Bi-Weekly Frontend News

Collective #120

Inspirational Website of the Week: Sismo Design, studio de design et innovation

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A fantastic experience full of well-planned effects and a brilliant color scheme. Our pick this week.

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Outdated Browser

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A really nice project by Büro that gives users an incentive to update their outdated browser.

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Odyssey.js

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A mind-blowing library to help journalists, bloggers, and other people on the web publish stories that combine narratives with maps and map interactions. Made by CartoDB.

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Everything You Need to Know About the CSS will-change Property

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An insightful article by Sara Soueidan on the new "will-change" property — a property that will help us write performance-optimized code.

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Type Sample

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A great tool for identifying and sampling web fonts.

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bounce.js

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A very useful tool for rapidly creating CSS3 powered animations for elements. Made by Joel Besada.

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Sable Kit Free (AI, EPS, PNG)

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A great freebie with some creative elements for your next design, by PixelBuddha.

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Building a responsive SVG map

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An excellent article by BBC News developer Tian Yuan on how to create responsive SVG maps for data driven visual components as part of the 2014 local and european elections.

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100 Free Icons (PSD, AI, Webfont)

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One hundred excellent vector based icons designed by Piotr Makarewicz.

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Starnight HTML5/CSS3 Website Template

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A stunning website template coded by talented Peter Finlan and designed by Blaz Robar.

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Emulators written in JavaScript

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A super-cool compilation of emulators written in JavaScript by Frederic Cambus.

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Boba.js

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Boba.js is a small and extensible JavaScript library that makes working with Google Analytics easier. Created by space150.

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<github-card>

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A web component made by Guille Paz for showing a Github profile card.

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Getting Started with Browserify

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A detailed guide on getting started with Browserify by Patrick Catanzariti from Sitepoint.

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Free Font: Draft Display

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A beautiful and unique display typeface by Camille San Vicente.

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CSS Gradients with background-blend-mode

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A collection of cool CSS gradients that are made using the new background-blend-mode property. Curated by Bennett Feely.

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Keylight

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An amazing audio rhythm experiment that let's you play sounds by placing key notes in a room. Made by Hakim El Hattab.

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Share: The Icon No One Agrees On

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Min Ming Lo analyzes one of the most non-agreed-upon icons in the history of the web: the share icon.

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100 Free Icons (SVG, PNG, PSD & AI)

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Martin J.Berthelsen shares this fantastic set of one hundred pixel-perfect line icons.

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Icebreaker (PSD)

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A pixel-perfect set of desk items designed by Cory Ehrenberg.

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Sharing Data Between Sass and JavaScript with JSON

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Nate Hunzaker from Viget shows how to import variables as JSON into Sass.

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