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Devel is a module I can't live without these days. In my opinion, it's an invaluable part of building an maintaining Drupal sites. It makes it incredibly easy to peek inside data structures, inspect nodes and gather performance information, such as slow queries. My main problem with devel, however, is that it simply dumps its information on the bottom of a page. To improve the usability of devel, we here at Fuse Interactive, came up with the idea of Devel Catcher.
Over the last couple months at Fuse we have been looking at ways to streamline our process and our products so of course my area of concern is trimming the fat from our theming process. There's a few ways we can do this but one of the major concerns is keeping our file sizes down within the theme. If we look at the majority of our work in the last few years we have already eliminated a lot of bulk by using fewer images for element that contain custom fonts. Generally we have been going with system fonts for large areas of copy and using @font-face to load custom type faces.
