Stephen Hay on Designing in the Browser
Stephen Hay walks you through a browser-based design from the ground up, demonstrating the thinking, tips, and tools you can use as you follow this process to a finished product.
Issue #155
A Few Different Ways To Use SVG Sprites In Animation
Sarah Drasner covers a few ways of using SVG sprites to describe motion on the web.
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Articles & Tutorials
Animation Principles for the Web
Donovan Hutchinson goes through each of the 12 Principles of Animation, and discusses how they might apply when making web pages. One more article on the 12 principles was released last week, The illusion of life, so make sure you check it out as well.
Left Half and Right Half Layout – Many Different Ways
Geoff Graham shows a number of ways you can split a layout in half (using background gradient or absolute positioning or tables or floats or inline-block or flexbox or grid layout).
Precise Control over Responsive Typography
Mike Riethmuller explains that it’s possible to have precise control over responsive typography.
Don’t Forget About Contrast
Susan Robertson reminds you how important it is to test your designs on older screens and ensure the things you build work well for everyone.
Forcing Description Text In a Newsletter
Osvaldas Valutis explains how you can provide a newsletter excerpt under the email subject without showing it in the newsletter itself.
Inspiration
In Pieces - 30 Endangered Species, 30 Pieces
In Pieces is an interactive exhibition of 30 of the world’s most interesting but unfortunately endangered species created with just good old CSS.