These are exciting times for web typography, so this Friday Focus we’re looking at sites that excel particularly in that aspect. Enjoy!

This week’s Friday Focus features designs with pretty little birds in them. (No, this isn’t another collection of Twitter-related sites—only two of them are.)

The best online tutorials for PHP beginners.

Sometimes I will get to looking around the web for a script to do this or that. Inevitably I will come up short-handed and decide to code my own solution. The PHP + Javascript Start Page was one such project.

Need a calendar for your upcoming web project, nothing fancy, just a plain ol’ calendar to spice things up? Then this is the script for you, straight-forward and possible to attach to a database, for instance. Gerald walks us through it.

Lately, I have been working on a project with a group of developers that I found. In this modern day, security is a must. Several years ago security wasn’t a big deal, but now is a desperate time, and desperate times call for desperate measures. So let’s secure our apps!

Timestamps are standard on blog posts, but over time they can make posts seem “past their prime” when they’re really not. Learn how to de-emphasize the age of your blog entries with Movable Type.

In this day and age, there are many ways to transfer data between servers. One of the fastest, most popular, and easiest method is using the cURL library with the ability to work in many protocols, including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, WebDAV, and more. Let’s take a look at this, shall we?

There are ways to include files, and there are ways to include files, in Movable Type. The standard way certainly gets the job done, but it’s pretty slow when posting updates. Luckily, Billy knows the solution, and shares his template code with us in this tutorial.

So you’ve got your site all set up, but it looks a bit static. How about rotating a header image, or any image really, using PHP? It’s actually quite easy to implement and maintain, if you do it right. Kevin shows how in this PHP tutorial.

Have you ever thought of adding multiple languages to your website or have done so using methods such as creating separate directories for a completely new website with only that one language? It is easily possible through PHP.

Want to setup a photo gallery as fast as possible? Then Singapore is the solution for you, a simple PHP script that doesn’t force you to run databases and whatnot. Enter Brian Self, a new Devlounge contributor, and his howto guide to get you started right away.