Originally Posted by After Shock Media

My view is the larger the thumbnails the better as long as they are optimized properly for a gallery that is. Reason for my thoughts are that if the thumbnails are large enough there are ussually less clicks to each individual picture and only clicks to the pictures that really interest them. Since the galleries purpose is to get them to the site and since rarely can you place full sized pictures on html anymore I do not care if they view the content and actually want them not to.