I believe I solved the problem I had at the very beginning. I could deal with html not being able to handle a sort of "highlights" panel on the home page that would present some featured articles and act like a shortcut to those things. I couldn't make a slide show where you could click on the images and you would be taken to that page. My first attempt was a mouseover effect to enlarge thumbnails and reveal what that content would be if you clicked on that thumbnail. Then I discovered that I could get the desired effect using code that would hide and show a div on a rollover. This way, the image in the div could still have a link attached to it, and the desired picture would appear, while the one below it would disappear. So now you can click on the big image!