WordPress is easily customizable with TONS of free themes and plugins (and you can make your own if you know how.) It’s very secure and is primarily blogging software, so you have a built-in art blog.

NextGen gallery supports galleries (based on media or whatever you want), albums (collections of galleries, i.e., you might put “dogs” and “cats” galleries into your “animals” folder) and it also has tag support- you can even insert galleries based on tags into pages or entries (all of your work tagged with “photoshop” for instance.) NextGen Gallery also automatically generates an RSS feed of the art you upload with it, so fans can follow your work via a feed in the feedreader of their choice.

I’ve tried tons of solutions for my own sites, and WordPress + NexGen Gallery is what works the best (also, it’s free.)

You can see an example on my site here: http://snowfoxcreations.com/my-art/
I’ve inserted the “custom ipod cases” “my art” and “portfolio” albums and the galleries I placed in them automatically show.

I didn’t realize you were building sites, also!
GREAT!

TS-

John:
Excellent points, especially the DIY delima!
And about the plug…can’t plug your website if you don’t have one!
That’s a perfect example!

Tony-