Most of the information the user will need when gleaning the site can be read in groups of small frames. However, if I were to put all the small frames on one page there would be way too much data for the user to go through. So I have put the data in categories.

 

What I want is:

When the user clicks on a link I want a semi-transparent overlay to pop up and cover the display area.

In the center/middle of this overlay I want the frame corresponding to the link data to be displayed in full opaqueness.

 

To give an idea of something similar you can review THIS site here and click on one of the colorful links in the lower portion of the page.

 

Not so much looking for the direct code but more of where I would go to learn how to do it myself.

I have made a very primitive version here It uses JQuery to show and hide it everything else is CSS/HTML

well that seemed easy enough didn't it? simple solution to a simple problem me likes a lot

No problem, Glad i could help