It’s trendy to brand a site redesign as 2.0 (or 3.0, 4.0, etc.), so much so that I don’t think I want to go down that path. But as of Monday, October 20, 2008, CSSquirrel is operating under a new redesign.

A major annoyance I had with the previous incarnation of the site was that it looked entirely too much like a Wordpress-powered blog.

And yes, it is one. But it’s more than that. It’s become a sort of rallying point for my identity on the massive nest of tubes called the Internet, and I needed it to reflect more than a weekly blog entry about obscure CSS styles. As I’ve been absorbed into more and more social pieces of Web 2.0 (see, even the web can’t avoid that numbering system), I found myself having more and more of a challenge of directing people to various bits of me on the Internet.

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Straight from the city of Bellingham, WA (city of residence for yours truly) has come Tatango, a web application that broadcasts messages to groups of mobile phones that you configure. I’ll be honest that I don’t know all the details, as I get too much traffic on my own phone already and am thus not seeking more. However, for those of you that aren’t messaging hermits like myself, it looks like a great way to keep in contact with your friends with a lot less effort than painstakingly messaging each.

Check it out.