Trouble creating photo page

I am trying to build my very first web page. iWeb seems very easy to use except I can not build a photo page like I want.
I would like to have a main photo page,that when you click on a pic it redirects(hyperlink???) to another page with more photos of that topic. I have tried 2 different methods mentioned in iWeb help.
First created a photo album in iPhoto and dragged in to the phot page template, but it copied all photos to that page. Secondly I tried to select a photo, and thru the inspector panel click on enable as a hyperlink, but while that picture is selected it will not allow my to do anything in the inspector panel (the link section)I am pretty sure what I want to accomplish is possible w/ iweb,iWeb updat says I am using the ltest version so i don't thing updating anythig will work.
What did I do wrong???
iMac 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.4)
iMac 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Yes I am sure they won't move...at least how i tried. I tried to click and hold to drag, but that wouldn't work. I have tried right click and that didn't work . Then I thought, well I really don't like how my albums are arrainged so I tried to delete the thumbnail and that wouldn't work(No delete option in the drop down menu)mainly because every time I tried it took me to my link(Photo page) So tonight when I get on my mac(@ work now on a PC)I thought about trying to "disable all hyperlinks" in the Inspector panel, to see if that will allow me to move or delete thumbnails. Resizing them works OK .

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Wyodor wrote:
So basically you're saying you do not like the default features of iWeb, MobileMe Gallery and all that, and you actually want a custom website. If that's the case, the short answer is: design it yourself. But it requires study, effort, finding solutions, practice, finding alternatives and more study. It's called webdesign. And for the most parts, you gave the answers yourself. So do what you want.
To be fair -- and perhaps my original intent wasn't clear -- I was really just trying to get clarification on a few of those iWeb, MobileMe Gallery, and related-app defaults, especially the current extent and limitations of their configurability. I stress "current", since any application default -- and whatever options exist to change its parameters -- is obviously a constantly changing and ever-evolving process. One version's "sorry, no way" scenario is often the next version's empowering new feature.
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Message was edited by: cschapin
Sorry: URL is http://www.stonecreekstudios.com/nyc111508

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