This Friday our showcase consists of the freshest and useful tutorials and articles for web developers that we have collected here in order to save your precious time and make your workflow more fun and easy!
Getting Started with SVG Gradients
Using Encapsulation for Semantic Markup
Arrow Navigation Styles
Minimal Form Interface
A very simplistic form interface that shows only one text input at a time and reveals the next input with a subtle transition. The concept is based on the form at the bottom of the PageLanes website.
How to Create a Circular Progress Button
A tutorial on how to implement the circular progress button concept by Colin Garven. We are using the SVG line drawing animation technique as described by Jake Archibald to animate the circular progress and provide a success and error state to indicate the final status.
3D Grid Effect
A proof-of-concept effect recreation of the animation seen in a prototype app by Marcus Eckert. The idea is to flip a grid item in 3D, expand it to fullscreen and reveal some associated content. We’ve created two demos with a vertical and a horizontal rotation.
Tilted Content Slideshow
A tutorial on how to recreate the slideshow seen on the FWA landing page with 3D effects involving random animations.
Inspiration for Item Transitions
Some inspiration and ideas for item transitions considering different scenarios and use cases, including a small component, a full-width image header and a product image with a transparent background. State transitions are done using CSS Animations.
Simple Stack Effects
A set of simple stack effects for inspiration. The main idea is to have one item shown initially and then, on some trigger, more items are revealed as decoration. As seen in image grids or on scroll websites as creative effect.
Creating a Border Animation Effect with SVG and CSS
The website of Carl Philipe Brenner has some very creative and subtle animations and today we want to explore how to recreate a border animation effect using CSS transitions on SVG lines.
Morphing Buttons Concept
Some inspiration for a morphing button concept where the action element (button) morphs into a component. The examples show different types of components, i.e. fullscreen overlay, modal window, sidebar and more.
Page Loading Effects
A set of creative page loading effects that use SVG animations with Snap.svg. The idea is to show an overlay with a interesting shape animation while new content gets loaded.
Recreating the “Design Samsung” Grid Loading Effect
A tutorial on how to achieve the grid loading effect seen on the “Design Samsung” site. The effect will show a colored element sliding in first and then sliding out again, revealing the image.
Designing a Logo – From Inspiration to Execution
Designing a logo that stems from pure inspiration and yet manages to be both accurate and truly representative of your clients needs, is one of the most difficult tasks in the world of art and design.
How to Style and Animate SVG Elements with CSS
In this tutorial, I will show you step-by-step how to animate a SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) icon using CSS. This tutorial will give you valuable insight for using SVG as your preferred graphic format. Also, you can improve the UI and UX of your web applications by incorporating subtle animations into your SVG’s.
How to Handle Deferred Objects in DoCSSa
An object, in the CSS world, is basically a set of rules to apply, a repeating visual pattern. OOCSS for example defines a “media” object. It represents some rules applied to the image and text inside a block in order to create a specific look.
How to create Google Chrome extensions
Google Chrome is the most widely used browser, and for good reason: it’s fast, reliable, has a great set of developer tools and to top it all off, it has literally hundreds of extensions in the Google Store you can take advantage of.
Bootstrap 3 Tips and Tricks You Might Not Know
The purpose of this article is to share the things that I have learned and touch-base on some other things that I have seen people miss about the framework’s capabilities.
The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Node.js
Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS
25 pro tips to breathe new life into your CSS
Craig Grannell proves there’s still plenty of excitement left in CSS with this collection of top tips from industry experts.
Hands On The Sigmund Freud Typeface: Making A Font For Your Shrink
CSS: Should we change the default for overflow?
“Like”-able Content: Spread Your Message with Third-Party Metadata
Giving content proper structure is one of the most important things we can do—because the more structure we have in our content, the freer it becomes.
Next-Generation Responsive Web Design Tools: Webflow, Edge Reflow, Macaw
Streamlining Mobile Interactions
In this article, we’ll look at four core ways to streamline mobile interactions.
SVG `text` and Small, Scalable, Accessible Typographic Designs
Use zero-width spaces to stop annoying Twitter users
Responsive Images Done Right: A Guide To
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