28. August 2016

Use a Koala to compile Less, Sass, Compass and CoffeeScript

„Koala is a GUI application for Less, Sass, Compass and CoffeeScript compilation, to help web developers to use them more efficiently. Koala can run in windows, linux and mac.“

Koala / GitHub

22. August 2016

Parser for CSS in PHP

The library allows you to extract CSS files into a data structure, manipulate the data and output optimized CSS.

PHP-CSS-Parser

12. August 2016

Build faster websites with a flat-file CMS like Grav

„Grav is a Fast, Simple, and Flexible, file-based Web-platform. There is Zero installation required. Just extract the ZIP archive, and you are already up and running. It follows similar principles to other flat-file CMS platforms, but has a different design philosophy than most.

Grav comes with a powerful Package Management System to allow for simple installation and upgrading of plugins and themes, as well as simple updating of Grav itself.“

Grav@GitHub

10. August 2016

Angled Edges … Quickly create angled section edges using only Sass

A Sass mixin for creating angled edges on sections by dynamically encoding SVGs.

@include angled-edge('outside bottom','lower right', #EE3924);

1	@include angled-edge('outside bottom','lower right', #EE3924);

Angled Edges

10. August 2016

Transformicons … Animated icons, symbols and buttons using SVG and CSS

Transformicons are animated symbols/buttons/icons that morph using a combination of SVG, CSS and HTML.
They also offer a builder to tweak the set.

transformicons.add('.tcon') // add default behavior for all elements with the class .tcon
              .remove('.tcon-menu--xcross') // remove default behavior for the first icon
              .add('.tcon-menu--xcross', {
                  transform: "mouseover",
                  revert: "mouseout"
              }); // add new behavior for the first icon

transformicons.add('.tcon') // add default behavior for all elements with the class .tcon

.remove('.tcon-menu--xcross') // remove default behavior for the first icon

.add('.tcon-menu--xcross', {

transform: "mouseover",

revert: "mouseout"

}); // add new behavior for the first icon

Transformicons

31. Mai 2016

Plyr.io – A simple, accessible and customizable HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player

A simple, accessible and customizable HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player.

Accessible – full support for VTT captions and screen readers
Lightweight – under 10KB minified and gzipped
Customisable – make the player look how you want with the markup you want
Semantic – uses the right elements. <input type="range"> for volume and <progress> for progress and well,<button>s for buttons. There’s no <span> or <a href="#"> button hacks
Responsive – as you’d expect these days
HTML Video & Audio – support for both formats
Embedded Video – support for YouTube and Vimeo video playback
API – toggle playback, volume, seeking, and more
Universal events – no messing around with Vimeo and YouTube APIs, all events are universal across formats
Fullscreen – supports native fullscreen with fallback to „full window“ modes
i18n support – support for internationalization of controls
No dependencies – written in „vanilla“ JavaScript, no jQuery required
SASS and LESS provided – If you like these over plain CSS

GitHub

27. Mai 2016

Clippy the CSS clip-path maker

The clip-path property allows you to make complex shapes in CSS by clipping an element to a basic shape (circle, ellipse, polygon, or inset), or to an SVG source.

Can you use it ? Check CanIUse ..

Clippy allows you to create those clip paths with use. Use presets or create your own. Copy and past css and you are done ;)

Clippy

25. Mai 2016

Responsive Emails with MJML

MJML is a markup language designed to reduce the pain of coding a responsive email. Its semantic syntax makes it easy and straightforward and its rich standard components library speeds up your development time and lightens your email codebase. MJML’s open-source engine generates high quality responsive HTML compliant with best practices.

<mjml>
  <mj-body>
    <mj-container>
      <mj-section>
        <mj-column>

          <mj-image width="100" src="/assets/img/logo-small.png"></mj-image>

          <mj-divider border-color="#F45E43"></mj-divider>

          <mj-text font-size="20px" color="#F45E43" font-family="helvetica">Hello World</mj-text>

        </mj-column>
      </mj-section>
    </mj-container>
  </mj-body>
</mjml>

<mjml>

<mj-body>

<mj-container>

<mj-section>

<mj-column>

<mj-image width="100" src="/assets/img/logo-small.png"></mj-image>

<mj-divider border-color="#F45E43"></mj-divider>

<mj-text font-size="20px" color="#F45E43" font-family="helvetica">Hello World</mj-text>

</mj-column>

</mj-section>

</mj-container>

</mj-body>

</mjml>

mjml

21. Mai 2016

Extract dominant image color and apply it to its parent with Adaptive Backgrounds

A simple jQuery plugin to extract the dominant color of an image and apply it to the background of its parent element.

Github / Demo

21. Mai 2016

Flexbox Patterns … components build to flex

And another website dealing with Flexbox patterns.

„Flexbox is awesome, but it introduces many new concepts that can make it difficult to use. These interactive examples will show you practical ways to use it to build UI components. They start out simple and get more complex near the end. You can start using these patterns in your own code right away, though I recommend you apply accessibility best practices to the markup (like using semantic HTML5 elements).“

Check it out / Github