I’m a big fan of gallery2, including using it to power a personal photo sharing site. It’s management features are very good, but it lacks a good built-in solution for a slideshow embedded on a non-gallery page, such as the site home page.

I’m not one to usually run to flash as a solution for a web page, but the folks at Flash Your Web have published a nice lightweight XML powered flash slideshow for gallery2. It offers both some fancy options such as multiple transitions, titles, and dropshadows, as well as the ability to be configured to just gracefully fade from one picture to another. I’d certainly recommend it to anyone embedding gallery2 into a website.

Particularly if you are colorblind, or simply if you are in need of some color inspiration, a color scheme selection tool can be very helpful. I’ve found the interface on this scheme tool particularly convenient. If you have an idea of one color you’d like to start with, it can ably suggest additional colors to complement it.