Category: Personnal Ramblings

Random notes about myself or other topic that does not fit into whatever theme that this blog turns into.

Need to Start Trying

Durham, NC

I really need to start regularly blogging.  There are a whole bunch of topics I would like to touch on in the next few weeks.  Most of which are associated with potential projects including migrating to Drupal, using NGINX in a production environment, Percona DB migration and web site layouts [there are a few that I have very strong opinions on and where design is going in general].

I hope to start working small and getting more and more into the writing, but there are the day to day tasks that always get in the way.  I may throw a picture or two in when I feel like it – but that may be rare.

Fontularity – Testking.com Most Popular Fonts

Fontularity

Here is a little infographic from testking.com – I would have placed the whole graphic here, but it is a little wide for my site, and besides they deserve the traffic for the work.

I feel like I spend hours arguing for and against certain font choices based on rather ancient stats on what computers have what fonts.  I tend to be a minimalist, Arial, Helvetica, Times [New Roman], but with this I might be able to expand a little bit on that beaten path.

Unrelated: I have been working on a site that utilizes fonts from webfonts.fonts.com, which has been pretty interesting.  There have been some quirks, formatting and style issues, but in general it has been working out pretty well.  If you don’t have much traffic, they have a free service which is useful for testing.  For you designer types I would recommend a look at it – it will slow you pages down a little, but overall we have been very happy.  I will have a better idea about cost once we launch and are out of beta testing.

Web Advent Calendar – Back for 2010

24ways.com24Ways.org has started its Advent calendar for 2010.  There seems to be a wealth of information here each year, which can be found in the archives for previous years.  The posts tend to span a wide range of topics and not all may be of interest, but I am sure you will find a few that are right up your alley.