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Explore the complete collection of CSS Weekly newsletter issues. Each issue contains carefully curated articles, tutorials, tools, and inspiration to help you master CSS and stay on top of the latest trends.
Issue #71
August 9, 2013
LiveStyle: Better, Stronger And Smarter CSS Live Reload * The “Other” Interface: Atomic Design With Sass * Language-wide Features in CSS * Speed up your CSS framework install with Yeoman * Creating a 3D Cube Image Gallery
- Introducing LiveStyle: Better, Stronger And Smarter CSS Live Reload
- The “Other” Interface: Atomic Design With Sass
- Take Your Programming Skills To The Next Level
- Language-wide Features in CSS
- Speed up your CSS framework install with Yeoman
- Creating a 3D Cube Image Gallery
- Introduction to Topcoat
- Six Ways of Centering With CSS
- Spacing The Bottom of Modules
- World Class Web Designer
- Senior Product Designer (m/f) in Berlin
- Shade - Ultimate Shadow Mixin
- SVGeneration
- Pure CSS3 Gran Turismo
Issue #70
August 2, 2013
Learn about mobile and responsive cross-browser testing, IE11 developer tools, new CSS units, progressive viewports and much, much more
- Techniques for mobile and responsive cross-browser testing: An Envato case study.
- Google Nexus Website Menu
- Take Your Programming Skills To The Next Level
- Structuring And Serving Styles For Older Browsers
- Debugging and Tuning Web Sites and Apps with F12 Developer Tools in IE11
- CSS Units You Should be Using Now!
- Progressive Viewports
- A Better Clearfix with Sass
- Create a CSS Cube
- Animated line drawing in SVG
- World Class Web Designer
- Senior Product Designer (m/f) in Berlin
- Android Fragmentation Visualized
Issue #69
July 26, 2013
Learn about border-radius, unit testing in CSS, the worst CSS practices, flexbox performance and more
- The humble border-radius
- 4 tools for automatic CSS testing
- Take Your Programming Skills To The Next Level
- Setting subheads with CSS
- What’s the Status of the ::selection Pseudo-element?
- The worst CSS practices
- Why Stylus fit better my needs
- Does Flexbox Have a Performance Problem?
- World Class Web Designer
- CSS Glue Cubic
- A live LESS/CSS editor for designing Video.js player skins
Issue #68
July 19, 2013
Look into the future of Sass, learn about Flexbox, learn how to accelerate your workflow with Emmet and much, much more
Issue #67
July 12, 2013
Learn how to use custom data attributes and pseudo-elements, which responsive image solution you should choose, how to solve the problem of @font-face inside Media Queries and more
- Using Custom Data Attributes and Pseudo-Elements
- CSS Balls
- Choosing A Responsive Image Solution
- Solving the Problem of @font-face Inside Media Queries
- The Extend Concept
- Writing DRYer vanilla CSS
- Create Striped Backgrounds With Gradients (and a Sass Function)
- World Class Web Designer
- Foundation for Beginners
Issue #66
July 5, 2013
Learn how antialiasing and CSS blend modes work, why you should name your Sass variables modularly, how to center percentage width/height elements and much, much more
- Antialiasing 101
- Loading Effects for Grid Items with CSS Animations
- Introducing Harpoon
- Sizing (Web) components by adding a Trojan horse into your CSS rules
- PhotoShop In The Browser: Understanding CSS Blend Modes
- Pure CSS from Yahoo! A Minimal & Lightweight Set of CSS Modules
- Name Your Sass Variables Modularly
- Adapting To A Responsive Design (Case Study)
- Centering Percentage Width/Height Elements
- World Class Web Designer
- PHP / Web Developer
- Cloudy Spiral CSS animation
Issue #65
June 28, 2013
Element queries, developing with Sass and Chrome DevTools, scaling and maintaining legacy CSS and much, much more
- Media Queries Are Not The Answer: Element Query Polyfill
- Developing With Sass and Chrome DevTools
- How to Scale and Maintain Legacy CSS with Sass and SMACSS
- Nifty Modal Window Effects
- CSS Typography cheat sheet
- Making Sass talk to JavaScript with JSON
- When to Use (or Not Use) Twitter Bootstrap
- World Class Web Designer
- PHP / Web Developer
- The Ultimate Responsive Web Design Beginners Resource List
- Buttons
- CSS Creatures
Issue #64
June 20, 2013
Learn about CSS 3D transforms, jank busting, responsifying complex websites, Bourbon, CSS stacking and more
- Understanding 3D Transforms
- Adventures in Jank Busting: Parallax, performance, and the new Flickr Home Page
- Yes, you really can make complex webapps responsive
- Creating a Responsive HTML Email Newsletter for Codecademy
- CSS stacking with display:table
- Apple Mac Pro page deconstructed
- Getting started with Bourbon
- World Class Web Designer
- Logos In Pure CSS
Issue #63
June 13, 2013
Learn how to create a jaw-dropping experience with SVG, how next generation of web layouts may look, how to utilize Sass to improve performance and more
