I use the mac.com webserver to present my photo galleries at present,
which is part of the .Mac service and integrates very tightly with
the Mac OS X Finder and file system. Makes things easy.
With that, I can use Apple's automated "Homepage" web page assembling
software, which I use occasionally, or I can construct my own HTML or
use an HTML generating application. My PAW work is presented in HTML
pages that I write myself (although I designed the template years ago
using some Claris page design software). Some of my other efforts,
like the thumbnails pages I added recently, I generate with iView
MediaPro, using their templates that I've customized.
What you do for a web page or gallery depends a lot of what you want
to present and how you want a viewer to work with it. I go for
simplicity as much as I can, I find too many effects and such oft
times get in the way more than they help. If the effects are
essential to communicating your information, then the more
sophisticated page generating software and web design packages make
developing pages much easier.
Godfrey