After Midwest FurFest in 2005 I edited the photos and arranged them, and built up pages for them and the result was MFF 2005. After this past Midwest FurFest I did about the same, but with some help from python and the html, if nothing else, was generated faster. I still spent a chunk of time hand-editing the pages of MFF 2006.
A while ago I decided that I was doing too much work (still hand entering width and height attributes, for instance) and started looking around. I found the Python Image Library (python-images) and that took care of the width and height attribute issue nicely. A closer look and the thumbnail images were auto-generated.
And that was pretty good, but it was still command line stuff and I was still hand-editing the python file to adjust constants. Thus I started down the road of tkinter and things got GUI. I have now have something that can generate the index files.