About the Gallery

I'm looking for a good web-based gallery manager.  The one I'm using, Gallery2, is bloated, slow, and tries to do too many things at once.  (Every image in the current gallery requires 25 to 30 database queries.  Very slow unless I rent my own private server.)  And the software I install on to my computer doesn't let me manage captions and it can't seem to properly handle apostrophes.  It's also running on slow-ass Java that crashes on the slightest hiccup.

Did you know I could sell pictures using Gallery2?  Will I ever use that feature?  No.

If I could find an easier and more efficient way of uploading pictures, then the gallery wouldn't be so slowly updated nor would it be so annoying to navigate.  It also was recently messed up when I upgraded my blogging platform, WordPress, to 2.7.1.

I've been looking at Google Picasa, Flickr, or MyPhotoAlbum but I still prefer hosting my own images and movies on my server - not with some other company.  The method must have software I can install onto my computer to "sync" photo albums between my computer and the web server.  I still don't know how it will be incorporated to this site's layout.  I might have to overhaul the layout again this summer since I'm still not too keen on using <IFRAME>'s.

Inline frames prevent me from using AJAX pop-ups. You know those blogs that have a full version of the picture pop up and the background darkens when you click the thumbnail?  I can't do that with the way things are here.  Going to a separate page puts it in the frame or stops the music.  And opening up a full new window is annoying and often blocked.