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Cool Things of the Week (Web Design Edition #6)

Fun fact in history this week: On 12th of September, 1855 Jacobus of Looy was born in Haarlem, Netherlands. He is known as a writer and painter. The image featured in the article is called Summer Abundance and you can see it live at the Rijksmuseum.

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

  • Apple’s annual September conference was live on Wednesday. A lot of new release, including 3 new iPhones. You can see them here. The design and transitions on this page are pretty remarkable.

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  • If you are getting ready for an interview, this site featuring flash cards with usual interview questions might help: You can select specific skills or collections for a certain job.

flash-card-for-developers

  • Oracle’s cookie policy is a pretty long. We have never seen so many cookies on a website before.
  • This SASS cheatsheet is really useful when you are getting started with SASS or want to dive deeper. You can also check out more of their related cheatsheets. Definitely worth a bookmark.

sass-cheatsheet

  • This infographic showing the results of the Swedish election looks great. The dark theme, choice of colours and animations all work together well.

swedish-site

  • If you are getting started with JavaScript and CSS, starting to create something hands-on might speed up your learning process. Here is a popular tutorial for coding a calculator:

  • If you are installing Chrome of Mozilla on a Windows 10 you will be prompted with a surprise screen. Nice try, Microsoft.

microsoft-screen

The resources featured in this blog post are the result of us browsing some cool 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.