A Fresh New Look

Now that I’ve finished my Carolina degree and have some time on my hands before starting work at Capstrat, I decided it was time to give  www.evancarroll.net.  The biggest change is that my blog is no longer at www.evancarroll.net/blog, as WordPress is powering the entire site now.  The theme is based upon a conceptual design I put together on Sunday and I’ve spent the last few days tweaking the CSS styling and templates into what you see now.  I also added some cool WordPress plugins including the Social Homes widget, which I customized to include links to both ClaimID and brightkite.  Others include a back-end spam filter (so far so good) and a list of recent Twitter updates.  I’m quite pleased with my first stab at theme creation.

In other news, I am beta testing brightkite, but there’s not many (none really) participating here at home.  I’ll have to try it out when I am back in Chapel Hill and especially when I am in Minneapolis in June.   I’ll post more about brightkite and my trip to Minneapolis at a later time.  For now, feel free to send me your comments about the new layout.