Collective #220
Inspirational Website of the Week: Jürgen Hassler
Jürgen Hasslers website has a sophisticated and modern design with the right amount of animations. Our pick this week.
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Segment: Simplify your analytics
Segment makes it dead simple to collect data and send it to your favorite tools for analytics, marketing, or data warehousing.
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Web Image Effects Performance Showdown
Una Kravets compares the performance of different image effects from CSS filters to canvas and blend modes.
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The Rich (Typefaces) Get Richer
An interesting article on why only a small set of typefaces are used everywhere. By Jeremiah Shoaf.
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Kajero
Easily create good-looking, responsive and interactive documents that can be edited in-line. Made by Joel Auterson.
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Plyr (Update)
We've reported about this great media player before in Collective 157 and now it has been updated with extremely good features.
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Happy Cog Starter Files 2016
Allison Wagner introduces the new and improved website starter files that are used by Happy Cog.
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Lazy Loading Images? Don't Rely On JavaScript!
Robin Osborne shows how to do progressively enhanced lazy loading images.
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Make a Responsive Animated Walk Cycle with SVG and CSS steps()
Dudley Storey shows how to create an animated walk cycle utilizing CSS animation steps().
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Refactoring a JavaScript Video Store
Martin Fowler explores four ways of refactoring in JavaScript with practical example of a video store.
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Intro to the Web Animations API
A useful primer to the Web Animations API by Pawel Grzybek.
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Cutestrap
Cutestrap is a compact CSS framework by Tyler Childs made as a tiny Bootstrap alternative.
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Checkbox.css
A tiny set of CSS animations for your checkboxes.
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CSS coding techniques
Belén Albeza gives some useful tips on how to write easier-to-maintain CSS.
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CSS Purge
See who's the forerunner in bloated CSS on the web and learn from insightful stats how to improve your large project stylesheets.
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Visual Center
A tool that will find the visual center of your images.
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Free Font: Arkana
An elegant font made by Maulana Creative for PixelBuddha.
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Push
A compact, cross-browser solution for using the JavaScript Notifications API. By Tyler Nickerson.
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universal.css
Robin Bressan makes a wisecrack on the phenomenon of "utlity-classitis" with this fun repo.
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Free Font: Skybird Rough
A very creative wild font designed by Philip Trautmann for Freebiesbug.
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Food & Drinks Icon Set (AI, PNG, SVG)
Some delicious food and drink icons designed by Iconshock for GraphicBurger.
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How To Create a Music Festival Poster Design in Photoshop
Chris Spooner gives a master class in Photoshop that will enable you to create an artsy poster in no time.
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