Zenphoto + zenphoto looks perfect for portfolio type sites so far, but I've just run into an issue that I hope someone can help me with.

What I'd like to display as the menu is something like:

About
Portfolio
-- album1
-- album2
-- etc
Services
Contact

So listing both pages and albums together, and ideally be able to rearrange them easily as needed. I know I could hardcode it in, but I'd really like to find a more elegant and flexible solution if possible. I'm going to have a go at mangling the relevant plugins, but if there's a simpler solution I'd be really grateful!

You can accomplish it without "mangling plugins" as you put it. Take a look through the theming tutorial and then take a look at your sidebar.php so you can modify it to your liking.

http://www.zenphoto.org/2009/03/theming-tutorial/

Well, a real combined albums and pages menu is not possible right now without coding it manually. We have such a feature/plugin planned and roughtly started but that will take quite some time as we have to work on some more important things in the background of zp right now that might affect this feature.

micheall - not quite so simple, as the page menu and album menus are separate. I could put one after the other, but integrating the two in the way I've posted isn't possible through regular theming. I'm also unfortunately not as good with PHP as with frontend development - hence any thing I do with it tends to be 'mangling'

acrylian - ah, well good to know I can stop messing with the PHP then. Hard-coding the menu for now isn't a big deal, and I'll just look forward to that feature coming out someday. Thanks for the fast response to my queries.