Collective #137
Inspirational Website of the Week: Squarespace Seven
The Squarespace 7 presentation is a celebration of well-timed interactive animations. A delightful scrolling experience! Our pick this week.
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CSS turns 20
20 years ago Håkon Wium Lie wrote a proposal for Cascading HTML style sheets. Read this interesting interview with him on the Dev.Opera blog.
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Student Developer Pack
Fantastic news for students: GitHub offers free access to the best developer tools in one place.
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Sound City Project
A wonderful project that aims to give you a more realistic feeling of a place through 3D sound. Check out the JavaScript on GitHub.
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Intro to WebGL with Three.js
David S. Lyons' slides from his great talk on WebGL with Three.js.
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Making Better Select Elements with jQuery and CSS3
Martin Angelov shows how to create rich and great-looking select elements with jQuery and CSS3 magic.
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Rounded Animated Navigation
An experimental full-screen navigation, animated using CSS and jQuery, that expands within a circle.
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Free Font: Pirou
Pirou by Quentin Grébeude is beautiful, experimental outline typeface inspired by Didot.
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A Front-End Developer’s Ode To Specifications
Dmitriy Fabrikant's interesting analysis on how specifications can help build the right product more quickly and more efficiently.
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Miami MLS Team
The fantastic result of Diego Guevara's challenge to develop a complete branding case study in under a week.
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Training the CMS
A very insightful article by Eileen Webb on three principles that will help create solid CMS content guidelines for authors.
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How I Resurrected My Creative Spirit
A very inspirational article on how Joseph Le reached a new level of creativity with some bad-ass drawing explorations.
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Hacker News API
Hacker News data becomes available in near real time with the official API.
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Thought Plan
A great minimalistic tool for planning projects, organizing thoughts and storing simple documents.
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Loading webfonts with high performance on responsive websites
Adam Beres-Deak explains how webfont loading performance can be optimized with this technique.
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Icons Of Autumn (50 Icons, EPS)
A lovely set of autumn-related icons designed by Nick Botner.
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ACNPL\WGL
ACNPL\WGL stands for ACTIVATION NODEPLUS Lab, a digital laboratory of slick ideas and Canvas/WebGL interactions.
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SVG Viewing & Diffing
In GitHubs words: "In the spirit of making diffs of rich information easier to parse, SVG images are now viewable and diffable on GitHub!"
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kindddred
See your Dribbble "family tree" on this fun website. It will show you invite relations between players.
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