- The Playground Vector Animation Process
- Next Generation Web Layout: National Geographic Forest Giant
- CSS Preprocessor Performance
- Build an HTML Email Template From Scratch
- Horizontal Portfolio Layout with CSS3 Animations and jQuery
- Seven
- Loading Images on Demand with Pure CSS
- World Class Web Designer
- HTML Inspector
- Pure
Issue #62
June 6, 2013
Learn how to use CSS creatively, why is out-of-the-box thinking so important even in CSS context and much, much more
Issue #61
May 29, 2013
A Modern Web Designer's Workflow, Pseudo-Elements Animations and Transitions, Sass Style Guide, CSS Beautifier and More
- A Modern Web Designer's Workflow
- Examples of Pseudo-Elements Animations and Transitions
- Cool Design Jobs
- Taking Ems Even Further
- 3D Button Parallax
- Apple Is Using Sass, And They’re Doing It Wrong
- Sass Style Guide
- Create a 3D CSS Animated Box with Sass
- Avoid nested selectors for more modular CSS
- Visualising CSS selector matches
- CSS Beautifier
Issue #60
May 22, 2013
Variable organization in Sass, designing CSS layouts with Flexbox, retinafying your websites, LESS tips and tricks and much, much more
- Thoughts For Better Variable Organization In SASS
- Designing CSS Layouts With Flexbox Is As Easy As Pie
- Using CSS3 Transitions to Animate the (Yahoo Weather App’s) Rising Sun
- The Right Way to Retinafy Your Websites
- LESS Tips and Tricks
- ‘Scope’ in CSS
- Using schema.org markup for organization logos
- Firefox Button Height Fix
- Sass Get Unicode Plugin
- Helium CSS
- CSS Only MacBook Air
Issue #59
May 15, 2013
Avoiding unnecessary paints, a collection of page transitions, em units, CSS :empty selector and more
Issue #58
May 8, 2013
Learn about the future of responsive digital layout, CSS counters, embedding canvas and SVG charts in emails, CSS transitions and more
- Adobe Explores the Future of Responsive Digital Layout with National Geographic Content
- Automatic Figure Numbering with CSS Counters
- Frontend Masters: New Responsive Web Design Course by Ben Callahan
- Embedding Canvas and SVG charts in emails
- CSS Transitions and old browser fallbacks
- Gallery CSS
- The CSS Zen Garden is 10 years old
- How to use the flexbox layout method
- Tunnel vision 3D CSS
Issue #57
May 2, 2013
Learn about quirks and issues of CSS transitions, the importance of CSS documentation, CSS background animations and more
- Thank God We Have A Specification!
- Simple YouTube Menu Effect
- Enigma64 - the fastest way to get images or Base64 string from Photoshop!
- Build a Responsive Pricing Table with Neat Hover States
- On CSS Documentation
- Icon fonts, HAML and Sass
- Blink and the end of vendor prefixes
- CSS Background Animations
- Simple CSS 3D Carousel Gallery
- 3D elevating cubes
Issue #56
April 25, 2013
Animating flexboxes, the best way to learn CSS, magic numbers in CSS, shame.css and more
Issue #55
April 17, 2013
Learn how to use flexbox, how CSS properties affect your page paint times, how to benefit from CSS generated content and more
- Advanced cross-browser flexbox
- CSS Paint Times and Page Render Weight
- List of Pseudo-Elements to Style Form Controls
- How To Benefit From CSS Generated Content And Counters
- How to turn your icons into a web font
- Responsive drop shadows
- If it Moves When You Click, Make Something Stick
- CSS selectors
- Explore and Master Chrome DevTools
- FlipCSS library
- Holmes: CSS Markup Detective
Issue #54
April 10, 2013
CSS masking, inspirational approaches to CSS, @supports rule, boost your Sass & Compass efficiency and more
- CSS Masking
- 15 inspirational approaches to CSS
- CSS @supports
- Boost Sass & Compass efficiency
- Blink
- All the Glory of CSS Transitions
- Why a CSS alternative to <select> is impossible
- SASS Triangle Mixin
- Front End Developer at Booking.com
- Front-end Developer at alaTest.com
- The Black Brick Road of OZ
- CSSCSS
- Typeplate
Issue #53
April 3, 2013
The shape-outside CSS property, 3D-ifying documents using CSS transforms, icon stacks, how to structure a Sass project and more
- Freeing the Floats of the Future From the Tyranny of the Rectangle
- 3D-ifying Documents Using CSS Transforms
- Icon Stacks
- Items on circle with CSS
- CSS Box-Sizing for Noobies
- How to structure a Sass project
- How To Style A Checkbox With CSS
- How to make Chrome understand the SASS/SCSS in your rails app
- Front End Developer
- CSS Code Snippets
- CSSDB: A Database Of CSS Libraries
Issue #52
March 27, 2013
Learn how to efficiently handle large front-ends, how to use CSS Shaders, what Emmet is and how it will speed up your development and much, much more
- CSS: Everything is global and how to deal with it
- Introduction to Custom Filters (aka CSS Shaders)
- Goodbye, Zen Coding. Hello, Emmet!
