Web Makeover

I was bored with the look of my website.
I was using Rapidweaver with specific plugins for my photo album and I was bored with that, too.
I couldn't see my photos on my iPhone or iPad from my website (no Flash), so I looked around for an html only photography gallery type generator.
Turns out I had one all the time - Aperture 3 does "web pages" and "web journals".

In Aperture 3, select some photos, select new from the Menu, choose Web page or Journal (the journal allows you to add text blocks to your pages), set up your options and then "export" it to disk (or MobileMe, of course!)
So, that's what I did.
Then using Rapidweaver, I took my existing site, changed the theme and removed the unused pages plus my photography pages. I put in a "placeholder" page for the Aperture 3 webjournal, then exported the site to disk.
I used cut'n'paste to move the content of the source of the webjournal to where the source of the content of photography page would be, and then moved that file into the exported webjournal. I then moved the whole of the webjournal site over the top of the placeholder photography page in the Rapidweaver site. End result was that I had a lovely themed photography journal, integrated into my sites new theme.
Some css tweaks were needed to get the navigation working correctly on the webjournal pages, and I haven't as yet, themed the individual photo pages, but the end result looks fine to me.

Time from start to finish? 4 hours.

And the moral of this story? Well, I would say:" Choose your tools well"