Collective #655
Inspirational Website of the Week: BLUE HAMHAM
The website of the four music-eating Space Hamster brothers is an absolute winner in every aspect: joyful animations and superb interactions.
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Instant websites for your clients with Divi Layout Packs
With the Divi Layout Packs you'll get world-class designs ready to be used for your client projects.
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Building a Magical 3D button with HTML and CSS
Learn how to build an animated 3D button with HTML and CSS that sparks joy.
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SVG Generators
A complete guide to SVG generators — for everything from SVG shapes and cropping tools to SVG filters, color matrix mixers and SVG to JSX generators.
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Font size is useless; let’s fix it
A great article on the concept of font size, why it's a problem and how to fix it.
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Developing For Imperfect: Future Proofing CSS Styles
Learn how we can plan future-proof styles in a world with an infinite degree of device and user ability variance.
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Container Queries are actually coming
Read how we're finally getting container queries and how they will transform UI design, just like media queries did.
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Soccer ball icon speedrun
A great explanatory walk-through explaining one of Marc Edwards' amazing speedruns.
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Dark mode in 5 minutes, with inverted lightness variables
Lea Verou shows how to use inverted lightness variables in CSS to create a super-slick Dark Mode option.
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Nailing That Cool Dissolve Transition
Yehonatan Daniv explains how to code a simple, yet stunning dissolve transition for images.
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Best practices for cookie notices
Learn how to optimize cookie notices for performance and usability in this article by Katie Hempenius.
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esoteric.codes
A great site that collects languages, platforms, and systems that break from the norms of computing.
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Overlay Fact Sheet
An important open letter about accessibility overlays which concludes that "No overlay product on the market can cause a website to become fully compliant with any existing accessibility standard and therefore cannot eliminate legal risk".
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Skribbl
Free, hand-drawn illustrations brought to you by a growing community of aspiring creatives.
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Not Your Typical Horizontal Rules
Sara Soueidan shows a technique for a horizontal rule that is styleable & customizable using CSS, and accessible.
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Quick Tip: Style Pseudo-elements with Javascript Using Custom Properties
A very useful trick by Michelle Barker on how to set styles to a pseudo-element with JavaScript.
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Quick CSS typography tip
A really great tip by Mark Boulton on naming opentype features in CSS.
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Who has the fastest F1 website in 2021?
The last part in a series looking at the loading performance of F1 websites.
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How to trigger a CSS animation on scroll
A step-by-step tutorial for how to create a CSS animation and trigger it on scroll using the Intersection Observer API. By Nick Ciliak.
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Under-Engineered Select Menus
Adrian Roselli show how to use CSS to style the <select> element.
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Inspirational Websites Roundup #24
A fresh collection of hand-picked websites with interesting and outstanding designs to get you updated on the current trends.
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UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #15
A fresh set of hand-picked animation shots that show the current trends in motion and interaction design.
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