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Today is our 3rd birthday! Yay! Three years ago the first article was released on Codrops (let’s not mention what that was, alright?) and we have been enjoying releasing articles and tutorials ever since. Right now, we have 431 posts and 16,812 comments! We have more than 20,000 awesome followers on Twitter, over 9000 super-cool fans on Facebook and more than 4000 plusses on Google+!
We’ve made a little compilation in the form of a circular slider with some highlights of the past years (tutorials and development posts with demo). Check it out here:
3 Years of Codrops – Some Highlights
A blog would be completely pointless without its readers and we feel really privileged to have such an awesome audience, great fans and incredible supporters! Thank you for being awesome! 🙂
Special Thanks
There are so many people we want to say “thank you” to; some people helped us so tremendously that we’d like to shout out special thanks to them:
- The awesome team from Valcato Hosting for their constant and instant support. We’ve been with them from the very beginning on and they are an excellent hosting company.
- BuySellAds, especially Matthew Kammerer, Todd Garland and the whole support team for changing our lives by making Codrops profitable. This also allows us to offer everything for free.
- Vitaly Friedman and the team of Smashing Magazine for their support, the inspiration and for sharing and mentioning our work. Without them we’d not be the Codrops you know today.
- Paul Andrew from Speckyboy Design Magazine for inspiring us and supporting us by sharing our work.
- Dainis Graveris and the team of 1stwebdesigner for being great guys and for sharing our work
- Vandelay Design for their awesome inspiration and support.
- Web Design Ledger for their great round-ups and for mentioning us and spreading the word.
- Web Appers for adding us to their news and sharing our work.
- Web Resources Depot for sharing and featuring our work.
- Paul Irish for developing the greatest tools for the web and moving it forward and for sharing our work.
- Elijah Manor for being one of the first persons to share our works and help spreading the word.
- All our advertisers for supporting us and Mighty Deals for their great affiliate program.
- All the great artists and photographers who offer their work to be used freely.
- Subtle Patterns for stunning free patterns.
- The following people for being awesome (in no particular order), for their feedback and for help spreading the word, we love you for that: Holly Reynolds, Boris Rasonja, Jan Rajtoral, Nikola Lazarevic, Pablo Lara, Marco Kuiper, Desizn Tech, Dan Denney, Mike Lane, Brian Rinaldi, Matthieu Bué, Giuliano Ambrosio, Timothy Whalin, Paulund, Jamie Peak, DesignModo, Viktoriana, Anariel, Veerle Pieters, Pedro Rogério, Piervincenzo Madeo, Antonio Lupetti, and so many more! This list is surely incomplete and we are extremely sorry for everyone we didn’t mention!
… and of course, super special thanks to our awesome writers, guest authors and contributors who helped us grow Codrops:
- Patrick Cox
- Carrie Cousins
- Ring Wing
- Marcin Dziewulski
- Gisele Muller
- Sergio Camalich
- Alessio Atzeni
- Stéphanie Walter
- Tim Holman
- Tyler Craft
- Sergey Lukin
- Caleb Jacob
- Delwin Campbell
- Daniel Sternlicht
- Jay Salvat
- Kim Petersen
- Michael Donovan
- Brian S. Reed
- Kayla Knight
- Stelian Subotin
If you’d like to join this list of awesome contributors then contact us! We are constantly searching for great authors, innovative & creative minds and bold thinkers, designers and web developers.
Our plans for the future? Rock on! Make more creative web stuff and push the limits of web technologies and offer a broader spectrum of topics. Give us your feedback, we’d love to hear what you’d like to see on Codrops in the future.
We’ve received so many supportive emails and messages. People saying how they love our work and how it inspires them. We are extremely sorry if we sometimes cannot reply to all of you, we want you to know that it means a lot to us, that every email, contact form submission, tweet and message gets read and appreciated, they make it all worthwhile, THANK YOU, we love you!
Don’t forget to check out the circular slider compilation of some of our highlights:
3 Years of Codrops – Some Highlights
You can also download the source files of the slider.
With love,
your Codrops team
AMAZING!!!!
The best website for dummies, experts, hackers, bloggers, web designers, and all the people!.
You have by far the best tutorials among webdesign blogs. Keep it up.
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Happy Birthday CODROPS !! Maybe the best design adviser ever !!! Your website is AWESOME !! Please never stop it !!!!
Best Wishes and Happy Birthday to everyone at Codrops!
-Greeting on behalf of the Onextrapixel Team
Esta es una cación de feliz cumpleaños ! (ustedes deben poner la música)
Codrops, codrops, lo mejor en el mundo del diseño
Codrops, codrops, lo primero que veo al levantarme
Codrops, codrops, que sería de mi vida sin ellos
Codrops, codrops, todo lo que deseaba tener !
