Flexbox Adventures
Chris Wright
Chris Wright looks at how Flexbox actually calculates its space, and how can you use it now, and in the future.
Issue #142
Style Guide Best Practices
Brad Frost
Brad Frost explains why are style guides and pattern libraries essential tools to help web teams maintain sanity while creating experiences for our multi-device web.
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Sass for Web Designers
A reluctant convert to Sass, Dan Cederholm shares how he came around to the popular CSS pre-processor, and provides a clear-cut path to taking better control of your code.
Articles & Tutorials
3 Tricks for Adding Texture to Your Text with CSS and SVG
Samuel NortonSamuel Norton shows how to add some texture, or an image background to your text with CSS and SVG.
State of the Animation 2014
Rachel NaborsIn this talk Rachel Nabors introduces a new Web Animation API via the development styles and insights of four distinct groups of people: UI designers, interaction developers, library authors, and the browser teams implementing it.
SMACSS-Press
Scott FennellScott Fennell shows how to enforce a more SMACSS style philosophy in WordPress.
Why You Should Avoid Sass @extend
Kitty GiraudelKitty Giraudel gives reasons why you should avoid the @extend directive in Sass for better comprehension of the code you write.
An Overview of SVG Sprite Creation Techniques
Sara SoueidanSara Soueidan shows three ways to create icon sprites using SVG: with HTML, CSS and, perhaps most powerfully, fragment identifiers.
Inspiration
Christmas Card (Google Chrome Experiment)
Petr Tichy
A beautiful Christmas SVG animation by Petr Tichy. (Yet another proof that with a little bit of creativity and knowledge you can accomplish a lot.)