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Cool Things of the Week (Web Design Edition #5)

Fun fact in history this week: On the 6th of September, 1930 Andre Beullens, a Flemish painter, was born in Brussels, Belgium. Photo credit to the Tom Gerits gallery.

Here are the news and updates for this week, 2018:

  • GitHub has completely dropped jQuery from its front-end. You can read the story of how this happened here.

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jQuery usage inside GitHub. Photo from the article.
  • If are using a carousel on your mobile site or in your mobile app, make sure that it doesn’t have an excessive number of elements and that it supports swipe. Read more tips in this article.

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  • Google wants websites to adopt Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) as the default approach to building webpages. Lot of conflicting opinions on this subject.
  • If you want to see a timeline with how web design has evolved over the years, Web Design Museum offers numerous sorted website trends between 1995 and 2005.

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  • Animista is an online tool for generating CSS animations. It has an easy-to-use interface and might come in handy for your future web projects.

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  • This CodePen features a beautifully designed credit card form. It has masked inputs and dynamic card animations that create a smooth user interaction.

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The resources featured in this blog post are the result of us browsing certain parts of the internet. You can get connected and updated by subscribing to these sub-reddits:

And by checking out CSS Tricks. And the historical facts of the week.

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Cristina Conacel

Cristina is a web developer and the owner of BootstrapBay. She likes foxes, clean design, writing blog posts and creating themes that are useful to other developers.