- Make a 3D Phone with CSS
- About HTML semantics and front-end architecture
- CSS3 transitions and z-index
- There’s more to the CSS rem unit than font sizing
- Printing The Web
- Front End Developer
Issue #51
March 20, 2013
Organize your CSS, learn to work with new flexbox syntax, learn how to effectively work in a team and more
- Your CSS is a Mess
- Working with flexbox: The new specification
- iOS 6 switch style checkboxes with pure CSS
- Making Front-end Development a Team Sport
- An Interview with Eric Meyer
- The Good & Bad of Level 4 Media Queries
- Vertical text with CSS 3 Writing Modes
- The Lengths of CSS
- Front End Developer
- How to lose weight (in the browser)
Issue #50
March 14, 2013
CSS3 animations, hyphenation with CSS4, performance optimization, modular CSS, print style sheets and more
Issue #49
March 6, 2013
Virtual graphics with CSS3, form elements, WebKit, translate3d SVG and more
Issue #48
February 28, 2013
CSS secrets, profiling paint times, dynamic selectors, LESS color functions and more
- More CSS Secrets: Another 10 things you may not know about CSS
- Profiling Long Paint Times with DevTools’ Continuous Painting Mode
- CSS3 Lifelike: A Slightly Different Box Model with {box-sizing:border-box}
- CSS3 Layout
- Dynamic Selectors
- Understanding LESS Color Functions
- The Performance Of CSS Opacity
- Build responsive emails
- Browserhacks
- CSS triangle generator
- Fade loading
Issue #47
February 21, 2013
Twitter Bootstrap, floats, text decorations, flexbox, animated effects and more
Issue #46
February 13, 2013
Re-engineering CSS, rem units, CSS regions polyfill, descendant selectors and more
- DevTools: Visually Re-engineering CSS For Faster Paint Times
- In Defense Of Rem Units
- CSS Regions Polyfill
- When to Avoid the Descendant Selector
- Responsive grid systems; a solution?
- How to Create Windows-8-like 3D animations with CSS3 and jQuery
- Introduction to Animation in HTML
- When to use Sass mixins, extends and variables
- Roole
Issue #45
February 6, 2013
Performance, interactive infographic with SVG, CSS gradients, auto positioning in CSS and more
- High Performance Networking in Google Chrome
- Interactive Infographic with SVG and CSS Animations
- Dig deep into CSS gradients
- Animating the New Parse About Page
- How Does Auto Positioning Work In CSS?
