioned click.

I checked-out Gary's design and it's quite clever.

On mobile it uses click to update. On desktop, the mouse-over is there, so the best of both worlds on Gary's site.

I would say that Gary's mouse-over technique only works because his display area for the large view is below the icon set. The mouse-over would be totally impractical for displaying images over the gallery icons.

Click always works, but if you do as Gary did, that's cool too.