My Dad used jAlbum for his own website 15 years ago!
jAlbum and Thumbsup certainly have their place as static html image gallery generators. They’re perfect for generating a custom album with a handful or so of photos. The workflow (at least the last time I used it) was designed for a handful or so of albums, each with 10-100 assets.
PhotoStructure’s library view is dynamic, which means we can do fancy things like
- render different views every time (like the home page with “tag samples”)
- add assets, tags, and albums dynamically as assets are imported (without having to rebuild the entire “project”)
- support search
- do advanced image handling via both
srcsetand original asset streaming based on the resolution of the browser - stream video transcodes based on the browser
- comfortably scale to hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of images
BTW: if either of you go with Wordpress, be sure to stay on top of security updates.