I've migrated the site to Squarespace Version 6, which offers a ton of under-the-hood improvements. New features in the platform make it possible for me to do a great deal more with the same sort of clean, minimal design template I had previously, and in less time.
To be honest, I absolutely hated SS6 for the first few hours that I played around with the new interface. I'd gotten so used to the SS5 backend that I'm convinced I had a form of UI Stockholm Syndrome. Now I'm kicking myself for not doing this sooner. I'll waste less time doing some redundant things that will free up time to do more in general. As minimalist as the site design already was, I think this is a great deal more handsome.
I'll be noodling with a lot over the next week: trying new widgets and whoosits, tinkering with line spacing and maybe typefaces. Anticipate things breaking in ways you will likely never see. Eventually, that "logo" banner will get redone properly.
A few notes:
Blu-ray screen grabs are now 1000 pixels wide (25% larger). The source images from DVDs max out at 853 pixels wide in their most raw form.
I may eventually end up making the 1000px grabs thumbnails that click through to lightboxed and watermarked full-res PNGs. I need to automate that process as much as possible, or it isn't worth the time I put in to it. I also have more plans for the renamed "Frame" posts beyond playing with their frequency. Galleries and video are both on the table.
Drill-down menus in the sidebar nestle away all of the category links that were there before and then some. If you want to go looking and clicking, you can. To those who want as uncluttered an experience as possible, you've got it. I need to go back and tag/categorize eight years of content with some of the new (and currently empty) categories.
I might be adding another contributor soon. This is not an open call for more writers. We were talking about something else, and he mentioned wanting to write something specific on a regular/semi-regular basis, but still maintain certain freedoms that he hadn't been offered elsewhere. He wasn't even fishing. I held out a net and said, "jump in if you want". We'll see what happens.
Full disclosure: Squarespace has sponsored episodes of podcasts that I host. I've also been a paying customer since well before then. They didn't pay for this post, directly or indirectly.