Originally Posted by v4 media

Some people just tell you 15 thumbs at 150*113 etc or others want the thumbs and pics done and delivered complete.

Pick a gallery you like the look of, screencap it and try to recreate it in photoshop or fireworks, (which ever you prefer) use it as your background image, then place your info over the top, stick everything on different levels, so you can move things about easily.

There is no need to do all the thumb work in the actual design, just leave appropriately sized spaces for the thumbs.

Personally I take elements of a gallery and do my editing in dreamweaver, I don't like wasting filesize on backgrounds.

So you may find it easier to create a header and footer, stick them in an html editor and add the thumbs and middle text etc.