Bi-Weekly Frontend News

Collective #26

Inspirational Website of the Week

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From the Front 2012: The Treasure of FrontEnd Island, Front-End Conference is our pick this week. Awesome animations and transitions.

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Dark UI Music Player Design (PSD)

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A beautifully detailed free design resource by Pixeden.

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Towards A Retina Web

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Reda Lemeden explains the basics and the challenges that are arising from the new wave of high-resolution display standards and how to tackle the challenges when designing for multiple display densities.

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Free Font: Casper

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Michael Chereda shares his latest font experiment with us: the Casper typeface. It's a delicate, clean and readable font with some beautiful ligatures.

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Parallax Background Builder

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A great WYSIWYG tool for creating your own parallax background. It has a great user interface and is easy-to-use.

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Doodle Jump HTML5 Game

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A re-creation of the Doodle Jump using HTML5 Canvas. It does not have all the features like the original game but it's a great experiment and a lot of fun!

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oriDomi: Fold up the DOM like paper

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Dan Motzenbecker developed this great script that lets you fold up elements like paper. It has no dependencies and is very light-weight.

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FitWeird Bookmarklet

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Paravel gives us yet another useful tool: a bookmarklet that tells you the dimensions of your window in PX and EM. Simple, but very useful when developing responsive websites.

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Realty: Free Wordpress Theme

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Realty is a powerful, responsive and feature-rich WordPress theme for real estate websites.

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Tooltipster: jQuery Tooltip Plugin

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Tooltipster is a lightweight (4,813 bytes minified) jQuery plugin that enables you to easily create clean, HTML5 validated tooltips.

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High DPI Images for Variable Pixel Densities

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Boris Smus explains the challenges of pixel density variation among devices and shows how application developers can use several techniques and best practices to tackle the problems.

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Free Font: Znikomit No. 25

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Grzegorz Luk shares this creative typeface for free. It is very artistic and beautifully ornamented.

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World's Cheapest Camera (PSD)

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Adrien Olczak shares this freebie of an IKEA camera that will be given away for free in the end of this year.

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Date Range Picker for Twitter Bootstrap

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If you are using Twitter Bootstrap, you'll find this date range picker by Dan Grossman very useful. It creates a drop down menu from which a user can select a range of dates.

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Drawing Game with Node.js

Martin Angelov shows you how to create a real-time online drawing game with node.js.

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Ideal Forms: Responsive HTML5 Forms

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Ideal Forms is a great framework for building and validating responsive HTML5 forms.

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13-inch Apple MacBook Air (PSD)

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A free, fully scalable Apple Macbook Air PSD from PremiumPixels by UI designer Koy Carraway.

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BigVideo.js: Background Videos for Websites

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This plugin by John Polacek allows it to it easily add a fit-to-fill background video to a websites. BigVideo.js is built on top of Video.js from zencoder.

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Happy Little Button Freebie (PSD)

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Chris Farina shares this cute and detailed little button with us.

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jsPlumb: Visually Connect Elements

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If you did not know it already, jsPlumb provides a means for a developer to visually connect elements on their web pages. It uses SVG or Canvas in modern browsers, and VML on IE 8 and below.

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SiteCake CMS

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SiteCake is a easy-to-use, simple CSS editor that allows you to edit your existing website on-the-fly.

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Timelines with Chronoline.js

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Chronoline.js is a library for making a chronology timeline out of events on a horizontal timescale. It only requires raphael.js to work.

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