Publishing some illustrated books later, any advice ?

Hello. This is my first post here, so excuse any fumbling.

I'm looking into publishing a few books that are heavilly illustrated with colour images, a full page image on all odd pages. Is Lulu capable of making color pages ? I'm thinking of making a few through them for unpublished sample books.
Or, is there a better place to go for this plan ?

This is what I make...

password-protected Web gallery.... That sounds like a good plan. I shall learn about them !

Well, I think I have about 75 images , but I want to rework some earlier pics, as I teach myself to make these , I get better with each one.

I'm going to look into that binding maching later. Sounds like a good idea. I'd like to make some books at my own pace, to sell at the conventions and events I sell at, and printing and binding at home would be great to do, until a publisher finds my book idea a good one.

I actually hadn't thought up the book idea myself. It was the convention attendies who keep asking for them. I was looking to maybe sell large posters someday, but I like the book idea better now.

Sure Honeycomb. We can look into it. I'll take a peak at your website to get a feel for your work.

Hmmm... Getting my profile picture and signature to show themselves seems to be an adventure in itself.... ??!

I put my first book together with Viovio. I'm waiting for my first few books to arrive to see how they look. I got full colour on front and back, no nasty price increase.
A person bought the first copy from the company on the day I published, and got it in less than nine days. She says it looks REALLY good, so now I'm just going nuts, waiting for them to get here. I only could afford 4 of them, but three are now slated to be signed and mailed off ASAP.