Moderno v1.0 Premium WordPress Theme

Moderno has a beautifully simple, yet exquisite design with many subtle nuances that make it stand out from the crowd. An optional two or three column layout with an infinite number of color and font possibilities make it easy to create a truly original look for your Web site. Go crazy placing your favorite widgets in up to three widgetized locations. Select a standardized Web font or get a little more creative with one of ten pre-installed @font-face kits.

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Embedding Fonts in your Web Site with CSS and @font-face

One of the winners of a free copy of Magazine Premium (see this article) suggested implementing @font-face kits to the theme. I had read about @font-face but never actually attempted to use it before. I did a bit more research and finally figured it out. Now 10 @font-face kits are available with Magazine Premium and I thought it would be a good idea to show you how I did it.

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Creating a jQuery Plugin to Increase Font Size

I have been spending a bit of time lately figuring out how to create my own plugins for jQuery. It doesn’t take much to accomplish and I thought it would be a good idea to put together a small tutorial to show everyone just how easy it can be. For this example, I will create a plugin to increase the font size of a selected div when a link is clicked.

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Turn Text into an Image using the PHP GD Library

While developing a site for a client, I needed to figure out a way to convert certain text elements into images. I had no clue how to do this but after doing a bit of research, I discovered a nifty library of functions already available through PHP. The GD library offers tons of cools way to dynamically create PNG, JPEG or GIF files and output them directly to your browser, but you need to make sure that your server has the library enabled.

You can check to see if the GD library available on your server by placing the code:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

into a test.php file and uploading it to your site’s main directory. Open the file online and look to see if GD Support is Enabled. If it is, you are good to go.

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