There is no easier way to instantly class-up your website then web fonts. I feel like any site that isn’t using a web font service is behind the times. The standard web fonts just look so old and blah.
Adobe bought typekit a few years ago, and now they have over 500 fonts available for free! So you’ve got no excuse not to use new web fonts
https://edgewebfonts.adobe.com/
This is great to see that someone finally took the time to update favicon generators. Favicons have really evolved in the past couple years with different devices utilizing them. I think it’s getting a bit ridiculous that to fully utilize favicons for all the devices these days you have to have about 10 images (thus adding 10 lines of code to your pages). But, so is the way of progress.
These days it seems like performance is an after though – but it really shouldn’t be. If a page takes longer than a second to load, most users will start looking the other way.
Great article on the little things you can do to make your site load a lot faster:
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2013/01/22/css-performance-debugging-naming-conventions/
Even though I’ve only been in the web community since about 2002, there has been a huge growth in the community. There are so many forums, blogs and online magazines available – and sharing knowledge and experiences has become a huge piece of what makes working on the web awesome.
One series that I’ve been reading for years is Web Advent (formerly known as PHP Advent). The series features an article written by a guest each day about a different topic that is web development related. I learned a ton last year, and the 2 posts this year are great. Do yourself a favor and read it daily this month!