[donheff]

I have had a web site since 1994. I set it up for the fun of it and learning purposes, moved it to the basement on Linux in the late 90s and moved it to an online host a couple of months ago. I use Gallery (an open source php application) to store and present the photos. It has all of the features you suggest. My current gallery is on the 1.x version which is file based. They have a 2.x version that uses MySQL to store the albums. I tried that but ended up going back to the file based version since I like it. I am hosted by Brinkster paying $10 month because I want more disk space and more features. My daughter uses the $4 month version for her art stuff but can only use FTP to upload - not secure shell. If she keeps up with this I will counsel her to spend a few bucks more for security.