Best photo gallery style for DW

I'm building my own website to show off my artwork and need help constructing a simple set of galleries.
What I need is a gallery that I can easily add images to or remove images from in DW without having to rebuild the whole page(s)
So far I have a home page with links to an Illustration, Fine Art and Photography pages which each have links to respective galleries (some having separate links to general and mature content). I have built these galleries with the "create web photo album" command in DW using Fireworks and then applying a template (of my own making) to these pages. The result has been very good.
However, what I'd like to know is once these galleries have been constructed are they set in stone? Meaning, let's say I build a photo album, apply the template, make other style changes in DW and then I realize I forgot one or two other images. Is the Fireworks created photo album flexible enough to be able to add more photos as I go, even, say weeks later? Do I have to start all over (delete the files in DW etc) with a whole new photo album?
Thanks,
R Mohr

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This is quite a broad question in my view. I don't know JAlbum at all but it looks contemporary and user friendly with the capablity to widgetise it. I wouldn't like it so much because I would find it difficult to fully customise it probably, because of the limits of my own knowledge. However, if you are good at all that stuff then have a go but I get the impression you would start with JAlbum and then work your site around that.
I think that your original question was about how to add images to a gallery that was built by another application and you would need to look at JAlbum to see how that is managed. I remember a few years ago that I would build a Photoshop web album and if I needed to add a couple of images I would rebuild the whole album.
I know a little more HTML/CSS these days so wouldn't find it daunting to make changes but I also know enought to implement any of the Lightbox clones. I think Lightbox has alwaus suited me. I reckon it's sylish without being gimicky and despite the fact that it is all over the web, it still has a good reputation. The good thing about it is that if you build your own gallery, prepare your own thumbs and viewing images, add the script and get it running yourself, you know exactly where everything is. That way, adding or removing images here and there isn't a problem.
I guess the other thing is that if you are adding whole new galleries quite often and working with heaps of photographs, then an automated option might be preferable.
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