Art site: What is it?

My cousin (technically mom's cousin) Jim Williams is a artist specializing in various Michigan locales and Chicago. His art is for sale all over on Mackinaw Island and even Oprah bought a piece from him. Most of his art is sold in stores or at art shows, but some sales come from the website. The existing site was made in FrontPage, which says a lot about a site.

Jim's wife contacted me about sprucing up the site, making it easier for search engines to find it, etc. The site breaks the art pieces into categories (Detroit, Chicago, Mackinaw, etc). Each category has a page with thumbnails and the name of the art. Then each piece of art has its own page with a larger image, more details, and prices.

The main issue of the site is FrontPage. It sucks. I had to take the site out of needing to have files saved and edited on the harddrive. It was causing constant problems publishing the correct version of a file, overwriting changes, blah blah blah. This of course means saving the site info in a database

Another issue in that having images of the art on the site is that of keeping people from just printing out their own copies and not buying the art. This is solved by slapping a watermark on the image files. But I didn't want to have to put the watermark on before uploading it to the site. And I didn't want to have to save a number of copies of the image, one for each page that it's displayed at a different size.

And last, the URL has to be coherent. "art.cfm?id=14" is no good.

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