Jim Stewart wrote:

I'm looking for some simple and hopefully free
software that can take a group of image files,
create thumbnails of them and create an http
page that will show the thumbnails and load the
big image when the thumbnail is clicked.


A friend just told me about Web album generator
I downloaded it and tried it out It's pretty limited
but on the other hand it is simple to use.
Sounds like it would work for you.
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