This site's primary purpose is to show off the photography skills of JasmineAzure (a partnership between myself and Jasmine St. John). I chose a simple color scheme with plenty of space around all the images to keep the site design from influencing or detracting from the images.
Most of her images are in black and white, but there are enough color images to make us avoid picking a single color like green or blue and using that as the basis.
The logo is designed using Agency for the top and Docu for the bottom. I was scared to put two san-serif fonts together like this, but the size and letter-spacing difference makes it work.
The first version of the gallery used a Flash applet called SimpleViewer from Airtight to present the images. It's a great little tools that allows us to upload new images and galleries very quickly, has a built-in navigation system, and makes it easy for me to organize the material. The only real problem it presents is that it's a Flash applet designed to be used alone. Thus, adding a logo and other site navigation was a bear. For some reason Flash doesn't like to work in DIVs and the cross-browser issues made it unworkable (a number of workarounds made it work in IE 6, but just die in Safari, Firefox and Mozilla). So I was forced (forced, I say) to use frames. This allows me to contain the Flash applet in the middle (which is fine because the applet's navigation is purely self-referential) and keep site navigation on the bottom.
The second (current) version of the gallery is built in Gallery2, a web-based image database. The move was based on a handful of issues: the images we had been showing were fairly small, and it was taking too much time to prep hand-made galleries with multiple file-size versions. Gallery2 is built to allow the user to upload a number of images, assign them to given galleries, and then will re-process as many different versions as you want (We had a 700-pixel size and allowed Gallery2 to build a 480-pixel size for show users initially). Gallery2 also did some basic stats for us, showing us how many views each image got.