Best way to insert non-flash photo album in Dreamweaver CS5.5

Question

Using Dreamweaver CS4, I created my wife's art website.  It is:  www.tanglewoodbrushstrokes.com
To insert photo albums, I used Bridge and Fireworks.  Once past the initial learning curve, I was able to create these albums fairly easily.  However, these albums have two limitations that I would like to address.
1.  Adding or deleting an image requires creating a new album and then posting it on the page.  Now that I have practice, it doesn't take me very long to do this but there must be a simpler way.  As you will see on my wife's site, she has many pages of photo albums.  Moving photos from her "Recent Creations" page means those images my be disbursed over three or four different albums.  So this can be very time consuming.
2.  The albums created in this manner are flash galleries and are not visible on Iphones or Ipads.
I recently purchased Dreamweaver CS5.5 so I could use HTML5 in order to make my site work on Iphones and Ipads as well as PC's.  I have nearly completed the tutorial and am about ready to create a new site.  Today I have done some searching for ways to use non-flash galleries and have not come up with a definitive answer.
As you can see on my wife's website, the galleries are fairly simple.  All I really need is a page of thumbnails leading to a larger image with a description.  I want to keep it that way.
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

There is no one size fits all solution to this.  You're using DW to make a gallery and it's not really a gallery creation tool per se.  It's web authoring software.  So whichever gallery solution you choose it's going to come from someplace else.  And then you must integrate it into your HTML pages.
Personally, I really like dynamic slideshows with jQuery.  Add some PHP code to your page.  Upload jQuery   scripts and optimized images to your server.  Done.
To swap images later, add/delete files from image folder on server. Done.
You can see a live demo of this below:
http://alt-web.com/DynamicSlides/
http://jalbum.net/
If you want to generate a lot of different galleries quickly, look at JAlbum.  It's a commercial product that creates the thumbnail images & HTML pages for you.  There are lots of skins (styles) to choose from and you can further customize layouts with CSS.
http://www.projectseven.com/products/galleries/ssm/index.htm
PVII Slide Show Magic - extension for Dreamweaver
jQuery Fancy Box ~
http://fancybox.net/
57 Free Image Gallery Solutions with jQuery ~
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/css/57-free-image-gallery-slideshow-and-lightbox-solutions/
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media  Specialists 
http://alt-web.com/