Photo gallery

i am interested in doing something similar to the photo gallery using xml in the turtorial section of this website. the problem is that all of the ‘jump start’ files are corrupt and to save space there is no explanation of how to create these (which i feel i need to make it unique to my needs, i can modify everything as i move from square one).

does anyone know of a similar tutorial online somewhere, or have any pointers you can give? any would help.

cheers,
trigger