UPDATE: a new, improved version of this post is available here: https://www.divydovy.com/2011/07/cufon-for-thematic-with-no-plugins-improved/ I like Cufón. As long as the page loads and the JavaScript executes quickly, it’s a really slick solution to using any font you want (and have a license for) on your website. I haven’t really used it for body text, but I […]
Thematic: Custom Meta Descriptions without a Plugin
I’m really getting into developing child themes for Thematic. It’s a really powerful theme framework. I’ll try to post some of the more interesting bits of code I write to help the Thematic community at large. Here, I’ve used a nice little meta-description function from Life On Mars’s WordPress SEO 101 article and turned it […]
Philips TV update Q5492-0.26.75.0
My TV’s just updated with this firmware package: Q5492-0.26.75.0. Does anyone know what it does? No English references on Google…
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Cufon :hover Fix
Just a quick post. I have implemented cufon for a client’s website to replace the titles with a nice new non-web-safe font. This code worked perfectly to replace the titles with the new font. Cufon.replace(‘h1’, { fontFamily: ‘Helvetica Neue LT W1G’ }); Cufon.replace(‘h2’, { fontFamily: ‘Helvetica Neue LT W1G’ }); Cufon.replace(‘h3’, { fontFamily: ‘Helvetica Neue […]
WordPress XPertMailer Fails to Send to Gmail SMTP on Local WAMP Install
I can’t begin to tell you how frustrating this one was. So, local WAMP install on Vista 32bit. Using XpertMailer plugin to use Gmail as SMTP host for outgoing WordPress emails. Something I’ve done with no problem on my VPS. On my local machine, I just couldn’t get the XpertMailer plugin past the submission ‘Loading…’ […]