Collective #648
Inspirational Website of the Week: Universal Favourite
This studio’s website has a slick and sexy design with many lovely details.
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Beautifully designed workspaces for data import
Collaborative workspaces built for customer data onboarding. Import, format & merge messy spreadsheets with Flatfile Concierge. Best of all? No code required.
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CSS transitions and hover animations, an interactive guide
A comprehensive guide about CSS transitions which takes a look at the fundamental building blocks we need to create microinteractions and other animations.
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Fluid typography with CSS clamp
Learn to create a simple, accessibility friendly and configurable fluid type system that uses modern CSS sizing functions.
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Why I Still Use RSS
Read why the Internet, and what it stood for, peaked with RSS, and why you should use it.
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About Us Pop-Out Effect
A great effect using clip-path: path() by Mikael Ainalem.
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Graxel
A pocket doodling editor in pixel art made by Max Wellito.
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Prefers-contrast: forced is a mistake
Kilian Valkhof explains why he feels that prefers-contrast: forced is a mistake in the making.
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Sharing data between CSS and JavaScript using custom properties
Christian Heilmann shows how to manipulate CSS custom properties with JavaScript.
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Developing a performant custom cursor
A great article by Stefan Vitasovic on how to implement a custom cursor the right way.
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Tiny Blocks
Tiny Blocks is a curated collection of inspiring user interfaces from the web.
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Finding an Element’s Nearest Relative Positioned Ancestor
Michelle Barker shows how to find the nearest positioned parent in JavaScript, right in the browser console.
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Interactive particles text create with three.js
A very nice particle effect on a text made by Ricardo Sanprieto.
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BitmapFonts
A gigantic collection of bitmap fonts pulled from various demoscene archives over the years.
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Same Energy
Jacob Jackson has been working on a visual search engine called Same Energy for the past couple of months. Give it a try, it’s amazing!
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Clipping Scrollable Areas On The inline-start Side
A note regarding how the browser deals with clipping scrollable areas on the block-start and inline-start sides.
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Obstacles
A supercool Three.js and Cannon.js demo by Ion Drimba Filho.
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VOLE.wtf
The home of Can You Draw a Perfect Circle?, Hit the High Notes, Kick the Ball Back, Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?, ButtyStock, Goth or Moth? and oodles more. Formerly known as ‘malevole’.
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Uniwidth typefaces for interface design
A short, handy compilation of uniwidth typefaces by Lisa Staudinger.
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Underwater
A beautiful water effect made by Ko Yelie. Another great demo is Shooting Star.
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Haven: Host your own private blog
With Haven (formerly SimpleBlog), you choose who gets to see your website instead of trusting a big company to control who gets access on your behalf.
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Form.taxi
Submit your web forms with form.taxi — no programming, PHP scripting, or FormMailer required. Free for small websites.
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My 90’s TV
Go back to the 1990’s via this nostalgic TV simulator and relive the original ads, music videos, movie trailers, shows and more!
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Loudreader
The Web’s only usable ebook reader inside a browser.
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UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #14
Some selected animation shots that explore experimental and modern ideas for interactions on the web.
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Simple CSS Line Hover Animations for Links
A couple of simple & subtle CSS-based line hover animations for links.
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