Random Thumbnails on home page

shiatostorm

I'm updating my website at the moment and have an idea where I want to be able to display some thumbnails on the home page that ideally link either to that specific image within the gallery or the album in which that image is held...is it reasonably straight forward to implement something like this? and what do i need to do to make it so?
cheers

acrylian

Since you seem to use Wordpress:
http://www.zenphoto.org/2008/01/hacks/#zenphoto-as-plugin
http://www.zenphoto.org/2008/01/wordpress-plugins/
and
http://www.zenphoto.org/documentation/Zenphoto/_template-functions.php.html#functionprintRandomImages

shiatostorm

Thanks very much, I wasn't going to us wordpress as the front page at all in fact, just have that accessed through the front page - or re-style is as the new look, here's what I've made as a simple template
http://www.lightoverwater.co.uk/example/
thumbnails>to gallery/images etc below a menu on the left and content in the center - be it 'gallery', 'about' or what ever. just keeping it simple and clean. the front page contains a small 'welcome' message with abbreviated/truncated blog posts on the right. its a photoblog so would be nice to figure out a way of having thumbs of recent posts in there too but one step at a time eh, Right now I'm wondering how to get the thumbs from ZP to sit in the bit below the menu

acrylian

The first link I posted should work then, too.

shiatostorm

ok, cheers
I don't know a great deal of php/coding just enough to cobble together things by trial&error. in that first link where would I put the "define...require_once...etc." part, in the same place I want my images to appear on a page?
and although it says 'randomimage' can that be changed to 'randomthumbs' or similar or would adding dimensions (e.g. 100px by 60px) be easier do you think?

edit: i think I just found that 'randomimage' refers to thumbs themselves than the full size image I previously thought!