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You’ve probably seen these gorgeous scrolling portfolios lately, featured on Codrops and several Awwwards portfolios. When I began to dig in to the methods for building one, I was disappointed to find most of them use Javascript or worse, WebGL. I thought back to the “news ticker” of yesteryear, knowing it was possible to recreate these effects in CSS alone, allowing for a leaner, better experience overall. Here, we combine 5 powerful CSS properties for an optimally responsive horizontal scrolling portfolio with text and hover effects.

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You’re going to freak when you see how bad most of these are.

Stop using floats and empty columns. CSS Flexbox and Grid are the right way to layout when you have control of your markup.

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When Spotify launched their colorful new brand identity, featuring hip duo-toned imagery, it went hand-in-hand with a new Colorizer tool that allows artists to apply a variety of filters to images, the effects now widely popular. This tutorial will show you how to use pure CSS to achieve a wide variety of Spotify colorizer effects that can be applied to any image. – Featured on CodePen Spark

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One of the challenges of coding premium WordPress themes is the unpredictable nature of how they will be used. Compared to coding a custom website, especially one using static HTML documents where you have complete control over the markup, you have to solve problems creatively and ensure flexibility. In these cases, CSS selectors make all the difference.

Because sometimes simple is best.

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Hero headers or hero images are one of the most frequently used and aesthetically pleasing web design trends, and will likely remain strong for many years to come. There are several ways to use a hero image in web design, but here I show you how to add a zoom effect as the page is scrolled.

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Last week I demonstrated how to build a split-screen website layout using CSS flexbox and viewport units that offers an alternative way to present a brand’s featured content. Clicking on one side or the other navigates further into the site without a page load, using CSS transitions and 3d transforms. This week, I’ll show you how to use these same techniques to add animation and movement to the content and buttons.

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There is no better time than the end of the year for some fresh inspiration! One of the most popular trends this year, features splitscreen layouts, lots of white space, clean typography and subtle effects. With this playful trend in mind, I’ve created a two-part tutorial to show you how to use flexbox, 3D transforms and Animate.css to create a delightful landing page for a fictional fashion brand.

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Getting content to center perfectly within an element and then ensuring it responds properly at different screen sizes is one of the biggest challenges that still face front-end designers. It is not that it is difficult, but because there are several ways to go about it, figuring out which method is best can be confusing. Let me clear it up.

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CSS Transitions and transforms work beautifully for creating visual interactions based on single state changes. Using @keyframes has a wide range of design application like dazzling pre-loaders, interactive interfaces, effects or full-scale storytelling. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to apply what you know about CSS transitions to quickly master animation, and how to use @keyframes for applying various style rules to your element at different intervals.

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Front-end development is quickly becoming more and more focused on efficiency – faster loading and rendering through selector choice and minimizing code. Pre-processors like Less and SCSS go a long way in doing some of the work for us, but there are plenty of ways to write minimal, quick CSS the native way. This guide covers 20 Pro CSS Tips to help help you create a personal starting framework that is not only efficient, but solves many common problems.

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“Animation” is a loose term, in web design usually referring to anything that involves movement. CSS transitions are one tool we are given to manipulate elements on state changes or mouse events, and when combines with transform, can resize, rotate, skew or flip elements to create a variety of interactions and effects. In this tutorial, you’ll learn a simple way to create CSS animation with transitions and transforms.

Type is the single most important element of any design. It is the vehicle that directly communicates marketing messages, interface usage, stories and ideas. Type is the supporting structure of the page layout, the setter of moods, a brand communicator and an attention getter. In the mobile world, type is just as important as it is on the desktop. It may even be more important, as it takes the place of complex imagery in many mobile designs. Perfecting the typography of your own mobile design doesn't have to be an obscure or foreboding practice. Here are five best practices used