testing typekit

Thought that it would be good to test Type Kit as lots of people in the past have wanted to have a non web compliant font on their website! Well now you can and for free to test, so head over to typekit or contact us to get different fonts on your page.

I tested “orgovan-rounded-web” and “metalista-web” and I experimented with using the CSS selectors and also using CSS rules in the style sheet to play around with setting the size of the font. Also notice the little badge down there that you have to have if you use the free account.

All in all the process was fairly painless once I worked out that you need to use both font-family values otherwise you may end up with a bit of a mess, like this “Hickle-Dee-Pickle-Dee”*) :) HAVE FUN!

Data or Performance Driven Design

As more and more web designers adoptĀ  web standards for making web sites and web standards come the norm across the industry the focus of web design development will turn more to Data or Performance based design. Check out Luke Stevens interview on Data Driven Design. Definitely worth a read for web designers and for someone looking at hiring a web professional.

The Cone of Uncertainty

think these are worth a read if you are about to embark on building a system

Agile Estimation and the Cone of Uncertainty
The Mysterious Cone of Uncertainty
Software Estimation and the Cone of Uncertainty