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How Do You Know Your Website Is A Success?

by Nick Babich

There are more than 1.8 billion websites on the Internet right now, and the number is growing. What makes your website stand out? In order to make sure your website is a success, it’s important to keep the big picture in mind.

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Getting Started With CSS Layout

by Rachel Andrew

Whether you’re fairly new to CSS or an experienced developer from elsewhere in the stack who wants to make sure your understanding of layout today is up to date, this guide covers everything you need to know about CSS Layout today.

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Jen Simmons the person of the week

Person Of The Week

Jen Simmons has been working on everything web for two decades. She’s been experimenting with what’s possible on the web, and she’s been writing and speaking about what she learned and discovered for years. Most recently Jen created Firefox Grid Inspector and launched Layout Land, a YouTube series on what’s now possible in graphic design on the web. Thanks for pushing the web forward, Jen! Your work matters.

Preet Shihn

Hand-Drawn UI Elements

You’d like to give your wireframes a hand-drawn look? Then Preet Shihn’s Wired Elements are for you. The UI elements are hand drawn with enough randomness that no two renderings will be exactly the same.

Adam Wathan

Refactoring UI

You’re tired of relying on Bootstrap? Refactoring UI teaches you to design great UIs by yourself using specific tactics explained from a developer’s point of view.

Design Systems

Is your pattern library up to date today? Alla Kholmatova has just finished a fully fledged book on Design Systems and how to get them right. With common traps, gotchas and the lessons she learned. Hardcover, eBook. Just sayin'.

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