Web galleries - optimise for search

I have IT skills but am no web designer. I had someone create a simple photography web site using Flash, with the page design looking similar to a Lightroom Flash web gallery template. (See www.duncangrove.com) I am now able to easily update my galleries using no specilaist skills, which is great. My concern though is that the galleries do not seem to be "search friendly". I suspect I could do something to each of the gallery's' Index.html page to add meta tags but since a new index.html page is created every time I add a new image, this would be very time consuming.
The issue really came to light when client approached me to purchase an image for a large sum of money. He had found the image on my old Picasa site that I have not bothered with for years (and am ashamed of since it looks amateurish.) A Google search for the subject matter lists it fairly high up the fist search page. My "proper site" does not even show up in the same Google search, even though the image titles contain the key wrods that were searched for.
I would appreciate any comments/suggestions.
Regards

I *think* Google parses flash files, but if they do I don't think the indexing
is 'weighted' the same as keywords in html files, which may be why your old site
ranks higher than your new one. I use an html gallery and Google finds my pages
about the way I'd expect.
Charlie...
http://www.chocphoto.com

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Howdy all,
Nobody else seems to be complaining here so maybe it's just me. I've sent out a few galleries (roughly 100 photos each) to friends and family but had nothing but complaints.
First the whole browser requirements freaked them out, most just hit 'use current browser', at least on the first attempt. Then the loading begins. I think for many the problem was that it actually says 'loading', then appears to finish loading, but really it's still loading in the background and drawing the page etc. So they start pressing buttons and scrolling around and then more loading starts, then they press a few more buttons (just to get an idea of what happens I watched my brother as he opened it for the first time on his PC. It's painful to watch). I've started telling people they'd be better off going to make a coffee and coming back 5 minutes later.
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Message was edited by: sandrift

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