Recently on a new project a great piece of work was brought to my attention. A great javascript based text replacement solution called Cufon. Simply put, its great. Very little effort to intergrate, even less effort to control. Not even that much slow down on page load.

Visit here to get the lowdown

As its javascript and kicks after the page loads, it degrades gracefully if not supported. As well as leaving all the juicy web text for the web spiders to nibble on.

The only thing to be wary of is licensing issues, but hey check out this great example of Cufon in action.

I’m focusing on wordpress for now as its more suitable to my needs but i thought i’d leave this here.

http://indexhibit.org/forum/thread/2891/

/*Expanding Menus for Indexhibit  *uses jquery  *  *Created by Ross Cairns Mar 2008 modified by Benjamin Ashcroft Jan 2009*/

function expandingMenu(num) {

var speed = 200;

var item_title = $("#menu ul").eq(num).children(":first");
var items = $("#menu ul").eq(num).children().filter(function (index) { return index > 0; });
/* hide items if not active */
if (items.is(".active") == false) {
items.hide();
}

/* add click functions + pointer to title */
item_title.css({cursor:"pointer"}).hover(
function () {
items.slideToggle(speed);
})
item_title.css({cursor:"pointer"}).toggle(
function () {
items.hide(speed);
}, function () {
items.show(speed);
})

}