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I'm considering purchasing the TTG tools for web publishing for Lightroom, but I have a few questions. I've spent a couple hours looking at the forum and some of the documentation and sample galleries, but still not sure if I can fairly easily do what I want with TTG.

I've used Lightroom lightly since Lightroom 1.0. I've always wanted to do a web site/galleries of my photos. I know a bit of php programming.

I want a website with multiple albums and categories.

I want to be able to toggle of and off camera exif data for images.

When viewing individual images in an album I want see the thumbnails for the rest of the images in the album and be able click on them to select that image, not just a next and previous button/image. I don't care if the thumbnails run horizontally or vertically.

My specific question(s) are can I easily display (toggle) exif data for images and can I do thumbnail filmstrip/grid/carousel/whatever for album navigation?

If I can do those things fairly easily, could you give me pointers as to where I should look in the documentation to see how to do it, what files need to be altered, websites examples, that sort of thing. There is a substantial learning curve here I think :-)

Thanks so much for your time!