Image gallery design

[Andy]

This isnt a 'c#' specific question but since I program in c# primarily, I thought I'd ask here

I'm designing a family photo gallery for myself and just wanted to ask what everyone's ideas were on how to go about this.

I started this by simply using the file system and doing direct image manipulation ( using the originals to create thumbnails on the fly and showing 'album sizes' , getting the exif info etc ) but I thought it might be more efficient to store the album sized images in a database along with info like what album they belong to etc. I'd still store the original images on the file system of course.

Thoughts?

[Andy]

hey mods..This thread will be talking about doing this in asp.net 2 so you might want to move this to the asp.net forum....my bad