Chapter 14

Adding More Little Touches

Guess what? We’re almost done with the main sample website!

We’ve come a long way in this tutorial: We’ve built a well-architected site in accordance with the DRY principle (Box 5.2), added pages with things like a hero image and a three-column layout, and included a simple blog. What else is there?

Well, if we want our site to look more professional and complete, we need to think about adding all those little details and final touches that really tie a site together, like a nice rug (to paraphrase the movie The Big Lebowski). We’ll cover the most important of these details in this chapter, including adding custom fonts and vector-based icons (Section 14.1), a favicon (Section 14.2), and title and meta-information ...

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