Best way to set up a simple photo gallery page in PluXml?

zaidbarrak

I’m building a small site on PluXml for a hobby project where I show off my custom patches, mostly photos of designs I’ve made for friends’ jackets and bags, and I’m trying to figure out the cleanest way to lay out a gallery. I like that PluXml is lightweight and doesn’t need a database, but I’m not sure whether to use a plugin for the gallery or just write the HTML directly into a static page. Has anyone done something similar, and do you have tips on keeping image sizes small so pages still load fast? I’d also love to hear which themes handle photo-heavy pages well without a lot of tweaking.