- Using CSS3 Pseudo Elements and Box Shadows Instead of Images for HiDPI Geometric Shapes
- Using background clip for text with CSS fallback
- Ouroboros Sass/CSS Spinner
- Reuze.me
- A Beginner’s Guide to HTML & CSS
Issue #44
February 1, 2013
Creating CSS 3d worlds, BEM syntax, the future of CSS3 and more
- Creating 3D worlds with HTML and CSS
- MindBEMding – getting your head ’round BEM syntax
- The Future of CSS3: Looking at Future Techniques Today
- Coding Q&A: CSS Performance, Debugging, Naming Conventions
- Offsetting an HTML element in a flexible container
- Media Query width and vertical scrollbars
- Outlook.com drops margin and float support entirely
- Pragmatic Guide to Sass
Issue #43
January 24, 2013
Front-end performance, CSS clip property, CSS selectors of the future, CSS layouts and more
Issue #42
January 16, 2013
Animation-fill-mode, transparent colors and images in CSS, detect when CSS3 animations and transitions end and more
- Using animation-fill-mode In You CSS Animations
- How To Work With Transparent Colors And Images In CSS
- Using jQuery to Detect When CSS3 Animations and Transitions End
- Hover Effect on Images From Different Directions Using Pure CSS
- How to automatically generate CSS sprites with Sass and Compass
- Style Injection is for Winners
- Using Images as Fullscreen Faux-Gradient Backgrounds
- One div
Issue #41
January 9, 2013
CSS Transitions, using CSS3 to replace JavaScript, diagonal thumbnails gallery and more
- All you need to know about CSS Transitions
- Using Form Elements and CSS3 to Replace JavaScript
- Clean out your Sass junk-drawer
- Think Twice Before Using matchMedia to Conditionally Load Stylesheets
- Diagonal Thumbnails Gallery
- Preparing For A Front-End Job Interview
- Media Queries: The Next Generation
- Flowtime.js
- Illustrated Guide to Front-End Development
Issue #40
January 1, 2013
Progressive jpegs, CSS masks, markup-free icon fonts using unicode-range and more
- Progressive jpegs: a new best practice
- CSS Masks – How To Use Masking In CSS Now
- Talks To Help You Become A Better Front-End Engineer In 2013
- Markup-free icon fonts using unicode-range
- My Workflow: Never having to leave DevTools
- How To Deal With Vendor Prefixes
- Using meta viewport to optimize rendering on mobile devices
- Sass and Media Queries
Issue #39
December 27, 2012
Moving elements with translate(), CSS click events, CSS hyphenation and more
Issue #38
December 19, 2012
Dive into Flexbox, WebKit image wipes, animations with only one keyframe, flashless animation and more
- Dive into Flexbox
- WebKit Image Wipes
- CSS Animations with only one keyframe
- Flashless Animation
- Public service announcement: time to update your CSS3
- Building grid systems with inuit.css
- CSS diagonal borders still not rendering properly on Firefox
- Pointer Media Query
- The Nerdery is looking for talented Front-End developers!
- Git Immersion
Issue #37
December 12, 2012
CSS performance, intelligent cropping of responsive images, CSS next, print headers and more
- GitHub's CSS Performance
- Focal Point: Intelligent Cropping of Responsive Images
- JSCamp: CSS Next
- Sprite sheet animation with steps()
- Those Damn Print Headers
- Giving CSS Animations and Transitions Their Place
- How to use the CSS3 transition property
- The Nerdery is looking for talented Front-End developers!
- Responsive Email Templates
Issue #36
December 4, 2012
CSS architecture, responsive background images, using inline SVGs with HTML5 and more
- CSS Architecture
- Responsive background images with fixed or fluid aspect ratios
- Using Inline SVGs With HTML5
- Colors in CSS
- CSS Exceptions: Object Modifiers or Extensions?
- CSS3 Repeating Gradients
- Hyphenation works!
- The ultimate “target retina screens” media query
- The Nerdery is looking for talented Front-End developers!
- CSS3 AT-AT
Issue #35
November 28, 2012
Code smells in CSS, principles for improving your CSS, inuit.css, native CSS feature detection and more
- Code smells in CSS
- Learning Principles for Improving Your CSS
- Rubbing Noses With inuit.css
- Should You Use Inline-Blocks As A Substitute For Floats?
- Native CSS feature detection via the @supports rule
- In Defense of Descendant Selectors and ID Elements
- Adapting your WebKit-optimized site for Internet Explorer 10
- Why it's crucial to test your frontend code
- The Nerdery is looking for talented Front-End developers!
- Digital Creativity Guidebook
Issue #34
November 20, 2012
CSS positioning, CSS cursor rule, styling scrollbars, detecting DOM changes in CSS and more
- CSS Positioning: A Comprehensive Look
- Everything You Need to Know About the CSS Cursor Rule
- Styling Scrollbars to Match Your UI Design
- Accessible custom checkboxes and radio buttons
- Create Quality Print Versions of Web Pages With CSS3 Filters
- Why Ems?
- The Nerdery is looking for talented Front-End developers!
- Can I use...
