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12 Free Modal Window Libraries & Plugins For Your Site – Top picks of the best free modal window plugins, all with a variety of features and styles to choose from.
12 Free Modal Window Libraries & Plugins For Your Site

Pixel Wave – Animation for seamless page transitions.
Pixel Wave

Animating Border – The challenge of creating a transitioning border for a hover state.
Animating Border

The Frontend Job Interview Preparation Guide – A guide to help you prepare and practice for your next Frontend job interview.
The Frontend Job Interview Preparation Guide

WordPressify – A build system designed to automate your WordPress development workflow.
WordPressify

Simple Icon Generator – Build your own icons by filling out a form.
Simple Icon Generator

Why CSS Grid is better than Bootstrap for creating layouts – The many layout benefits CSS Grid brings over Bootstrap.
Why CSS Grid is better than Bootstrap for creating layouts

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines—for People Who Haven’t Read Them – Stripping out the legalese and explaining the guidelines in plain terms.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines—for People Who Haven't Read Them

Muuri – Responsive, sortable, filterable and draggable grid layouts.
Muuri

Best practices for site search design – Search can be a powerful tool for improving UX. And it only gets more powerful when you follow these best practices.
Best practices for site search design

Manageable Utility Systems with CSS Variables – A look at the difference between Sass variables and new CSS variables.
Manageable Utility Systems with CSS Variables

The Ultimate UX Guide to Color Design – A bookmark-able guide detailing the fundamentals of color theory and practice for designers.
The Ultimate UX Guide to Color Design

The UX Design Trends to Watch out for in 2018 – Based on predictions from experts around the web, here are the most notable UX trends to watch for as we approach 2018.
The UX Design Trends to Watch out for in 2018

The 8pt Grid: Consistent Spacing in UI Design with Sketch – Master spacing in your UI designs.
The 8pt Grid: Consistent Spacing in UI Design with Sketch

Zigzag Image–Text Layouts Make Scanning Less Efficient – An aligned layout makes for easier reading.
Zigzag Image–Text Layouts Make Scanning Less Efficient

Parcel – A blazing fast, zero configuration web application bundler.
Parcel

Understanding CSS Variables – Learn about CSS Variables, complete with helpful code snippets.
Understanding CSS Variables

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