/** * @article About this redesign * * @since April 23, 2010 * @package About this site * * @tags meta-posts * */
The world is full of carpenters whose houses are falling apart. I know, because I’m one of them. It’s been just about a year now that I’ve been freelancing full-time, but I still haven’t gotten around to fixing my own site. Its started to get a bit embarassing going around promoting myself as a web designer when my personal site looks like (really, is) something that I threw together years ago in a couple hours.
This redesign has also been a chance to use some techniques and technologies that I don’t get to put to use in live jobs.
Typekit web fonts
Finally got to try out Typekit, for one. I’d wanted to try it for a while… It just never seemed easy to convince clients to pay a recurring license for their headline type, when for the most part, the same effect can be achieved with Cufón or image replacement.
Still using custom fonts very conservatively, though. This site is using League Gothic for major headers and Chunk for a few smaller headers, but even those headers only seem to work at certain point sizes. After seeing plenty of webtype experiments where the body copy is set in some .otf font that completely fails to alias on Windows, I think I’m not going to try that out yet – least, not anywhere people might see.
WordPress 3.0
This is also my first time testing the nightly builds of WordPress 3.0 beta. On first glance, there aren’t a lot of new features – although the nested comments thing is something pretty cool. But I’ve heard about a lot of new features behind the scenes, and I’m looking forward to trying them out. The new custom post types capabilities in particular seems useful – I’ve tested it out by migrating all my “portfolio” entries to a new custom post type, and getting them out of the main feed…