yes I use dreamweaver for my basic content, i use gallery remote to upload to the gallery, and i use FTP to work with building entire sites or media content.
You cant just upload the pics through FTP to the gallery because they have to be named and imported into individual albums. Gallery is really a pretty indepth web app. It may take some time to master, and it may take longer to upload new pics to then regular html image pages, but it is more powerful, outlined, organized, and clean.