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Collective #4

jQuery Scroll Path

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Joel Besada created an amazing plugin which you can use to define custom scroll paths to achieve stunning scroll effects.

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Responsive Navigation Menu

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Learn how to create a stylish and responsive navigation menu in this tutorial.

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Camera jQuery Slideshow

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This responsive slideshow uses a light version of jQuery mobile, making it possible to navigate the slides by swiping. It comes with some beautiful transitions and skins and it can be used in fullscreen, too.

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Responsive Web Design: Missing the Point

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Another great article by Brad Frost where he's setting the misconception about responsive web design straight: responsiveness is not some hip new feature - it's a necessity for creating cross-device functioning web sites and optimal user experiences.

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Free Icons from Dribbble

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Glyph UI Icon Set by Matt Gentile

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50 Free Delicious Berries Icons by Oliviu Stoian

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350 Free vector web icons (Freebie) by Brankic1979

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Max Mini Icon by Ashung Hung

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Free Calendar Icons by Gerardo Diaz

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Free Button & Icon Exploration by Ryan Le Roux

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FREEBIE - Vector Icon 3 Pack by Caleb Amesbury

Wookmark jQuery Plugin

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If you've visited wookmark.com already, you probably know their dynamic grid layout. Now the folks of Wookmark have released a free jQuery plugin that does exactly that.

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Kalendae: JavaScript Date Picker

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This framework independent date picker comes with many great features. It uses moment.js to parse the dates and it's easily customizable.

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Moment.js

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Moment.js is a lightweight JavaScript date library for parsing, manipulating, and formatting dates. It makes it super-easy to calculate with and display dates even in multiple languages.

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Retro Triangular Pattern Design

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Another great tutorial by Chris Spooner. Learn how to create a cool retro pattern in Illustrator.

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tQuery: three.js + jQuery

tQuery is an extension to the JavaScript 3D library three.js, making it easy to share and build stuff using three.js.

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Pure CSS Clickable Events

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Ryan Collins shows us how to simulate a click event on an element using only CSS. With a combination of :active an :hover a clicked element will expand and stay expanded until we move out with the mouse. That's just super-clever!

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Respect Thy Typography

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In this Smashing Magazine article, Espen Brunborg takes us on a journey and tells us how good typography is not just making letters look fancy but understanding and paying some respect to the long evolution behind the typefaces we're using today.

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Using "Infinite" Transition Delays

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Joel Besada explains how one can maintain CSS style states using super long transition delays. You wouldn't believe what you can do with that amazing trick!

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Create a Responsive Web Design with Media Queries

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Learn from Chris Spooner how to use media queries to create a responsive web design.

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Inception Explained

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Scroll this uncredibly creative website to understand the underlying logic of the movie "Inception". A wonderful creation by Matt Dempsey that will blow your socks off!

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For a Future-Friendly Web

Brad Frost encourages us in his article to realize how important it is to move forward and become more future friendly when creating content for the rapidly changing web.

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