10 Character Designs Created Entirely With HTML & CSS
I’m constantly surprised at just how much you can do with CSS. Web developers know that CSS lets you build some incredible page layouts and custom animation effects. But you…
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Jake Rocheleau (144 Articles)
Jake Rocheleau is a passionate web designer and social media entrepreneur. He is frequently researching the latest trends in digital design and new-age Internet ideas. He's also an advocate for the social media revolution - follow his updates on Twitter @jakerocheleau.
9 Free Progress Bar JavaScript Plugins For Web Designers
Progress bars can be used for loading pages, pulling Ajax content, or for handling basic user input tasks like file uploads. The newer HTML5 progress bars make it super easy…
10 Free CSS & JavaScript Select Box Snippets
The default HTML select boxes have served us well for decades. But in the modern era, it’s fair to say they’re a little… stale. Designers can do better and thanks…
9 Custom Open Source File Upload Field Snippets
You can find amazing tools for improving web forms, ranging from UI kits to advanced jQuery plugins. But one of the toughest input fields to edit is the upload field….
10 Useful Material Design Code Snippets
The material design craze is taking the web world by storm. Every month I find new sites running on the material style using frameworks or custom UI kits. But this…
10 Talks & Presentations on the Future of CSS
Every year it seems like there’s more web development and UX conferences. They include a bunch of speakers who share the latest industry happenings with frontend development, user experience and…
8 Free WordPress Maintenance and “Coming Soon” Plugins
When you run a website you’ll inevitably have maintenance and downtime. This can be server issues or work being done on the site like changing a theme or testing new…
10 Amazing CSS & JavaScript Text Animation Snippets
You can make some pretty dazzling text effects with basic CSS and a few lines of JavaScript. These effects range from text display animations to 3D rotations or anything else…
12 Free Modal Window Libraries & Plugins For Your Site
Browser alerts are just plain annoying. Nobody’s ever liked them. But it’s all we had until modal windows came around. Thanks to the rapidly advancing JavaScript techniques we have today,…
The 10 Most Popular Open Source Front-End Web UI Kits
You can save loads of development time by working with frontend UI kits. The most popular is Bootstrap although far too many homogeneous sites rely on that framework. To give…
10 YouTube Channels For Learning Basic Frontend Development
Learning to code is easier now than ever before. You can find tons of free tutorials covering the basics of frontend development. And really that boils down to just 3…
10 Code Snippets for Creating Masonry Grid Layouts
Tumblr and Pinterest popularized the masonry grid. It is a common layout style for variable sized images, and it’s a great way to get images to fit nicely into a…