Collective #571
Inspirational Website of the Week: Esperanto
A fantastic interactive design that celebrates an exciting journey. Our pick this week.
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CSS: An Art, a Science, a Nightmare (Everything You Should Know)
In this excellent guide, Tania Rascia covers the practical parts of CSS that are important on a daily basis.
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Work with the Powerful Divi Theme Builder
Learn how you can enjoy complete control over your entire website with the new and powerful Divi Theme Builder.
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CSS Layout
A fantastic collection of popular layouts and patterns made with CSS. Made by Phuoc Nguyen.
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Advent of Code 2019
Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.
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Use CSS Subgrid to layout full-width content stripes in an article template
Learn how to augment a Grid-infused article layout that allows for certain sections of content to break out into full-width areas.
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An Introduction to Variable Fonts
An excellent guide to variable fonts by Jason Pamental.
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Music and Web Design
Brad Frost's interesting thoughts on the parallels between Music and Web Design.
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Web Components and the Accessibility Object model (AOM)
Léonie Watson writes about the AOM, an experimental JavaScript API that proposes several new features intended to solve existing accessibility use cases.
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DrumBot
Play real-time music with a machine learning drummer that drums based on your melody. Read more about it in this article.
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Binary Music Player
A musical player, with a binary twist. Built by Tim Holman using Tone.JS.
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Smashing Podcast Episode 4 With Heydon Pickering: What Are Inclusive Components?
Drew McLellan talks to Smashing author Heydon Pickering about Inclusive Components.
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The State of UX in 2020
An insightful list of what to expect for User Experience (UX) Design in the next year.
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Make a smooth shadow, friend
A smooth shadow generator inspired by Tobias Ahlin's article. By Philipp Brumm.
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Re-creating the ‘His Dark Materials’ Logo in CSS
Michelle Barker re-creates an interesting typographic logo with CSS.
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Firefox 71: A year-end arrival
A plethora of new developer tools features including the web socket message inspector, console multi-line editor mode and more are coming in the new Firefox version.
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Holiday CSSweater Generator
A great CSS pattern generator with a geeky Christmas theme. By Adam Kuhn.
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Interactive Hippo Button
A fun button that looks like a hungry Hippo. By Mariusz Dabrowski. Check out the written and video tutorial.
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Awesome Demos Roundup #11
A hand-picked collection of fantastic web experiments from the past weeks.
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Piano keyboard
An awesome Codevember demo by Ricardo Oliva Alonso.
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Motion Paths - Past, Present and Future | Codrops
An article by Cassie Evans that explores a few ways of moving an element along a path, including the upcoming CSS motion path module and the newly released GSAP3.
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