You may have noticed a small grey box saying “Fonts from” in the bottom right of your browser window, which links to a page describing the fonts which are used on this site. This is part of the new Typekit service, which is able to implement a wide range of fonts into a website, giving designers more varied options when picking an appropriate font. (more…)
Yesterday Google announced a new weapon in the fight against Internet Explorer, when they released the Google Chrome Frame. This is an Internet Explorer plugin which renders web pages using the Chrome/Webkit engine meaning technologies such as HTML 5 and a faster Javascript engine can work within Internet Explorer. It is compatible with the three main versions of Internet Explorer, and is currently in open beta. (more…)
One of the first tasks when performing a brand new installation of Drupal is to ensure that clean urls are enabled in order to remove the horrible “?q=” from the urls in the site. Having a site without clean urls is not only bad for SEO purposes, but creates an extra barrier for users who might remember a certain page on your site. When they return they have to remember to type http://www.example.com/?q=page_title instead of the format that they are used to. (more…)