Collective #548
Inspirational Website of the Week: Design Embraced
Anthony Goodwin's portfolio has a beautiful flowy design with lovely details. Our pick this week.
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The Ultimate WordPress Page Builder
You've never built a WordPress website like this before. Divi is more than just a WordPress theme, it's a completely new website building platform that replaces the standard WordPress post editor with a vastly superior visual editor.
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Simplicity (II)
Bastian Allgeier on the lessons learned while working on very old projects and how the post-build-process era brought dependency hell.
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Animate it
A tool to create high-quality GIFs and video animations in your browser.
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Metronomes in JavaScript
Monica Dinculescu's exploration of metronomes and how to keep time in JavaScript.
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Two Browsers Walked Into a Scrollbar
Zach Leatherman studies scrollbar obtrusiveness and the design control we have with CSS.
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Logical Operations with CSS Variables
Ana Tudor explores the interesting possibilities of logical operations using CSS custom properties.
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Can I email
A very useful site that offers support info on more than 50 HTML and CSS features tested across 25 email clients.
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VeoLuz
A generative art tool that lets you play with light in a way you never have before. By Jared Forsyth.
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CSS-Camera
Add depth using a 3D camera view to your web page with CSS3 3D transforms. By Mingyu Kim.
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Active Theory v5
The amazing new website by Active Theory.
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Scheduling Netlify deploys with GitHub Actions
Thadee Trompetter shows how to use cron jobs on GitHub Actions and Netlify build hooks to perform nightly updates of a static site.
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Speeding up the web with the Save-Data header
Matt Hobbs experiments with the Save-Data header and shares what he learned.
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Cables
In case you didn't know about it: Cables is a tool for creating beautiful interactive content. With an easy to navigate interface and real time visuals, it allows for rapid prototyping and fast adjustments. Currently in public beta.
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Reverse interview
A list of questions to ask the company during your interview.
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Learn Regex in 4 tweets
A crash course on regex by Somdev Sangwan in just four tweets.
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Caniuse and MDN compatibility data collaboration
Read about how two great data sources on web compatibility come together.
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Procedural Mountains
A fantastic demo by Kyle Wetton.
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fullstack.ai
End-to-end machine learning project showing key aspects of developing and deploying real life ML driven application.
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Dissolve
A wonderful demo of a dissolving effect shader by Colin Peyrat.
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Daytripper: Hide-My-Windows Laser Tripwire
Daytripper is a laser tripwire that can, upon triggering, hide all your windows, lock your computer, or execute a custom script to do whatever you want :)
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How to Create a Webcam Audio Visualizer with Three.js
A tutorial on how to create a Three.js powered audio visualizer that takes input from the user's webcam.
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Inspirational Websites Roundup #8
Another set of inspirational website designs from the previous month to bring you up to date on the current design trends.
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