My initial interest in the Personal Web Site Starter Kit (PWS) was the photo gallery functionality that was included.  But I have found a little time here and there to make some minor customizations.

First, if you are just starting to use PWS, here are some links for key background information...

Personal Web Site Download

Introduction to the Personal Web Site Starter Kit

Extending the Personal Web Site Starter Kit

Second, here are the minor customizations I have done and supporting links...

Convert Personal Web Site Starter Kit to Web Application Project (WAP): I am much more familiar and comfortable with WAP development model, so making this change was a must.  The WAP model is similar to the way things worked with Web Projects in Visual Studio 2003.

Use SQL Server 2005 with Personal Web Site Starter Kit: This was necessary because my and many other hosting providers do not allow SQL Server Express Edition.

Customizing Personal Web Site Starter Kit to Save Photos to the File System: This was needed to take advantage of my available hosting space.

Other Small Customizations: Added category attribute to the albums; Modified Handler.ashx to allow for direct file downloads of original image files; Basic integration with BlogEngine.Net and Slide.Show (cool Silverlight application), which I can detail in a future entry.

If you are not into doing customizations yourself, I have come across a number of enhanced versions of PWS that are available...

http://www.willyd.ca/Default.aspx

Extended Personal Web Site Starter Kit

Extended Personal Web Site Starter Kit on CodePlex

http://www.edream.org/BlogArticle.aspx?RecordID=108