Thumbnails on homepage directing to gallery / description next to thumb

Two questions from a newbie..

1) On my site I have only one gallery which I use as my portfolio.
One my homepage I want to have 2 thumbnails of my latest sites who direct visitors to the portfolioid=30.
I tried to do this with several options like these:

[!MaxiGallery? &display=`normal` &gal_query_ids=`30` &picture_target=`30` &order_by=`pos` &order_direction=`asc` &limit=`2`!]

[!MaxiGallery? &display=`childgalleries` &childgalleries_ids=`30` &order_by=`pos` &order_direction=`asc` &limit=`2`!]

Either way, after clicking, the gallery directs to page 30 but doesn’t open in the core and instead opens in the sidebar on the position of the thumb and disrupting my layout.

2)Is there a way to retrieve the pict-description and list it next to the thumbnail?
I now did it by putting the description also in a text field in the content. Controlling it with CSS.
Whenever I change the order  or the content I have to redo this also in the text field which is a bit messy.

Here the site: www.all-reits.nl

Thanks, Yeb

1. Didn’t quite understand, but you can do a custom template where you link to the gallery document instead of straight to the picture if that’s what you want.

2. Do a custom template (see galleryOuterTpl and pictureTpl) to output what you need.

Thanks for the quick reply, Doze. You guys are doing a great job.

I will give it a try tomorrow,

Cheers,

Yeb