Collective #169
Inspirational Website of the Week: DreamTeam Katarzyna Konkowska
A stunning web experience with smooth animations and an explosion of creativity. Our pick this week.
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Art-Directing SVG Images With The viewBox Attribute
A brilliant article by Sara Soueidan on how to use the SVG viewBox attribute for effortless art direction.
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SmartIcons
A fantastic icon app and system that will give you more freedom for styling and using SVG icons.
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Revisiting :Visited
A great article on the forgotten and underused :visited pseudo-class by Joel Califa.
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Bukku: HTML/CSS Template
A gorgeous HTML template with PSD by Filip Petrovic and Luka Cvetinovic. Have a look at the preview.
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Simplify Your Stylesheets With The Magical CSS Viewport Units
Learn how to utilize the super-useful viewport units. A tutorial by Danny Markov from Tutorialzine.
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The End of Global CSS
A brilliant article by Mark Dalgleish on how to achieve true modularization of CSS with WebPack.
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Testing For And With Windows Phone
Daniel Herken shows some tips and tools for testing with a Windows Phone.
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The Ryanair approach to progressive enhancement
An enlightening article by Christian Heilmann with a brilliant analogy to progressive enhancement.
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Free Font: Ikaros
Matt Ellis designed this beautiful typeface and offers it for free.
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231 Micons (AI, SVG)
A lovely set of 231 clean icons desgined by Cosmin Negoita for Iconjar.
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Illustrized
A really cool Google Experiment by Yuichiroh Arai's with WebGL and web cam input.
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Easy Cross-Browser Text Masks with Blend Modes
Dudley Storey's smart text-clipping technique using CSS Blend Modes.
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Awesome - A curated list of awesome lists
An awesome curated list of awesome curated lists by Sindre Sorhus :)
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How to make a carousel using only HTML and CSS (no JavaScript required!)
Dan Cortes' nice solution for a carousel without JavaScript.
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If you can draw these three shapes, you can draw the Internet
A great tutorial by James Buckhouse on how to draw anything with three basic shapes.
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Extending Styles
Following Simurai's article on how to extend styles, Philip Walton shares his thoughts on the topic.
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Getting Dicey With Flexbox
A brilliant way to understand and learn flexbox: Landon Schropp shows how to create dice faces using flexbox.
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Using canvas to fix SVG scaling in Internet Explorer
A clever canvas-based hack for fixing SVG scaling in IE by Nicolas Gallagher.
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Making the transition from animating in After Effects to CSS
Not from this week but definitely worth a read if you use AE: Ryan Brownhill guides you through the transition of animating in AE to CSS.
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