Testing possible new feature

I really like the look of these web photo slideshows, so I'm toying around with how to put something like this on the blog. Honestly, I had no idea how much work went into these things. Check out this workflow:

• Take this pictures (of course)
  
• Export them in appropriate sizes (actually I think I can ditch this step in the future)
  
• Find a program, preferably for free but no such luck, that will simply take your image files and construct the slideshow with a nice look. This step took the longest today...seemingly lots of these kinds of programs out there but I don't like the look of the others too much. Also wanted a program on my computer as opposed to always having to upload images to online image banks.
  
• Create the project in the newly downloaded software.
  
• Create a blank audio file using Apple's GarageBand software. [This slideshow software requires audio. So, while I didn't want to find some cornball 30-second sound byte I decided to make my own blank mp3 file.]
  
• Import new GarageBand file into iTunes and convert to mp3 format.
  
• Import blank mp3 file into slideshow application.
  
• Compile the slideshow and setup overall look.
  
• Upload the files created by the slideshow application to my ftp server (it is a flash-based slideshow which means there has to be a .swf flash file, a html file, and the accompanying images).
  
• Create a new blog entry and edit the html code to show my slideshow.
• [Added after first posting] I thought that would be it. But it turned out that the format was bigger than my blog page. So, I had to re-create the slideshow...re-upload to my ftp site...and re-enter the html code on the blog post to reflect the changes....TWICE!! Man, that's frustrating!!
  

Not bad, eh?? Whoa. If I'm going to do this I'm definitely going to have to work on streamlining the workflow. But, as a first go I've already learned a lot and can either see where I can save time or know what to look for when browsing the web for different software.

How's that for a technical post?! :-)