Hyperabid, by far the most important thing is none of the above good ideas. What you have to do is very carefully consider the taste/style of your girlfriend's mother. You are in the business of showcasing her to her friends (and showcasing your own sensitivity to her image). A Web page is the projection of her self-understanding onto the world, especially if she is the president or whatever of this dog society and wants the site to reflect her friends' views of things properly. If she is very refined (or thinks that her group wants to think itself refined), and wants to make the site refined, keep it very, very simple, clear, use a little colour with a lot of black and white, and use a graceful font. Don't clutter it up. If she wants dancing dogs, then you can do that instead. 99% of a site is how it looks when you open it up: what visual signals does it give off. Everything else is a minor mechanical detail.

The trick to learn is that even people who want elegance have a secret desire for looking at pasted pictures of Muffy in a Marx brothers outfit. So you might create an auxiliary page that is for something like that -- it will, I assure you, be the most looked-at page, but no one has to know that. You can absolve yourself of blame if everyone gives it the thumbs down, because you can take it immediately off the site as "just an idea I had".

yours, Peter T.