What would be the best way to create a gallery site for a photographer who has
many (dozens) of images (9 main
categories, multiple categories within these 9 categories)? She wants a site
that looks slick and professional, but also to be able to easily modify it
herself.

She does have Dreamweaver, and we talked about doing an html based site, where
she can change and add images in Dreamweaver. However, I'm wondering if we can
make it look slick enough in html format?

We decided not to do a flash based site because it would be hard for her to
modify, and expensive to do the whole
interface in flash, since it would take too much programming time, and the
search engines wouldn't see it. (Plus, I haven't
had time to really learn flash yet.)

My questions are:

1. Are there online gallery programs (free, no monthly fees) that you like,
and that can be easily customized to look slick?

2. Do you know of any gallery type websites that look professional and
elegant, either in html or in one of the gallery
programs, that we can look at ?

3. What would you recommend for this situation? I've been stuck on this for
about a week.

Thank you in advance for any insight or suggestions!