I’ve been tweaking a new theme over the past week or so based on CSS Rockstars’ Charade theme. I took out their credit line in the footer because some of their stuff was broken and I’ve made some other additions. I mentioned you in the first line of the redesign post, so don’t be mad.

As simple as the last design was, this one gives me some more places to showcase my social media involvement and it promotes my RSS feed better. I’ve also migrated all of my hand-coded pages to WordPress pages for easier management. I’ve tried to keep as many of the old permalinks in place during the revamp.

I added some new plugins and removed some others. I’m sick of the snow here in Indiana so the snowfall plugin had to be deactivated. The new theme has links to Digg, StumbleUpon, and Twitter on each of the posts so the AddThis plugin and TweetThis plugin bit the dust.

If you’re using IE6, you should know it :) and switch ASAP!

If you’re one of the 150 million people who use Facebook, you can leave comments on my site using your Facebook account. If you haven’t seen it on other sites, try it out. It’s really simple and nonintrusive on Facebook.

Own an iPhone or iPod Touch? Try http://maxbeatty.com and see how it’s nicely formatted for you thanks to WPTouch.

The only thing I don’t like about the redesign is that it’s based off of someone else’s work. MaxBeatty.com 3.0 will definitely be a homebrew! I also need to find a good way to present my portfolio using WordPress or something that integrates well. Look for that coming soon but until then enjoy, read, comment, share, friend, follow, chat, and be well!