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A Wordpress “Lorem Ipsum Test Post” Pack

When I work with WordPress to create a new website, I often find myself having to make a lot of dummy posts to test out themes layouts and styles. But it can become very boring to do it every time you work on a new theme.
So I found last week a post pack made by Nick Pagano on ThinkDesignBlog.com who offer us to download an useful pack with posts, pages and categories for testing everything.
Thanks to him!

Font Comparer - A tool for Google Font-Face.

Font Comparer is an on-line tool which allows to compare easily the various font proposed by Google Font Web, with texts and customizable styles.
Indeed, since CSS3 who brought the property so expected from integrators (@font-face), it is henceforth possible to use any font on its web site, even if the visitor does not have this last one on its own computer.
So, Google proposes a directory of font, varied and ready for use, but it is not necessarily easy to choose the good font. It is there that Font Comparer intervenes by displaying the depiction of all the font of Google Font Web in live.

<link href=’http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=<;span id=”urlFamily”>Quattrocento+Sans</span>’ rel=’stylesheet’ type=’text/css’>

Which is equivalent in:

@font-face {
    font-family: ‘Quattrocento Sans’;
    font-style: normal;
    font-weight: normal;
    src: local(‘Quattrocento Sans’), local(‘QuattrocentoSans’), url(‘http://themes.googleusercontent.com/font?kit=efd6FGWWGX5Z3ztwLBrG9b2aU247V0zTzydO4RoO9Ok’) format(‘woff’);
}

How 90s is your website ?

“How 90s” as the name suggests, allows the webmaster to check whether their site is blocked in the 90’s. The audit includes all the functionality which have made the sites of 90 years and are now obsolete.
You just need to enter the site URL and it will check for you if there are devices such as tables, frames, marquees, click counter, etc., and therefore decide how much of this site always follows the old rules.
The site also has what he calls the “League of Shame” which includes a list of sites that desperately need to redo their design.