30+ Best Scene and Mockup Generators of 2019

It isn’t always easy to find the right mockup for your header or feature image. Using a mockup generator can help you tweak and customize a mockup to match your needs perfectly. Mostly because high-quality stock photos and images are hard to find, and can come with hefty price tags. Even when you do find […]
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An Initial Implementation of clip-path: path();

One thing that has long surprised (and saddened) me is that the clip-path property, as awesome as it is, only takes a few values. The circle() and ellipse() functions are nice, but hiding overflows and rounding with border-radius generally helps there already. Perhaps the most useful value is polygon() because it allows us to draw a shape out of straight lines at arbitrary points.

Here’s a demo of each value:

See the Pen clip-path examples by Chris Coyier (…

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6 Tips on How to Write the Perfect Story About Yourself

An excellent book takes about three or four years to finish – an excellent movie about four. When it comes to your life story, it could take a lifetime. Deciding to publish your biography, or at least something close to it, takes courage and persistence, so congrats! Here you can find six tips on how …
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People Talkin’ Shapes

Codrops has a very nice article on CSS Shapes from Tania Rascia. You might know shape-outside is for redefining the area by which text is floated around that element, allowing for some interesting design opportunities. But there are a couple of genuine CSS tricks in here:

  1. Float shape-outside elements both right and left to get text to flow between them.
  2. You can set shape-outside to take an image and use shape-image-threshold to adjust where the text flows, meaning you could

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9 Year Old Shares his Journey Learning React

If learning React is among your New Year’s goals, here’s some inspiration from nine-year-old Revel Carlberg West. The video below is a recording of his presentation at the React NYC meetup. West describes how he learned basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and then moved on to learn React using the (more…)
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Transforming a WordPress site into a Mobile Application with Plugins

It’s a well-known fact that the mobile app sector is going through a boom. It was reported that, the majority of internet consumption in the US is directed from mobile users. The same trend is behind the popularity of responsive design in the recent years. In a recent survey, it was revealed that 65 percent of …
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6 WordPress Plugins To Boost User Engagement And Cut Your Bounce Rate

Finding ways to get people to visit your WordPress site is always a battle. So when you do finally get them there, you should always be on the lookout for ways to keep them there. You want to reduce your bounce rate and get visitors to stay on your site longer, view more of your …
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Animating Between Views in React

You know how some sites and web apps have that neat native feel when transitioning between two pages or views? Sarah Drasner has shown some good examples and even a Vue library to boot.

These animations are the type of features that can turn a good user experience into a great one. But to achieve this in a React stack, it is necessary to couple crucial parts in your application: the routing logic and the animation tooling.

Let’s start with …

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