I am an IT schoolboy who is on an 8 month apprenticeship. I have been charged with creating a little sharepoint site for our tiny group in the company I am working at. I have site collection (is that the correct term?) permissions, and no access to SP Designer. Everything I have done so far is via webparts (lots of CEWP).

I built a wiki site, and a few other things. I was then asked to build an image carousel with jquery. Done.

Now my current issue.

I have a list of applications we support in our department. It has about 14 columns, 10 of which are custom. I figured out a way to dynamically build a list and link them to another publishing page, on which I build a little thing to give a custom table of the output.

All of this works just fine.

However, now I would like it so the user clicks on the link, and the table (from the CEWP on the publishing page) opens in a sort of lightbox style effect. Actually, at this point, any modal fashion.

I have no experience with ajax, and am pretty new at a lot of this stuff. I am in no way asking for anyone to write my code and do my job, but would appreciate some pointers as in what direction I should point my research? I don't want to waste days 'barking up the wrong tree'.

Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks.