WordPress Plugin for Google Fonts – and Other News
I haven’t made a post in a while and I wanted to give you an update on some of my projects. You may have heard about Google’s announcment of a Google Font Directory and the Google Font API. It is huge news for the web and finally we are one step closer to font freedom (That link takes you to a post I wrote 4 years ago!). Yes, this might be the final nail in the coffin for my Font Burner project, but I welcome a real solution to the lack of rich typography options on the web. I expect to release one final Font Burner update before closing the doors on that project.
As soon as I heard Google’s font service announcement I started working on a WordPress Google Fonts Plugin to make it even easier for WordPress users to take advantage of the Gooogle font service. My plugin will be available in the WordPress plugin directory as soon as I get it approved. I will add the link here the instant it goes live.
The reason I have been silent lately is that I have been finishing another chess project that I will hopefully be announcing soon. It is a service that makes it really easy to share chess games with friends using Facebook and other social sites. It has been a fun project and I can’t wait to get it launched. Again, stay tuned.
The other big news is that I just completed a switch to a new web host. If you have been experiencing any outage on this or any of my other sites I apologize. I am moving from Media Temple to DreamHost. I will hopefully post a more detailed comparison of the two companies in the near future, but to make a long story short, Media Temple has been hitting me really hard with GPU overages and it didn’t make financial sense to stay with them. Not to mention they allowed my site to get hacked. And my sites have been intolerably slow. Yeah, I am not a happy camper. However, things are good so far with Dreamhost.
That’s all I can say for now. As always, thanks for stopping by, and next time I will have a real post and not just more teasers. I promise…
