Recently I’ve noticed that a blog has become almost obsolete for me. This is mainly due to services such as Twitter and Facebook, and other means of networking, but also comes along with the transition on the site’s part from a blog to more of an information and resource archive. You’ll start to see more practical content here on Pancak.es, such as WordPress themes and plugins, hopefully more tutorials on programming and design, etc. The year is coming to an end and you can expect changes in the near future – some already visible at strawandberry.com.

Happy Holidays everyone!

It’s the 31st of October again! Stay safe and have fun. And while you’re at it, check out ThisWebHost for some inexpensive and reliable hosting plans:

Just yesterday I discovered a sweet tool available to the public called Cufon. It’s based at cufon.shoqolate.com and allows you to embed font families into your websites with Javascript, so you can display custom fonts anywhere on the site. It encodes each block of text into a base64 image, and has support for gradients and almost every CSS style you can think of.

I’m using Cufon on Straw and Berry, a small business card-esque site right now, and theres more examples and instructions on how to use it on their website. Give it a shot if you want to use custom fonts without creating seperate images one-by-one in Photoshop.