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WordPress 5.5 arrives with lazy loading, sitemap, automatic updates for plugins and themes – A look at the new features and improvements within the latest release of WordPress.
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The Just in Case Mindset in CSS – How to think ahead and prepare your CSS for content that is longer than anticipated.
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The Data Visualisation Catalogue – A resource for learning about the different types of data visualization, including examples.
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UI Playbook – An effort to document common UI components, their functionality, best practices, accessibility requirements and examples.
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1Keys – How I Made a Piano in only 1kb of JavaScript – Follow this tutorial to learn how to create an interactive piano with minimal code.
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How I Structure My CSS (for Now) – One designer’s evolving take on structuring CSS.
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Form design best practices – Learn how to improve the design of digital forms.
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The Kindness of Strangers: Developer Edition – A reminder that the web design community is one big family.
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Free Education illustrations – Level up your back-to-school projects with this free collection of 24 vector images.
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You’ll Never Be a Design Specialist by Generalizing Your Skills – An effective alternative to learning too many skills.
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Freebie: Haze Lightroom Presets – Use these Lightroom presets to bring a more airy and subtle feel to your photos.
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How to build a CSS minifier with 8 lines of Javascript – Squeeze out every last drop of performance from your CSS with this tutorial.
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Create a Custom Color Palette for the WordPress Gutenberg Editor – Stay on-brand by limiting the block editor’s color choices.
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danfo.js – A JavaScript package that provides fast, flexible, and expressive data structures designed to make working with “relational” or “labeled” data both easy and intuitive.
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Bathe – A simple, yet powerful WordPress starter theme.
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20 Best Free Book Mockup Templates for Photoshop – Use these templates to visualize your book cover designs.
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The Icon of – Icon set – Download this free collection of pixel-perfect icons for use in Figma.
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