Happy birthday Codrops! I discovered this blog about a year ago now and have been checking in every day since. Love your articles and tutorials and hope that you continue to be awesome because your awesomeness helps my awesomeness!
p.s. – I noticed Mary Lou’s name was not mentioned in this article. I love her work and think she should definitely be mentioned here!
Parabéns gosto muito desde site desde que o descobri me ensinou muito.
Happy Birthday 🙂 Your Website and work is really great!!
Greetings from Germany 🙂
Congratulations, felicitacioens
a big part of my life how web designer change for your tutorials and info
THANKS A LOOOTT !!!!
Congratulations Codrops team!
imagination and creativity that inspires me today is because of you, because your work and dedication motivation remains for the future of this new generation of creative! Total Thanks!
Congratulation!
Thank you for all the help and inspiration, you’ve provided.
Happy Birthdayyyy CO Drops :)))
Congrats Mary and team!
This is one of my favourite sites on the internet…
Happy bday CODROPS :))))
Congrats Codrops! Truly one of the best sources for digital design. Hope to see you guys stick around for a long time! Keep up the great work.
Congratulation Codrops!
Happy Birthday Codrops!! You guys are still my FAVORITE email newsletter!! Keep up the great work guys.
Thank you all so very much for your birthday wishes! We really appreciate it! Hope you all have a great week and all the best from the Codrops team!! Cheers, ML
Congratulations!! you guys are “los Mas Fregones” (meaning The best of)
Te?ekkürler. Thank you for all the help and inspiration
You are awesome!
Happy Birthday~ o(?v?)o~~
=3= come on baby~
Heart Congrats… Codrops is a great source to get inspired and to learn a lot. I am a big fan of Codrops. Luv U. Thank you very much.
congrats codrops team 🙂 more useful and great tutorials ..
Happy Birthday Codrops
Happy birthday, u’re the best 🙂
Thank you for the best website regarding development and design on the internet!
Merci pour vos travaux.
Cordialement,
Joyeux anniversaire codrops team je vous souhaite tout le succès possible et surtout continuez à faire du bon boulot vous êtes géniaux
Happy b-day. Ya the best..
Love this site and all the sweet CSS3 stuff you put out…
Happy Birthday Codrops! Keep up this great work!
Great work! Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday! You guys ROCK!!!!
Se que todo el mundo habla en ingles……pero mi mensaje es tan personal que te lo quiero dar en mi idioma…………..Felicitaciones codrops, no te imaginas lo importante que has sido en mi carrera profesional todos tus aportes, la verdad es que sin esta pagina no creo que hubiera elegido como profesion el diseño web……me encanta todo lo que haces, cada post que copias en esta pagina se nota que es un trabajo inmenso y no te importa regalar el source code, lo que me parece aun mas genial y mas admirable que todos los que quieren ganar dinero siempre.
Muchas gracias te deseo otros 999999 años de existencia…….Saludos y muchas bendiciones desde Colombia
Happy Nirthday Codrops! Keep up this great work! I like Codrops, and recommend to a lot of Chinese friends
Happy Birthday Codrops.. you guys have done such a great job. I Love this site and has helped like tons of times. So keep up the good work 🙂
Happy Birthday Codrops !!!
A superb site, with priceless content. Love you Codrops.
And thanks for such a wonderful learning website.
Felicidades!! Este es uno de mis blogs de diseño favoritos y no es sólo por su diseño, sino por sus contenidos y su forma de explicar las cosas. Enhorabuena!!
Happy Birthday Codrops!! You guys have done an ultimate job. Tons of thanks for all your tips, wonderful tutorials and articles. Keep up the good work and keep going on 🙂
Happy Birthday!!! Wish you guys all the best wishes as you wish! and Thanks for all prospect you give us as a preciousness gift for all along these years 😀
Un grand merci et un joyeux anniversaire à un site de qualité !
I always read your posts and check the site daily, i’ve learnt so much from the tutorials and i’m sure you have many more years ahead of you! 😀
Happy Birthday!!
Thanks for the great articles and tutorials!!
Keep doing the same good stuff
For many more years!!
From Catalonia
Dan
You guys provide the best tutorials and content. Good luck, looking forward to more awesomeness. Keep it up.
Love from Desizn Tech
Happy Birth Day!!!
You are so awesome guys… Keep inspiring Web
Congratulations!!! Great page and tutorials.
Desde España os doy las gracias por poner al alcance de todos lo último en diseño web. Vuestros tutoriales son magníficos. Congratulations!
(From Spain I say you thank you for making available to all people the latest in web design. Your tutorials are great.)