One of the most important but overlooked aspects of a web design is the typography. The fonts you use and how you present those fonts can really make or break your website design. Thankfully you can use CSS to really make your fonts look great!

I just had to get this post up after today. We’ve been doing work for a guy for about 2 years now on one of his websites.
Anyway we get in one morning and his site has been hacked, all the main content had been replaced with some javascript that loaded an iframe. He asked if we could sort it out for him so we got in touch with his host.
Their answer is, they dont do backups of customers sites but they’ll send him a guide on how to backup his own site in the future! So he’s lost about 100 pages of unique content that he sat and wrote up himself.

So never ever, ever, ever, ever even think about not backing up your website as the consequences could cost you dearly. If you’re using wordpress here’s a nifty backup tool that will automatically backup your wordpress website and email the backup to you. http://wordpress.designpraxis.at/plugins/backupwordpress/

My new idea for a new blog post that people might find useful is essential reads. Basically this section will contain links to sites that I use everyday to find useful; links, guides and information that I think have made me a better developer.

The first site in this series is SmashingMagazine. This website, in my opinion is fantastic. If you’re a web designer, developer or anything else to do with websites then this website is for you. They have everything from photoshop tutorials to free font downloads to desktop wallpapers and podcasts. I always check this website out at least once a day.

Cheat sheets can be very handy from time to time. Although you probably wont learn much from them, I find them excellent for refreshing my memory. For example if I’ve been working on an ASP project for a while and then have to do some CSS or even worse PHP I often take a while to get my head around the changes in language and format.

Updates for this site have been slow recently, mainly because I’ve had so much on at work so when I’ve got home I just want to relax, especially with the good weather we’ve had recently!

Since my last post I’ve been doing a lot of work with asp as well as improving my php and javascript.

I’ll try and get a CSS tutorial or two online in the next few days so keep checking back.