Pronto is a rather awesome little jQuery plugin I’ve just implemented in my site. In the words of the plugin’s author, Ben Plum:
Using a “partial page load” technique, Pronto reduces the over all server load and font-end render time by only updating pieces of a page instead of the entire document.
The initial setup can be a bit fiddly, but I’ve found it to be pretty smooth sailing once it’s all set up. Well worth checking out.
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@font-face is an amazing tool for providing custom fonts on the web. There are a couple of ways to do add fonts to a site. The first is by usng a service like TypeKit to serve the fonts for you. The second is to use a service like FontSquirrel to convert them for you. FontPrep is a Mac App that lets you do this from the comfort of your computer, all for a mere $5. Sold.
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Globally Recognized Avatars, AKA Gravatars, serve as a really easy way to implement avatars that are attached to your email address, not to an account on a site. It makes setting up avatars on sites simpler and gives people better control over what appears on sites. It’s pretty awesome and, if you’ve not already registered an account with them you really should.
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Symbolset is a rather awesome semantic font (soon to be collection of fonts) for use on the web and elsewhere. What’s so awesome about it? Write twitter and get the twitter icon. If a browser doesn’t support the font, then they get the word twitter, as opposed to a random character. Awesome stuff. $30. Sold. Get yours now.
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Highlight.js is another code highligher. It’s a bit more detailed than Google Code Prettify and pays for this in size. You can combat this by tailoring exactly what languages you want to highlight. I’m currently using this to highlight code on various pages throughout my site. Check it out.
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