This is the new site design. There is still lots of tweaking to be done. I am sure there are pages hidden in places that will be using the wrong style sheet or will be just altogether broken. In the coming days, I hope to take care of most of them.

Also, we will be fiddling with the font sizes and such to make sure the readability stays where we want it to be. So, for the next week or so, bear with us as we work out the kinks and polish up this new design.

The site should be fairly compliant for both XHTML and CSS standards and most modern browsers should render it almost identically.

Since our meager and humble beginning three years ago, we swore we would never bow to the scourge of banner advertising. We wanted this site to be driven by content and we wanted our readers to be free of assaults by banner ads, pop-ups, pop-unders and all the other ways advertisers are raping the Web.

In other words, this site is a labor of love that we have poured our ideas, thoughts and money into for the sake of prompting good discussion among people who like to talk about a variety of issues. With more than 1,200 readers a month, I’d you all agree!

Fear not fellow Webizens, we won’t fall to the dark side. But, In the spirit of capitalism and an attempt to augment the growing expenses of the site, we have opened a small but growing store with a handful of products. I think you will enjoy them. My favorite is the thong. Yes, the SpittingLlamas.com thong. What wonderful lady wouldn’t want it??

We plan on growing the store exponentially over time with a variety of products and limited time only specials. In the past we have received many emails from people suggesting we do this - encouraging us to apply our humor and point-of-views to bumper stickers, t-shirts and coffee mugs. Mostly we lacked time to get it started. (And we can’t forget our wonderful wives that have tolerated our growth and the expenses that have come along with it.)

Currently the store is hosted at CafeShops.com but we plan on moving it to our own e-commerce package in time. These products will also be given away as prizes for contests we plan on running in the future. We are also working on a major revision to the site that we should have ready soon. Yep gang, we’re taking it up a notch!

So why don’t you wander over to the SpittingLlamas Oasis check out some products, and maybe support our site a bit. Tell your friends. And keep an eye on the store. Like I said, it’s going to change quickly!