Yep, another month another redesign. At least I know that is how it feels to some people whenever they see a post like this from me. I can't help it, I am fickle and easily attracted to shiny new things. And this time I was able to walk the walk, as well as talk the talk.

Those most astute of my readers will remember that I had an emotional vomiting session here on the ol' blog in which I railed at the fact that the design I think is great, namely the type I engage in (selfish anyone?) isn't really appreciated.

In any case there was some great discourse, and someone I happen to have a great deal of respect for called me out a bit. And Garrett was right, I didn't really do anything special with CSS on my site, so why was I bitching?

As I was prepping for this design, I had these thoughts rolling through my head. Why don't I use more advanced CSS techniques in my designs? Its not like I care about supporting some browsers on my personal site. As I began thinking through what I wanted to do, something quite unexpected happened.

In this case, the unexpected thing was Chrome Frame. Once I installed CF on a machine at work and saw how truly amazing it was, I started thinking that this design could have some interesting bits to it.

While I was at it I decided to give that typekit account I have a try. I can't tell you how much fun it was to know that I could sift through the fonts on typekit and all of them were able to be applied to my site, while still maintaining things I care about like accessibility.

This design is by no means done, but I think it is more than ready to be kicked out of the nest and encouraged to spread its wings. I am currently using:

• box-shadow
• text-shadow
• border-radius
• background-gradient
• transitions

I have plans for some of the more interesting bits like the animations and 3d stuff, but that is a bit more involved and I only had a couple of hours here and there to apply to this.

As always the floor is open for commentary/critique. And yes the background gradient doesn't work in Firefox. I weighed how amazing it looked with the advisability of using a feature that wasn't supported by Firefox, and went ahead and did it anyway.

If you are on a PC and want to see it, go install Chrome Frame. Man it feels weird telling people to use Internet Explorer. I think I need a beer.

So as you can see, there be some changes yet again around Sillyness. As much as I like some of what was going on with Believe, my previous theme, it just wasn't me.

Megatron is a return to my roots. Historically Sillyness has sported a single column interface, since I think that flanking menu's have limited usefulness. And as I have said before, I like Content to be King. Hail to the King baby.

Megatron isn't finished, but neither is this going to be a "live redesign". The theme had hit a point where it was mostly okay, so I decided to launch with what I have and let everyone see how tweaking is done yo.

I know there are some warts, most notably the comments, and some features missing but this will all be remedied in the days to come.

Welcome to Sillyness Spelled Wrong Intentionally, Version Megatron.