Issue #33
November 14, 2012
Mobile-first responsive web design, the Facebook loading animation in CSS, things that don’t occupy space and more
- Creating a Mobile-First Responsive Web Design
- The Facebook Loading Animation in CSS
- CSS Things That Don’t Occupy Space
- How to recreate the new eBay site scrolling effect
- display: none;
- SMACSS and SASS - The future of stylesheets
- Moving IE specific CSS into @media blocks
- The Nerdery is looking for talented Front-End developers!
- Stylie
Issue #32
November 7, 2012
Shadow DOM, build a responsive WordPress theme with Bootstrap, iPad mini detection for HTML5 and more
- Inspector Web and the Mystery of the Shadow DOM
- How to Build a Responsive WordPress Theme with Bootstrap
- The Nerdery
- Mission: Impossible – iPad mini detection for HTML5
- How to set inner shadow on text in CSS (in webkit…)
- Methods for Modifying Objects in OOCSS (Extends: A Fool’s Gold)
- CSS3 Flexbox Explorer
- Emmet
- The Nerdery is looking for talented Front-End developers!
- The Graphical Web Experiment
Issue #31
October 30, 2012
CSS3 box shadows, reusable HTML components, CSS of tomorrow, comparing responsive CSS frameworks and more
- The Real Beauty of CSS3 Box Shadows
- The Road To Reusable HTML Components
- The Nerdery
- The CSS of Tomorrow
- Comparing Responsive CSS Frameworks - Bootstrap, Foundation, and Skeleton
- Using Unprefixed CSS3 Gradients in Modern Browsers
- LESS CSS – Beginner’s Guide
- Introducing CSS FilterLab
- The Nerdery is looking for talented Front-End developers!
- CSS 3D Dropdown Concept
Issue #30
October 24, 2012
Vector graphics on your responsive site, using @font-face rule with popular font services, full-page animations using CSS and more
- Splash Vector Graphics on your Responsive Site
- Fonts, fabulous fonts: How to use the @font-face rule with popular font services
- How to Create Full-page Animations Using CSS
- IE10 Snap Mode and Responsive Design
- Using Sass source maps in WebKit Inspector
- How To Vertically Center Unknown Rows Of Content Inside A Fixed Container
- Clearing Floats: Why is it Necessary Even in “Modern” Browsers?
- Getting Good with Javascript
Issue #29
October 16, 2012
Favicons on Retina screens, CSS3 checkboxes, CSS3 radio buttons, CSS3 regions and more
- Don’t Forget About Favicons on Retina Screens
- Easy CSS3 Checkboxes and Radio Buttons
- box-shadow Property vs. drop-shadow Filter: A Complete Comparison
- CSS3 Regions and Flow
- Weird behaviour with optgroups in iOS6 Safari
- Data attributes rock as both CSS and JavaScript know them
- Compass Compiling and WordPress Themes
- Simple yet amazing CSS3 border transition effects
Issue #28
October 9, 2012
Data URIs, the code side of color, Microformats, new CSS layout properties and more
- The What, Why and How of Data URIs in Web Design
- The Code Side Of Color
- Introduction to Microformats For Web Pages
- Using inline-block to Display a Product Grid View
- Master the new CSS layout properties
- Stop Using the Viewport Meta Tag (until You Know How to Use It)
- Building a CSS framework with Sass
- Chrome Dev Tools: Markup and Style
Issue #27
October 2, 2012
CSS custom filters, CSS3 vs jQuery animations, CSS style guide, CSS shaders and more
Issue #26
September 25, 2012
Big CSS, SMACSS, CSS3 conditional statements, button switches with checkboxes and more
Issue #25
September 18, 2012
Ways to embed a clickable SVG-logo into your website, CSS preprocessors, setting up CodeKit for Sass and more
Issue #24
September 12, 2012
CSS sprite sheets, CSS3 transitions, Sass 3.2, breaking the line break and more
Issue #23
September 5, 2012
Chrome Developer Tools, high DPI images for variable pixel densities, HSL color in CSS3 and more
- Faster HTML/CSS Workflow with Chrome Developer Tools
- High DPI Images for Variable Pixel Densities
- Don’t Worry. We All Feel Overwhelmed
- An Easy Guide To HSL Color In CSS3
- Master CSS pixels for Retina displays
- Responsive HTML5 video
- Stick your landings! position: sticky lands in WebKit
- Force Accurate Colors When Printing Web Pages
- Styling your apps with Twitter Bootstrap
- Create The Web
Issue #22
August 21, 2012
The boring bits of CSS, a Retina web, rich web typography and more
Issue #21
August 14, 2012
CSS 3D transforms, better grids for a responsive world, CSS shaders and more