Web Design & Development News: Collective #742

Inspirational Website of the Week: Barlow Agency

A minimal design with an interesting panning effect. Our pick this week.

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Use Kintone to Spend Less Time on the Back-end

Kintone is a powerful web database, providing developers with a convenient environment to test out front-end coding ideas, without having to run a back-end.

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Readability

A new series of articles by the Google Fonts team where you'll learn about the qualities of type and typography that make reading easier.

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Designing a Utopian layout grid

This post aims to contextualise the Utopia fluid grid calculator which helps you to define a layout grid by clicking a few buttons. By James Gilyead.

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Nextra 2.0

The new version of the Next.js static site generator brings some great features.

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Readymag Websites of the Year 2022

Cast your vote for websites that inspire you and help them win.

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WebGL Rain

Ash Thornton shares Unseen Studio's first experiment, refracting WebGL rain drops!

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A Practical Guide to CSS Media Queries

Take a closer look at what media queries are, how they work, and how to use them correctly, including for creating responsive designs. By Alex Ivanovs.

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Digging Deeper Into Container Style Queries

Geoff Graham takes another look on container style queries and what's currently being discussed.

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From type to logotype

Tom Muller's article on the process of creating a logotype.

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Award Winning Animation With Only 20 Lines Of CSS?

Learn how to recreate the sliding image track effect from camillemormal.com in this video tutorial by Hyperplexed.

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Complementary Space

Donnie D'Amato presents a framework to design spacing tokens semantically.

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Spherical Harmonics

Steve Trettel made this awesome demo for a lecture.

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How to transfigure wireframes into HTML

The first article in HTMHell's Advent calendar is about transforming a design into code.

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Basement Foundry

The type foundry by basement.studio where they offer their amazing, ever-evolving typefaces. And what a great site!

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CSS For URLs and HTTP Headers

Jim Nielsen wonders what if we could write CSS based on any value in the current page's URL.

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Notion introduces expanded Free Plan & new Business Plan

Good news from Notion: they made some updates to their pricing plans that now include an expanded free plan.

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Iris 2

A fun Christmas marbling experiment with WebGL by Maeda Mameo. Check out all the other experiments, too!

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A Performance Maturity Matrix

The year's Web Performance Calendar starts with an article by Brian Louis Ramirez on a systematic approach to improving performance using a "performance maturity matrix".

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