Bi-Weekly Frontend News

Collective #82

Inspirational Website of the Week

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The website of graphic and web designer Pauline Osmont has very interesting hover effects and creative transitions. Our pick this week.

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Image Compression for Web Developers

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Colt McAnlis dives into the topic of image compression for web developers, how important it is to optimize images and how to choose the right format.

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TogetherJS

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TogetherJS is a Javascript library by Mozilla that adds collaboration features and tools to your website allowing for real time interaction.

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Addressing The Responsive Images Performance Problem: A Case Study

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In this article Anders Andersen and Tobias Järlund explain the "padding-bottom" responsive image technique which they have implemented on the mobile version of a Swedish news site.

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What do you stand to make?

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"What do you stand to make" is a great interactive tool by Hamish Macpherson for calculating ones earning potential. Great UI with a natural language based form.

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Focus transition

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Nikita Vasilyev shares this neat transition idea when focusing on links and input elements.

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7 Habits of Highly Effective Media Queries

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Some great advice on how to maximize the efficiency of media queries with some very useful references by Brad Frost.

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Corporate Identity Mockup (PSD)

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A beautiful and complete corporate identity mockup by Simon von Allmen.

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A Complete Guide to the Table Element

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A very thorough and complete guide to the table element by Chris Coyier.

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FireShell

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With Fireshell by Todd Motto you can get started with you project quickly using HTML5 boilerplate, Sass OOCSS setup and Grunt.js.

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jQuery Mapael

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jQuery Mapael by Vincent Brouté is a jQuery plugin based on raphael.js that allows you to display dynamic vector maps.

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A visual guide to Sass & Compass Color Functions

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Learn visually about the Sass & Compass color functions from this guide by Jackie Balzer.

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Sloppy UI

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A blog that collects glitches in UIs of iOS apps. Great resource for seeing what can go wrong and avoid mistakes.

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Responsive elements

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Responsive elements by Kumail Hunaid is a great little JavaScript library that allows elements to adapt and respond to the area they occupy.

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The design process of my ‘Collections’ WordPress theme for The Theme Foundry

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A very detailed and extensive article on the design process of the Collections theme by Veerle Pieters.

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Frontify

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With Frontify you can interactively specify designs and generate living front-end style guides.

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Vex Dialogs

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Another great library by HubSpot: A modern and tiny dialog library for easily styleable dialogs with lots of options and a simple API. Made by HubSpot.

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Free Font: ROUNDA

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Ina Dimitrova designed this creative typeface inspired by the circle shape.

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Free Font: WIKINGG

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Wikingg is the first type project by Slava Krivonosov. A unqiue uppercase font.

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