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.

With the recent increase in traffic on TutorialFeed.com, I was lagging on approving / denying tutorials and there began to be quite a buildup. I thought over some ways to remind myself when more content needed to be moderated, and landed on a great idea – have the website text message me. It didn’t take much to figure out, and now every couple hours I’ll receive a new text message when there’s stuff awaiting my graceful touch (:P).

If you’re curious about how this works, this is the tutorial for you.

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This is a simple plugin, which I described how to make in a recent tutorial, that replaces your current theme’s blog title with a header image that you can change at any time from the WordPress Dashboard. If you have questions about how to use it, refer to the tutorial for detailed instructions.

• Download this Plugin
• Read the Tutorial for more instructions

On a few of my WordPress themes I include an option to upload an image to display as your blog’s header. If you’re running a different theme, but would like this functionality, it’s very simple to recreate – so follow along and learn the tricks!

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Slidefolio is a simple theme for WordPress that constructs a slideshow portfolio based on images attached to posts. The slideshows run on jQuery and overall it’s very easy to maintain. Just upload posts with images attached and they show up in the slideshow! The theme is somewhat experimental, please let me know if you run into any errors with it.

• Download this Theme
• Preview on Nick’s Demo Blog