I think a number of topics are getting meshd in this thread however.

Exactly. I've worked out a kludgy pipeline from my camera, through raw file conversion, Photoshop (color correction, cropping, spotting, contrast/brightness, etc.), DreamWeaver, and a bunch of shell scripts, to make web pages that aren't as good as I'd really like to have. What I'm really looking for are tools or just random thoughts about how to optimize my production pipeline. I like the idea of using EXIF tags in the same fashion as ID3 tags. You just need browsers that let you manipulate them as easily as iTunes or Tag & Rename.