With the holidays almost here and the new year already in sight, December is a time to slow down, an occasion to reflect and plan ahead. To help us escape the everyday hectic for a bit and sweeten our days with a delightful little surprise each day up to Christmas, the web community has assembled some fantastic advent calendars this year. They cater for a daily dose of web design and development goodness with stellar articles, inspiring experiments, and even puzzles to solve. To make the choice of which ones to follow a bit easier, we collected a selection of advent calendars in this Quick Tip for you. No matter if you're a front-end dev, UX designer, or content strategist, we're certain you'll find something to inspire you for the upcoming year. So prepare yourself a nice cup of coffee, cozy up in your favorite chair and, well, enjoy!The post Tech Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers In 2016 appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

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Not too long ago, front-end performance was a mere afterthought. Something that was postponed to the end of a project and that didn't go much beyond minification, asset optimization, and maybe a few adjustments on the server's config file. But things have changed. We have become more conscious of the impact performance has on the user experience, and the tools and techniques that help us cater for snappy experiences have improved and are widely supported now as well.The post The Front-End Performance Challenge: Make Your Site Blazingly Fast And Win Some Smashing Prizes appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

This article was contributed by Anthony Wood, the Global Managing Director of Shillington Education. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of cash flow, it was the age of negative receipts. It was the time of great celebration, it was the time of unparalleled stress. Running your own business is one of the most intense things you can do. There's nothing more rewarding than running a great team and blowing past all your goals, whether it's introducing a new technology to a stagnant industry or carving out your own little corner of a massive market. There's also nothing more stressful than a business on its last legs. Many entrepreneurs sink their life savings into big projects, and face both personal and professional ruin should their business fail. Yet struggling entrepreneurs may overlook one investment that pays for itself many times over: design. Design matters Design is important precisely because there are real monetary benefits. You can't exactly put a dollar value on a responsive website with excellent UX that can work on mobile (phones and tablets) as well as computers (laptops and desktops). But companies that excel in design will see […]

In 2018 I collated an in-depth article on the best data visualization and charting libraries available for JavaScript. In this new 2021 edition, I will be re-rounding up the best,...Continue Reading … The post Best Javascript Chart Libraries for 2021 appeared first on Code Wall.

Access All Areas members have a great collection of vector textures to download this week, courtesy of GhostlyPixels. These 10 Wood Grit Distortions feature a variety of finely detailed textures, isolated with transparent backgrounds. Each texture is supplied as infinitely scalable AI & EPS files, as well as huge 8000x6000px PNG images, making them extremely […] The post 10 Wood Grit Distortion Textures for Access All Areas Members appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

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Numbers in Python operate the same way they do in real life. You can use them for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division – the uses go on and on. You can perform any equation in Python that you can in real life – and even a few that you can’t. The great thing about Python is […] The post Working with Python Numbers appeared first on Developer.com.

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