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Email Design

How We Did It: Building the New Tuts+ Email Templates

Tutorial • Beginner

The Tuts+ emails (newsletters, digests etc.) recently underwent a complete overhaul, including new designs and a new platform. This case study will explain...

Nicole Merlin • 13 Jun 2016
Animation

New Coffee Break Course on CSS Keyframe Animations

Tutorial • Beginner

CSS keyframe animations offer designers a powerful way to create animations in the browser without having to rely on external plugins or extensive...

Andrew Blackman • 10 Jun 2016
Responsive Design

How to Build a News Website Layout with Flexbox

Tutorial • Intermediate

It’s not necessary to understand every aspect of Flexbox before you can jump in and get started. In this tutorial, we’re going to introduce a few features of...

Jeremy Thomas • 1 Jun 2016
CSS

Troubleshoot a Website in 60 Seconds

Tutorial • Beginner

Troubleshooting websites can be complex, but you can start with the same basics every time. Here’s how, in sixty seconds!

Kezz Bracey • 9 May 2016
JavaScript for Designers

Selecting Parent Elements With CSS and jQuery

Tutorial • Beginner

In this tutorial we will walk through a few cases where having a CSS parent selector might come in handy, along with some possible workarounds. Let’s get...

Thoriq Firdaus • 2 May 2016
HTML

Quick Tip: Using CSS Counters to Style Incremental Elements

Tutorial • Beginner

In this quick tip, we’ll cover the very basics of CSS counters; a useful, yet not so well-known CSS feature. When we’re done building our demo, we’ll take a...

George Martsoukos • 20 Apr 2016
Web Typography

Better CSS Drop Caps With “initial-letter”

Tutorial • Beginner

Drop caps are a form of decoration sometimes used at the beginning of a block of text; the initial letter running several lines deep and indenting the body...

Ian Yates • 13 Apr 2016
Performance

Quick Tip: Make AMP’s Inline CSS Easier With Jade or PHP

Tutorial • Beginner

If you see yourself making more than one AMP template you’ll want to find a way to write your CSS in an external stylesheet so your usual workflow is...

Kezz Bracey • 5 Apr 2016
CSS

Quick Tip: How to Extend CodeKit with “Hooks”

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this quick tip I’ll show you how to use CodeKit Hooks in order to extend CodeKit and add extra tools to your workflow.

Thoriq Firdaus • 4 Apr 2016
Animation

Ease in to Cubic Bezier Functions in Our Coffee Break Course

Tutorial • Beginner

One way to breath a bit more life and a bit more personality into animation on the web is to experiment with different settings of easing. In this Coffee...

Andrew Blackman • 16 Mar 2016
Animation

Revisiting the CSS Background Property

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this tutorial we’re going to look into one of the older, more familiar CSS properties: background. background is one of several CSS properties whose...

Thoriq Firdaus • 14 Mar 2016
CSS

Project: Continuing Our Website Build With Middleman

Tutorial • Beginner

In this tutorial we’ll continue building our podcast site. We’ll begin styling our index of posts, create a nice little footer and throw a bit of color into...

Ed Wassermann • 22 Feb 2016