Web Gallery Navigation

hoping one of you experts out there can shed some light on the subject for this aperture newbie...
i want to post several web galleries onto my mac account but with some navigation back to my (soon to be launched) iWeb site. this could be just a simple link back to the iWeb homepage url. what i don't want is the gallery to be a dead end - ie prevent the user from having to rely on browser back buttons etc..
in fact it appears from the aperture marketing that you can have very sophisticated linking between galleries but this just seem to exist - or am i missing something?
look forward to your help.
G5 & 12" Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.6)

it really doesnt exist ... i went into the templates, created and saved my own to add new navigation functionality ...
this was so one could bounce around all areas of my site without having to rely on hte back buttons ...
i think i got all of 'em done ... but i always find (or am told) about another way to improve it, and then i just redo the template, but need to regen all web pages now ...
a side note, i noticed that on my pages in front of the copyright symbol, aperture is now adding a new weird character ... boo !!!

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