Linking Aperture Web Galleries together

I am trying to make my first web site using Web Galleries created by Aperture. I can not figure out how to have an index page (a page one first goes to when one goes to your site) and then have links to the Aperture Web Galleries.
Can Aperture do this ? Or do I need other software that create the central index page ?
What software are Aperture users maintaining the Aperture web Galleries with ?
Thanks very much in advance.
Dick Barrett
Mac OS X (10.4.8) Power Mac G5 and Powerbook

you will need to create your own main index if that is what you are referring to ...
i used to do something similar ...
here are a few threads ...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3297833&#3297833
this talks about adding links into a web theme ...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3897773

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