As a photographer, if I completely deactivate the galleries: it completely throws off my site, along with a huge chunk of coding. I may have to look into that, though.
As for the second solution and numbers: I have no idea what you mean. HaHa. I am by no means a pro-coder. I’m self taught and can manage a fair amount, but because of that: some jargon is unfamiliar to me.
