I've got an existing site, www.astrofoto.org, that I want to convert to Drupal. The current site is a a set of home-grown PHP code using class.rFastTemplate.php which works quite well, but I would like a more integrated approach to content management.
I'm using img_assist and the image module, but still have to hand-craft all my image mouseovers on the new site (which is very much under construction). All of my mouseovers on the old site are built from a template and follow the same pattern: load a pair of images, generate a set of identical scalings, build the same HTML fragment with the mouseover pair selected from a particular scaling. Have a look at the source for http://www.astrofoto.org/gallery/constellations/view.html/cap as an example.
I can (and have) pasted the HTML code directly to get one mouseover to work on my test Drupal site. But there are three issues: (1) all that automatic line-breaking messes up the HTML code unless I put the <a> tag all on one line, (2) there is no association between the two images except what I hard code, and (3) there are no alternate image sizes available.
None of those are show stoppers, but I'd like to be able to say that Drupal is easier to use than the old system and right now I can't :-(
Note that a full-features photo-gallery is not what I'm looking for here---I already have Gallery2 installed elsewhere for managing photos.