Welcome to the new version of Paradox Designs. I worked on this version for just over four months, and it is better than the previous design for a number of reasons, such as:

• Cleaner code: This theme was coded 100% from scratch, so there is no sphagetti code, and no attempting to cover existing functionality with boilerplates or other hacks.
• Light CSS: Instead of using gradient images for backgrounds and all sorts of places, I took advantage of as many CSS3 properties as possible. So, if you are viewing the site in Chrome, Safari, or Firefox 3.6, it should look nice and pretty. If your viewing it on IE, well, you still get gradients, but they don’t look as good and you don’t get shadows and round corners
• No buggy jQuery: When I made the previous design, I was just getting into jQuery. As such, it was a bit, well, buggy. This site is much lighter on the Javascript. Gone are the featured post boxes, the tabs, the like (no one really ever used them anyway. I might bring them back later, but in a cleaner, better form.

Thats just a quick list.
Bear with me for a few days while I tighten all the bolts and get this ready for production. New articles are already waiting to be published!
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