Subtle Site Improvements

Although it might not be immediately apparent, during the last two weeks I have been rolling out a series of improvements throughout this site.

Font Stacks

On my main body text I am using ff-tisa-web-pro-1 and ff-tisa-web-pro-2, which are being served up with help from Typekit. The fall back options in my font stack were; Helvetica, Arial and Serif.

Unfortunately with Typekit, sometimes you can see the font switch happen which is caused by your default fonts changing over to the ones served by Typekit and if you haven’t specified similar looking fonts then the switch over can be quite horrific, with line lengths changing and pushing words onto the next line. So to combat this problem, I switch my fallback fonts to Georgia, Palatino, ‘Palatino Linotype’, Times, ‘Times New Roman’ and serif. Although you will still see the font switch on some web browsers, the switch over should not be nearly as noticeable now.

One final thing I done, was republish my Typekit fonts as suggested on there blog in order for the fonts to render properly in the Opera browser.

Additional Information

This blog has always been pretty sparse, perhaps a little too sparse. So I decided to provide some more extra information at the bottom of each post, which give the readers more information about me. The sections are titled; who I am, what I do and where I do it.

I’ve also been toying with the idea of putting in related information that could accommodate extra information on the post.

Tweet Button

Last week I wrote about Noel Jacksons excellent little Tweethis button and if you missed out on this then it is certainly a worthwhile read. I’ve added the button to the bottom of my posts, directly above the additional information which I have mentioned above.

iPhone Version

Whenever I’ve had some spare time I’ve been chipping away at an iPhone version of this site, so hopefully I should be able to get that up and running before the month is out. Expect an accompanying blog post on how to create an iPhone version of your website in the not too distant future.