Bi-Weekly Frontend News

Collective #64

Inspirational Website of the Week

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Playground Inc. is our pick this week because of their stunning SVG animations.

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Common Patterns in Styleguides, Boilerplates and Pattern Libraries

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Following Dave Rupert's idea of "Tiny Bootstraps, for Every Client", Tyler Sticka from Cloud Four creates an incredibly useful spreadsheet which documents common patterns in existing frameworks.

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JavaScript Regular Expression Enlightenment

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Cody Lindley has put together this essential and excellent guide for JavaScript regular expressions.

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Polymer

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If you are excited about Web Components (you should be!) then you'll definitely be interested in this promising library.

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Providing The Best Mobile User Experience Possible

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Luca Passani gives us some great insights and tips on how to make the mobile user experience better.

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Codeblock.js

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Codeblock.js is a jQuery plugin for creating editable and runnable blocks of JavaScript code. This is especially useful for demos and API documentation.

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Design & Code (PSD)

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Diogo Dantas created this clean and elegant PSD website template. Great for customization and soon available coded in HTML & CSS.

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GUIFFF

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GUIFFF is a collection of animated GIF Dribbble shots. Absolutely superb for some fresh interaction inspiration.

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Label.css

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Label.css is a smart little style sheet that will make labeling any element a breeze. Made by Hossein Emrani.

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Intention vs. Interpretation: What Matters?

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Thomas Wendt dives into the concept of meaningful user experience and explains the importance of understanding the interplay between designer intention and user interpretation.

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Fitgrd Responsive Grid

Fitgrd is a light-weight responsive grid foundation for rapid prototyping built by abteilungweb.

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Multiple Select

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Multiple Select is a jQuery plugin that will create a check-box based select multi-select element.

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20 tips for building modern sites while supporting old versions of IE

Dave Methvin and Rey Bango give us a great overview of some useful best practices for developing modern websites while supporting old versions of Internet Explorer.

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WAAX (Web Audio API eXtension)

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WAAX is an experimental JavaScript library for music and audio programming built on top of Web Audio API in Chrome.

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Flat Icons (PNG)

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A huge set of flat-style icons from iconShock. You can get a free download link by signing up with your email address.

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Free Font: Yuma

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Yuma is an interesting, experimental font inspired by traditional Navajo textiles. Designed by Gumpita Rahayu.

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24 Flat Icons (PSD)

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Some really beautiful flat icons designed by Jan Dvořák for Premium Pixels.

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Handy Sass Mixins

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If you are using Sass, you'll definitely find these handy mixins by Jake Bresnehan interesting for your next project.

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On Scroll Device Changing

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Talented Peiwen Lu created this cool pen that changes the devices on scroll.

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CSS only 3d Macbook Air

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A awesome pen by Burak Can of a CSS-only MacBook Air with animation.

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Free Vector Device Icon Pack (PSD)

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A set of pixel-perfect popular media devices by Nathan Brown for WeGraphics.

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Free Font: Cool Weekdays

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Roland Hüse designed this packages inspired font and offers the thin italic style for free.

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7Min: A Quick Workout Timer

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And now it's time to get off your lazy programmer's butt and work out! You can do it in style with the help of this brilliant 7 minute workout timer.

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