Collective #150
Inspirational Website of the Week: Wonderful Colorado
A beautiful design with excellent typography and a clean layout. Our pick this week.
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Flexbugs
A list of cross-browser flexbox issues and their workarounds. Based on this article by Phil Walton.
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Zero element loading animations
A great pseudo-elements method for adding CSS loading animations without additional markup. By Mike Riethmuller.
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3D Curtain Template
A great tutorial on how to create a beautiful layout with a curtain-like effect on scroll. By Claudia Romano from CodyHouse.
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How we use web fonts responsibly, or, avoiding a @font-face-palm
Some very useful methods for including web fonts more efficiently. An article by Zach Leatherman from the Filament Group.
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TheaterJS
With TheaterJS you can have typing effects that mimic human behavior. Made by Gabin Aureche.
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The Guide to Mockups
A free e-book that will teach you about different mockup types, methods and best practices.
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Sass Guidelines
An in-depth guide on how to write maintainable and scalable Sass by Hugo Giraudel.
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Quick tip: conditional form fields with CSS
A valuable break down of using the :checked pseudo class and the adjacent sibling selector for showing conditional elements by Christian Heilmann.
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Creating Your First Desktop App With HTML, JS and Node-WebKit
Danny Markov shows you how to get started with Node-WebKit for creating a desktop app.
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365 awesome designers
365 awesome designers is a small project by WILD, where they post one designer each day for one year.
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Dashel Icon Set (45 Icons, SVG, PSD, PNG)
An absolutely gorgeous free icon set made by Matt Skiles for Smashing Magazine.
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Canvas, images and pixels
A tutorial by Christian Heilmann that explains some of the features of Logo-O-Matic, with detailed information on how to manipulate pixel images in Canvas. Read more about it here.
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Designing For Print With CSS
An interesting article by Rachel Andrew on designing for print with CSS including formatting books, catalogs and brochures.
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The Core Model: Designing Inside Out for Better Results
A great article by Ida Aalen on how a "homepage last" or core model approach for designing a website can help getting things done better.
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Cross-tab Communication
Nicolas Bevacqua explores cross-browser cross-tab communication using localStorage. He has also put together a module, local-storage, that provides a simplified API to localStorage.
The God Login
How would God build a login dialog? Jeff Atwood shares his experience with building the login for Discourse.
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Introduction to HTML Imports
Learn about HTML Imports, what they are and how to use them. An article by Eiji Kitamura.
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Free Font: Wild Spaces
Wild Spaces is a beautiful font for outdoor related designs. Made by Nathan Brown for WeGraphics.
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