If you're looking for an alternative to hand-coding or DreamWeaving your ultimate gallery, check out these five great tools that should make maintenance a bit easier, and give you a stylistic leg-up on the competition.
1. SimpleViewer
Simpleviewer is simply gorgeous, and can generate a stunning visualization of your portfolio that is sure to impress. It uses XML to pull in images from a web directory (or Flickr, if configured) and display them as a Flash presentation. You can incorporate captions and links for each image.
The viewer comes in a few impressive flavors, including the TiltViewer (my personal favorite), and the PostcardViewer, both shown below.
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