Looking for a good Javascript gallery manager

Question

I've been looking around for ages, and have settled on Galleria. It's... useful I suppose. Can anyone suggest anything better? What I'm imagining is a gallery format much like this:

http://www.lolitaagogo.com/illustration/illustration/

After a little research on her website it looks like it's some custom js built by squarespace. So using that's right out. Any ideas?

I'm more than open to using straight html/css, that would be easier.

Edit for clarification:
I'm looking to build a static image gallery that is functional and athletically pleasing, where each image links to a separate page dedicated to that painting.

In addition, if anyone has any ideas how to implement/find the hover-zoom feature used by Hottopic.com that would be immensely useful:

Damn. Can't post more than one hyperlink. Will post it in the comments.

Answer 1

The gallery you point to is pretty much a floated grid of cropped images... perhaps you don't need anything too fancy for what you are looking for?

FWIW the best way to center / crop an image is to:

with css:

div.wrapper { text-align: center; overflow: hidden; }

img { vertical-align:middle; position:relative; }

and then use 'top' and 'left' on the image to position it so it is centered 'behind' the div. So perhaps some simple jquery that will do this for you.