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!