Collective #213
Inspirational Website of the Week: Founder Mantras
Sharp typography, clear colors and lovely details made us pick "Founder Mantras" as inspirational website of the week.
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PageCloud Brings Desktop Publishing To Your Browser
PageCloud finally gives you complete creative freedom for website creation. Drag and drop, with full access to the source code.
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Building the UI for the new The Times website
Some great and interesting insight by Pedro Duarte on how he re-built the UI for the website of the new 'The Times'.
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MapHub (beta)
With MapHub you can create interactive embedded maps, organize your geo-data and create guides.
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How to work with SVG icons
A great article that explains how the team at Kaliop uses SVG icons in HTML and CSS.
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How to make Multi-Layered Parallax Illustration with CSS & Javascript
Patryk Zabielski shows you how to create an awesome looking parallax illustration that is animated with CSS & JS.
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JavaScript Rounding Recipes
Dudley Storey shares some very useful rounding recipes in JavaScript.
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Design for Real Life
A great excerpt from Chapter 7 of Eric A. Meyer and Sara Wachter-Boettcher’s new book, Design for Real Life.
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Cleartext
A brilliant text editor for Mac that forces you to write easy readable text by only allowing the top 1000 most commonly used English words. Made by Morten Just.
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25 Design & Shapes Icons (AI, EPS, SVG, PNG)
A gorgeous set of 25 vector icons perfect for a design app theme. Made by Petr Knoll for Pixel Buddha.
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Free Font: KURBANISTIKA
Misha Priem designed this amazing looking typeface that was inspired by Lost City codes and Chinese handmade stamps.
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A Peek into my Games Industry Archive
Have a look into the jaw-dropping archive of game design by Aric Wilmunder!
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Introducing React Storybook
Arunoda Susiripala introduces React Storybook that lets you develop UI components outside your app and allow other people in your team to work on them.
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GLSL Particle Font
A fantastic experiment where a font is made out of a million particles. You can also save a high-res image of the words created. Made by ikeryou.
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eex
An awesome collection of web experiments built by Dennis Jin.
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How to Create a Pie Chart in Sketch
A great step-by-step tutorial by Marko Vuletič on how to draw pie charts in Sketch.
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HackerCafe
This is actually a great startup idea ;) A fun April Fool site by the HackerEarth team.
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The Holy Grail Layout with CSS Grid
Ire Aderinokun explores the new CSS Grid module and its possibilities by building the classic Holy Grail Layout.
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heymoji
A fun project that lets you add emoji reactions to your page. Inspired by Slack and Facebook reactions. Built by Henrique Alves.
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Moving from HTML Grid Systems to CSS Grid Systems
CSS grid systems have great advantages and Zell Liew explains how to move from a HTML grid system to a CSS based one.
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Five Designers Draw: One Icon
A very interesting experience on specifying icon design with some helpful insights.
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Free Font: Mina
A lovely brush typeface designed by Alyssa Wigant for her birthday and available for free. Happy Birthday, Alyssa!
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Building An Advanced WordPress Search With WP_Query
Carlo Daniele shows how to provide your WordPress installation with an advanced search system allowing the user to search and retrieve content from a specific custom post type, filtering results by custom taxonomy terms and multiple custom field values.
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