Collective #202
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Inspirational Website of the Week: The Grey Tales
A lovely experience with some fine effect details and great content. Our pick this week.
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Moving along a curved path in CSS with layered animation
Tobias Ahlin shows the brilliant way of using layered animations to effectively move elements along curved paths.
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Codepad
A great new community for developers who like to share code snippets and get/give feedback. With many useful snippets. Check out the About page for more details.
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mmxv
mmxv is a review of exceptional website designs spotted in 2015, collected and curated by Daniel Riemer.
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Variables: The Backbone Of CSS Architecture
Everything you need to know about using and working with variables in your Sass project. A guide by Karen Menezes.
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Feature.js
A very compact and easy-to-use browser feature detection JavaScript library made by Viljami Salminen.
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How Teespring uses Canvas, SVG, and the DOM to Design T-Shirts
A great look inside Teespring's T-Shirt designer that is powered by some modern web technology. By Justin McCandless.
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Free Font: Duwhoers Brush
Agga Swist'blnk designed this artistic brush font and you can get it for just a share.
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How to Learn ES6
Eric Elliott will show you the essential steps that will help you learn ES6 efficiently.
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Optimising SVGs for Web Use - Part 2½
Another useful part of a series by Andreas Larsen about how to optimize SVGs for the web.
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Unique gradient generator
Tibor Szász created this blurry background generator that's based on a smart technique.
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Superpowers
Superpowers is an open source HTML5 development environment for making 2D and 3D games.
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Timber! Vector Elements Set (AI, EPS)
Pavel Korzhenko designed these lovely vector elements inspired by Jack London's work.
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Developing a WordPress Theme from Scratch (Part 2)
A great tutorial by Tania Rascia on how to build a WordPress theme from scratch. Check out part 1, too.
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Free Font: Qanelas Soft (Extra Bold, Ultra Light)
A brilliant new font family designed by Radomir Tinkov. Get two of the styles for free.
Get it![Collective202_Scale_Amazon](https://codrops-1f606.kxcdn.com/codrops/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Collective202_Scale_Amazon.png?x25555)
A Beginner's Guide To Scaling To 11 Million+ Users On Amazon's AWS
An excellent article that will enlighten you on how scaling a system to more than 11 million users works. Written by Todd Hoff.
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Labelling Form Elements
Ire Aderinokun shows a couple of great tips on providing labels for form widgets.
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jQuery Cards
A repository of over 1000 quality jQuery plugins. Created and curated by Aaron Lumsden.
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SVGnest
An extremely useful, open source, browser-based tool for solving the irregular bin-packing problem for SVG shapes to optimize material use for cut outs.
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Free Font: BlowBrush
A creative hand written, marker style font designed by Petar Acanski for GraphicBurger.
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