I have created photo albums in many different ways. I have one or two print books of photos, but most of my albums are online. My preferred method is to create a dynamic layout in HTML and CSS, and then build the page with PHP so that I can just upload the photos to a directory and have the page update automatically. But I have also used many photo gallery templates, I've used CGI scripts to create galleries online tools like Flickr, Photobucket, and others, as well as simple JavaScript and CSS photo rotators, but I always return to the ones that make it easy for me to add photos. The photo gallery I update most often now (about 2-3 times a week) is completely automated, all I do is clean up the photos in Photoshop and upload them to a directory on my site. How do you put up photo galleries?
I have used all sorts of different ways to create photo albums, from programming them from scratch, but you can’t beat the way a decent editor does them for you.