Lightroom

I would like to know the forums opinion on Lightroom plug-ins for webpage generation.

I have tried TTG Highslide, but find the end result not as attractive as I hoped- that may be due to my own ignorance. Any experiences or advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Luc

I keep running into this problem in Lightroom.
When I am in the Library module and I select multiple images in the image scroll bar at the bottom either by using ctl click or shift-click and then write something in the title and caption boxes, often the changes only appear on the first image that I selected. This behavior seems to happen for any changes that I make in the Library module.
Often I can make the preview box above the image scroll bar show thumbnails and then select the images in there instead, and then it seems to work fine.
It is really a pain because anytime I make changes to multiple images, I need to go back and check if they actually took to all the images or just the first one I selected. Often the changes are there, but sometimes not.

I know my computer is a bit slow for LR, but it'll have to do until next year (12" Alum G4 PowerBook).  Now that my catalog has grown to over 20,000 images, it seems to crawl compared to when I first used it.  Would it be better to break it down to several catalogs?  (This seems to defeat the purpose of a searchable database.)
Am I going to see a huge difference whe I upgrade to an Intel based Apple next year?

I'm pretty adept with Lightroom, but the cropping controls have me stumped.

What I need to do is set a *default* crop to 8x10 so when I hit the shortcut key "r," the crop goes to that aspect ratio without my having to use the little pull-down menu in the crop control and choose 8x10 for each image.

Is that possible?

I know how to crop an image and sync others to it, but since not all my images get cropped or cropped the same way that isn't practical for my workflow.

I also see that in the main "settings" menu there is a choice for "Crop to Same Aspect Ratio" with a shortcut key "s." I have no idea what this does. I can be cropping to 8x10 all day and hit "s" and it puts me right back at "original" (which for my captures is 8x12).

What am I missing?