By tranzparency on

I have altered the "image" module for my personal site and it runs great. But I need to build a site for a friend's business and he doesn't need any of the drupal module features except the image gallery. I understand that he'll still need to login, use taxonomy, etc.

My first goal is to completely redo the Index.php page to his specs. To do this, do I need to go into the theme I'm going to use and alter a file or 3? If so which ones should I look into?

My second goal would be to strip the admin section down to the bare necessities. What is vital for logging in, using taxonomy and showing galleries with image module?

thanks huge.