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Collective #12

Creative Free Fonts

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Cosmo Path Type by Filiz Sahin

Creative Free Fonts

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Navia Type by 21LAB

Creative Free Fonts

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Stroke Free Font by The Kinetic

Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point

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A solution on how responsive images can be put into practice is currently being discussed with the WHATWG and like Mat Marquis puts it "[t]he markup pattern that gets selected stands to have a tremendous influence on how developers build websites in the future. Not just responsive or adaptive websites, either. All websites."

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Inspirational Website of the Week

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The Urban Gap Web Agency will surprise you with all the animations and effects of the beautiful infographics when you scroll the page of the Urban 12 May Challenge.

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Creating a Mobile Web Application with Meta Tags

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Learn about meta tags and how they can be used to turn a website into a webapp.

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jQuery Verbose Calendar

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This calendar is not just another jQuery calendar. It's a very different approach to showing and using dates.

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Presenteer.js

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If you like Impress.js then you'll enjoy Presenteer.js. It's a very flexible HTML5 presentation tool that works in one line of code, but is configurable with constructor options and many callbacks.

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Freebie Button Pack (PSD)

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A really lovely button pack by Zan from Nine to Five.

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Weather Forecast Webapp

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Learn how to use Geolocation and Yahoo’s APIs to build a simple weather webapp.

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Keep your CSS selectors short

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Harry Roberts writes about how to make CSS selectors as dev-friendly as possible by keeping them short.

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screenfull.js

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A simple wrapper for cross-browser usage of the JavaScript Fullscreen API which lets you show a page or any element in fullscreen. The wrapper is useful for overcoming browser implementation differences.

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SASS vs. LESS

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Chris Coyier explains how and why SASS is his preferred choice when it comes to CSS preprocessor languages.

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The EU Cookie Law – what to do now

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Read this short guide that will help you understand what you have to do on your website in order to comply to the new EU Cookie Law.

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CSS Image Replacement for Retina Display Devices

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Learn about CSS Image Replacement Techniques and how to apply them in you mobile website project.

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Cookie Control

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Cookie Control enables you to comply with UK and EU law on cookies by obtaining a user's explicit consent for the use of cookies on their computer. There are several plugins available (Wordpress, Drupal, Magento) and you can customize it to your needs.

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jQuery Knob

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A slick downward compatible, touchable, jQuery dial.

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The Story of Send

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Ever wondered what happens when you click the "Send" button in Gmail? Well, now you can take this visually stunning journey and understand what happens to your message.

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HTML Shell

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HTML Shell is a custom boilerplate HTML5 markup generator. No more time wasted in copy pasting all those lines, now you can simply configure and generate it.

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HTML5 adaptive images: end of round one

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More about the responsive images solution proposal and the differences between <picture> and srcset.

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Twitter Bootstrap Button Generator

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If you are using Twitter Bootstrap you will love this little generator that let's you create the markup for a custom button.

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Complexify

Dan Palmer created this jQuery plugin that checks password sensibly, with an improved way of indicating password strength. It calculates a rating for the password based on how difficult it would be to brute-force it.

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World Map & Pin (PSD)

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Thom van der Weerd designed this beautiful freebie for Premium Pixels.

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