This is a book that gives you a solid introduction to animating using CSS, combining theory with practical lessons. You will learn how, and why to use animation on your web pages and hopefully be inspired to try it on your own projects. Created and shared at GitHub by CSS Animation and Donovan Hutchinson, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

This Javascript book series consists of five books, each of which explores a key aspect of JavaScript development comprehensively. Created by Nicolás Bevacqua and licensed under Creative Commons.

This is a guide for those who want to learn about web development. It outlines the practice of front-end engineering, how to approach it and what tools are used when practising it in 2018. It's also useful to gain insights into the practice of front-end development. This guide is written by Cody Lindley, a front-end/JavaScript developer and recovering Flash developer with over 20 years of experience in the field.

A Non-Designer's Guide to Creating Visually Captivating Presentations is a book that will raise your awareness on how to prepare and build fantastic and practical presentations. It walks you through a set of visual examples with case studies and cheat sheets for practical design. In general, this book comprehends the means to visually make the audience care for the content of your presentations.

The need to optimise our sites and apps for performance has become more important than ever. In this free e-book front-end developers, engineers, and web performance advocates explain just why performance matters how to convince your clients and how to improve the performance of your sites.

If you get it right, typography can be incredibly powerful. Take the mystery out of font selection with this step by step guide from Google Fonts!

We ve compiled insights from O Reilly authors editors and speakers so you can dive deep into the latest in technology and business.

Spawned from a series of discussions online about whether School is better than Self Teaching and vice versa, and a lack of resources online dealing with the fundamentals of Design Theory, Reddit user Quanticus compiled this awesome eBook containing concepts that are meant to be building blocks to help aspiring designers assess what they're creating and learning how to think about design, instead of providing set-on-stone rules to follow. Big ups to Quanticus for writing this awesome resource!

This site is a collection of examples, video and other information to help you learn CSS Grid Layout. Developed and maintained by Rachel Andrew. You'll find a wealth of information, articles, videos, tutorials and everything in between related to developing great looking grids as well as some ready made grid patterns.

Scrimba is a community of developers sharing knowledge through interactive coding screencasts. In this article, you'll find a free CSS Grid course by Per Harald Borgen and Magnus Holm. Learn CSS Grid fundamentals, build your first grid, responsive grids, create pages, image grids, and articles. Quick website prototyping as well as advanced concepts.

"Design Principles are a set of considerations that form the basis of any good product." They help teams with decision making through a few simple principles or constructive questions to serve as guidelines for teams to work towards making appropriate design-oriented decisions. Principles.design aims to work as an open source resource to find such examples of design principles, maintained by Ben Brignell where anyone can submit useful examples and guidelines through their GitHub repository for consideration.

An article by Brad Peabody comparing Node, Java, Go, and PHP with Apache, discussing how the different languages model their I/O, the advantages and disadvantages of each model, and conclude with some rudimentary benchmarks. If you’re concerned about the I/O performance of your next web application, this article is for you.

A stunning compilation of 450 free tech-related online courses for all levels of knowledge put together by Dhawal Shah divided in 3 categories based on how advanced the student is: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced. 112 Courses for beginners, 252 Intermediate level courses, and 86 courses for the most advanced professionals, there is definitely something to learn from this collection for everyone working in the fields of computer sciences.

This brief Typography Crash Course, written by Denise Bosler, contains six short lessons to learn from and improve your knowledge of typographic design, which you can study quick and easy in just a few minutes.

In 5 Tactics for Motion Typography, an excerpt from Type Idea Index written by Jim Krause, a compelling typography tutorial is offered, incorporating energy into communication design. Krause introduces important typography terms and information on print and web typography options.

A great resource for reference and learning, this is useful handbook created to help you learn the broadest classifications of typefaces. These are the basic foundations of what you need to learn about typography, essential for any designer or aspiring designer. Includes a brief history as well as the key characteristics of each classification, plus it looks great on print!

Very useful for both beginners and advanced web developers, these Ruby on Rails screencasts contain great tips, tricks, and tutorials. Also, RailCasts Pro episodes are now free, so you definitely want to check these out if you're looking to learn some new techniques or refresh previously obtained knowledge.

Published by Lou Levit, this is a superb collection of 50 Google Fonts mixed and matched with eachother, the fonts were hand picked to provide visually compelling pairings, intended as a resource for reference in personal and professional graphic projects, and a much appreciated time saver as well.

A complete (168 pages) PDF guide with all you need to learn about front-end development, it covers all the possible topics you will face in 2017

'A really helpful article about insights from Chrome’s networking stack to explain how web loading work, by Addy Osmani'

A really useful guide with precise tips to improve your editorial design, it includes samples and explanation.

A comprehensive set of charts pointing the paths that you can take and the technologies that you would want to learn in order to become a frontend, backend or a devops professional in 2017

A really complete Color Theory Guide for people who code, thanks to Natalya Shelburne.

'I decided to write this article to provide some answers to many questions that I previously asked myself. For example:How do I reach 100,000 views on Behance?'

'A new concept for creating fonts: color fonts. Basically a color font file is actually just a regular font file that embeds additional data to display more graphic properties than the contour shapes of a character, it can be vector or bitmap based'