Collective #697
Inspirational Website of the Week: Silvia Sguotti
Bold, fresh and sexy: Silvia Sguotti’s website shines with a unique design. Our pick this week.
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Creating a Schema-Based Form System
Tania Rascia shows how to make a form system where we can simply define the schema of a form and pass it into a component that takes care of all the common form needs.
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Use Cases For CSS fit-content
Ahmad Shadeed explores some practical use cases for fit-content.
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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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The baseline for web development in 2022
Alan Dávalos’ in-depth analysis about the big changes in the web between 2021 and 2022 and how those affect the way we should face web development as a whole.
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Welcoming the new Search Console URL Inspection API
Read all about the new Google Search Console URL Inspection API, which gives programmatic access to URL-level data for properties you manage in Search Console.
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How to Cycle Through Classes on an HTML Element
Chris Coyier describes 8 ways to cycle through classes on an element.
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Preventing smooth scrolling with JavaScript
Kilian Valkhof shows how to turn smooth scrolling off for a specific scroll even if it’s turned on in the CSS.
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Inclusive Design
Read about inclusive design which describes methodologies to create products that understand and enable people of all backgrounds and abilities.
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Letmescroll.js
An easy.to-use scroll library with standardized events, shortcuts and API.
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What is Generative Art?
Amy Goodchild’s interesting artice on what generative art can be.
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More to give than just the div: semantics and how to get them right
A write-up of a great talk that Hidde de Vries did in November at Web Directions and Beyond Tellerrand.
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California Design System
The California Design System makes it easy for state digital teams to build accessible, consistent, and performant services and products. Interesting to learn from.
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Making the web better. With blocks!
Joel Spolsky shares an interesting idea: making blocks interchangeable and reusable across the web.
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A Primer on Bézier Curves
A detailed explanation of Bézier curves, and how to do the many things that we commonly want to do with them.
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dddraw
A free and simple online drawing tool that makes it easy to freehand draw SVGs.
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The Nifty Portal
A cool geeky website design with some glitchiness.
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Vertex
Handcrafted 3D icons that can be fully customized online.
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Europe’s Move Against Google Analytics Is Just the Beginning
Austria’s data regulator has found that the use of Google Analytics is a breach of GDPR. In the absence of a new EU-US data deal, other countries may follow.
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SkyBot
Super cool project: Luke Berndt made a system that shoots photos of all the airplanes that fly over his house.
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UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #21
A new collection of the most interesting and creative motion designs and animations from the last couple of weeks.
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