Front-end web developer.
Tea drinker. Cheese eater.
Just over a year ago I launched version 5 of my website on the world, it was my first blog driven version. At the time I thought it would be good to place barriers to publication beyond simply not pressing the publish button.
To cut a long story short, that was a bad idea.
One year on I’ve only managed to post 2 things but managed to collect 15 draft versions of posts doing nothing more than gathering dust.
In an attempt to follow the ‘mobile first’ ethos, reducing the amount of loaded assets on smaller devices is high on the priority list.
Using media queries we can effectively control the loading of things like background images, but what about the CSS itself? After all, it seems wasteful to load CSS specifically for desktops when viewing a site on a mobile device.
A common misconception of media queries is that a device only downloads the CSS of a matched query (when using the query in the media attribute of a link element).
This is not the case.
You’re probably here because you’ve the delightful task of creating a multilingual Drupal 7 installation.
Things have been going OK, you downloaded and installed i18n, switched some translation modules on and happily started inputting content and adding translations. You figured it was time to created some front pages, of course a separate one for each language, otherwise what’s the point. You figure it’s as easy as creating and translating other nodes, so you do that, set the default front page, take a look, switch the language and…. it doesn’t work!
What do you get when you cross some books, a knife, a need for business cards and a man with a habit of doing crazy things?
Why… Business Bookmarks of course!
Typekit Love is an attempt to gather real world examples of web sites which are helping push the boundaries of typography on the web.
Specifically, Typekit Love is devoted to web sites which use fonts provided by Typekit. Whilst there are alternative services Typekit Love is born out of my personal fascination with Typekit. It was the first such service I used and remains my standard go to for many reasons: huge selection of fonts, reasonable pricing and great service.
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