Bi-Weekly Frontend News

Collective #24

Free Font: Citizen Slab

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A stunning vintage font by Joel Felix.

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Inspirational Website of the Week

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Banger's is our choice for this weeks web design inspiration. It has great colors and textures and awesome typography. Beautiful details and a sexy fixed header. Exquisite work by Neighborhood Studio.

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Designing For Device Orientation: From Portrait To Landscape

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A great article by Avi Itzkovitch about device orientation and it's challenges and opportunities for creating a better user experience.

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Magazine-like Layout for the Web with CSS Regions and Exclusions

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Christian Cantrell gives us a great overview and tutorial about CSS Regions and CSS Exclusions.

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The Bricks: User Interface Framework

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The Bricks is a set of free user interface components aimed to facilitate the creation of designs and prototypes of websites.

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Meny: 3D Menu Concept

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Another great new component by Hakim El Hattab: an experimental CSS 3D fold-in menu.

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Free Nautical Vector Set

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James Viola offers this great set of nautical vector shapes for free.

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Adaptor: jQuery Content Slider

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Adaptor is a light-weight, extensible content slider by Phil Parsons. It aims to provide a simple interface for developers to create cool 2D or 3D slide animation transitions.

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HTML5 & CSS3 Fundamentals

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Bob Tabor teaches you the fundamentals of HTML5 & CSS3 programming in these 21 video episodes.

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jBar: jQuery Call-to-Action Bar

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jBar is a simple and lightweight jQuery notification banner created by Todd Motto. It is an alternative to the Hellobar and it allows you to create a simple call-to-action bar at the top of a website.

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Fine UI Kit (free PSD)

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An elegant UI Kit by Michael Reimer for Vandelay Design. Free for personal and commercial projects.

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Introducing CSS Blending

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Rik Cabanier introduces blending for CSS, a newly proposed and useful feature that will allow for different blending modes and interaction between elements.

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Free Slab Serif Font: Sreda

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Fontfabric type foundry gives us another great free font: Sreda, a slab serif font designed by Elena Kowalski.

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Create CSS3

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Create CSS3 is a great online tool by Jason Stockton that let's you generate vendor prefixed CSS. The new version has support for many new CSS3 properties. Read more about it here.

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CSScomb: CSS Properties Sorter

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CSScomb is an absolutely amazing tool for sorting CSS properties in a pre-defined order. There is an online tool and extensions for several text editors.

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Dynamic Light Special FX Brushes

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A superb free brush set from WeGraphics for creating waves of special effects lighting.

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DbNinja for MySQL

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With DbNinja you can access and administer your MySQL server from anywhere using a browser.

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How To Create a Pure CSS Dropdown Menu

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Chris Spooner shows you step-by-step how to create an elegant dropdown menu just with CSS.

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“Old” Flexbox and “New” Flexbox

Chris Coyier gives us an update on the current state of the CSS Flexible Box Layout Module which has undergone a lot of changes in the last three years.

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