Collective #147
Inspirational Website of the Week: Demodern
This week we picked Demodern, an elegant and modern agency website with some great effects.
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Creating an animated gif in Illustrator & Photoshop
In this fantastic in-depth tutorial, Veerle Pieters teaches how to create animated GIFs in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
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SVG animated Christmas card
A beautiful SVG animation for Christmas by Petr Tichy.
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Flickity
David DeSandro is making a carousel/slider/gallery library and blogging about the progress. The resulting articles are full of great things to learn. Check out the latest one, Wrapping around Flickity for infinite looping, and be sure to follow the links in the end of the entry to the previous posts.
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Flexbox adventures
A great article with some practical examples for flexbox by Chris Wright.
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Christmas Icon set (EPS)
A super-cute and beautiful Christmas icon set by Dasha for Yalantis.
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CSS Animated Headlines
A great tutorial on how to create smooth animated headlines with CSS transitions by Sebastiano Guerriero from CodyHouse.
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What colour is it?
If you see a dev one day showing you his wristwatch that just shows a color, you'll know where that idea came from! :)
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Tips For Optimising SVG Delivery For The Web
Sara Soueidan will show you how to optimize SVGs for better page performance in this article on Performance Calendar.
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Material UI Colors
Pick Material Design colors easily with this useful color picker made by DesignInspiro.
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Recreating the Firewatch Parallax Effect
How the parallax effect can still be done right sometimes: an interesting investigation by Hamish Macpherson.
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Streetlights
A fabulous demo of Christmas streetlights by Einar Öberg.
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jQuery 1.11.2 and 2.1.3 Released
Solid new jQuery releases with a significant bug fix/patch for Safari.
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Super-Looper
An amazing looper experiment that lets you play with touch and record loops!
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Free Icons Bundle (PSD, PNG, SVG)
A great set of free icons from various sets by PixelBuddha.
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Dragonfish
An surreal and captivating demo by Cabbibo with great sound.
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Free Font: Audimat 3000 Regulier
Audimat 3000 by Jack Usine is an interesting DIN-like typeface with a quirky touch. The regular style is available for free.
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Web Components & the Future of CSS
A really awesome talk by Philip Walton on how bright the future of CSS will look like thanks to Web Components.
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Typecast Becomes a Free Web Design Tool
What a great Christmas surprise: the fantastic web typography toolkit becomes free. Thank you, Typecast!
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Shadertoy
A shout-out to Shadertoy, where you can build and share WebGL shaders and get inspired.
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Better webfont loading with using localStorage and providing WOFF2 support
Adam Beres-Deak releases an optimized version of his Web font loading script and provides a solution for WOFF2 support for the newest browsers.
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