I decided to take the plunge and upgrade my site to Drupal6. It's been a while in coming, but all my favorite modules are now Druapl6 ready.

The redesigned site has a bunch of new features and can probably be considered over-the-top as far as jQuery goes. But so what: jQuery and Drupal are totally fun to play with! Most of the jQuery enhancements happen in the Photography section. One neat trick is to pass Views arguments to your javascript using the technique I found here.

Speaking of Views, passing arguments in Views2 is totally different than doing so in Views1. It took me a while to figure it all out but the new methods are way more powerful and flexible. Recently the guys maintaining the Image module added Views2 integration which allows you to create relationships between nodes and images you've uploaed. Nice work.

A web redesign story wouldn't be complete without a few comments about how brutal it is to develop sites for IE6 and IE7, so here's mine:
...just go ahead and DIE you worthless piles of steaming bile!

Bye for now.