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<p>There are a number of open source photo gallery CMS (content management systems) that allow you to use just your web browser for site maintenance and construction. I have used both Gallery 2 http://gallery.menalto.com/ and Zen Photo http://www.zenphoto.org/ on Dreamhost.com -- lots of features and the learning curve isn't bad at all.<br>

You can use the money you would spend on commercial web design software to buy more photo gear -- "cloud computing" is the direction things are going anyway.</p>

Have you tried the Photoshop Web Photo Gallery automated action? It is menu driven, doesn't require you to set up any actions, and you can customize the templates in the Photoshop 7 presets/WebContactSheet folder with a plain text editor. I am finding it quite useful to generate boilerplate from photos and/or scans, then customize the html with BBEdit. You can always discard the html and just use the images or thumbnails.

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If you use Macintosh OS X, the Image Capture utility that comes bundled with the system software has the ability to apply an automatic task after download. This includes formatting in four popular sizes, creating a slide show, or a web page. In addition, iPhoto, also free, has a bunch of automated stuff.

Last spring I used a Canon FS4000US in the Instructional Media lab at UW Milwaukee to scan slides for a faculty artist's web site. It was attached to a white tower G4 Macintosh running System 9.2. At one point the computer wouldn't recognize the scanner, but re-arranging the USB connectors cured that. The scan quality was great, plus the four-slide holder made scanning a lot faster.<p>

The bundled software was adequate, but I would have liked to try it on a Mac using OS X and Photoshop 7, but unfortunately the school didn't support either at that time.