Thumbnail to Full Width Image Animation

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The other day I stumbled upon this fantastic animation by Akram Khalid which he also coded up as part of a tutorial on page transitions with React Router and Framer Motion. The GitHub repo can be found here. It’s a really beautiful design and I wanted to have a go on experimenting with it and animating the initial thumbnail view to a full image (with article), using only scale transforms.

I also wanted to add some smooth scrolling and on-scroll animations, so I’ve used Locomotive Scroll. The beautiful images are by DeMorris Byrd.

This is highly experimental and it turned out to be a complex process. But I hope it gives you some of sort idea and entry point of how to pull off these kind of animations without touching the width and height of an element.

The main idea behind this technique is to scale an element and then counter-scale the child. Paul Lewis and Stephen McGruer show how to do that on a menu using expand and collapse animations. Avoiding animating the width and height of an element helps keep performance in check.

So what we do is to initially set the scale of the content__intro wrapper to a value that will make it shrink to an exact size. Then we set a counter scale to the image. This will make the image maintain the same size as before. Then, we add another scale to the image, shrinking it also the to the target size.

<div class=”content__intro content__breakout”>
<img class=”content__intro-img” src=”img/1.jpg” alt=”Some image” />
</div>

Having the initial width and height of an element and also the target dimensions, we can calculate the scale values of the outer wrapper based on this:

let introTransform = {
scaleX: imageSettings.imageWidthEnd / imageSettings.imageWidthStart,
scaleY: imageSettings.imageHeightEnd / imageSettings.imageHeightStart,
y: (winsize.height/2 – introRect.top) – introRect.height/2
};

We also move the element to be centered on the screen (y).

We define these initial (start) and target (end) dimensions as variable in our CSS:

body {
…
–image-height-start: 555px;
–image-width-end: 260px;
–image-height-end: 320px;
}

Our starting width is 100% of the viewport width, so we don’t need to set that here. The image will then have the following scale applied:

gsap.set(this.DOM.introImg, {
scaleX: 1/introTransform.scaleX * imageSettings.imageWidthEnd / this.DOM.introImg.clientWidth,
scaleY: 1/introTransform.scaleY * imageSettings.imageHeightEnd / this.DOM.introImg.clientHeight
});

1/introTransform.scaleX is the counter scale of the outer wrapper. The second value that we multiply makes sure that we scale the image down to our desired size, just like we did with the outer wrapper before.

And that’s the main idea behind the scaling magic.

I hope this gives you a starting point for these kind of tricky animations! Thank you for checking it out ?

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Using Mobx As A State Manager In React Native Applications

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Using Mobx As A State Manager In React Native Applications

Using Mobx As A State Manager In React Native Applications

Fortune Ikechi

2020-08-26T11:00:00+00:00
2020-08-27T11:33:40+00:00

State management is an integral part of developing JavaScript applications especially React and React Native applications. In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to use the MobX library for state management; understand the core concepts, some use cases and build a simple example.

Note: Basic knowledge of Javascript and React Native will be of great benefit as you work through this tutorial.

Using MobX In React Applications

State is the data that your component(s) is working with — it holds the data that a component requires and it dictates what a component renders. State management is the process of managing how the state gets updated and passed from one component to another. Monitoring and working with data in an application can be difficult and that’s the need for state management libraries. Handling all the data for your application can be a little daunting especially when your application grows in size and complexity, building your own state management tool is not just time-consuming but difficult, This is why you might want to use a state management library.

However, it is important to know that state isn’t the only data that a component renders, components can also render props passed down to it.

Options For State Management

State management libraries for React Native applications include; React Context API, Redux, MobX and Unstated Next.

Although these state managers each have their advantages and disadvantages, I personally recommend MobX because of its simplicity, minimal boilerplate code — it doesn’t require you change your code, this is because in its core, MobX is and looks like JavaScript; you don’t need a change of architecture to support it (unlike Redux and to a lesser extent Context).

In fact it’s such an invisible abstraction that in many cases if you take out all of the MobX code — the @observable, @computed, @action and observer decorators, your code will work exactly the same (though it’ll have some performance issues) and it’s not limited to a global state. These are some reasons to go forward with MobX as a state manager of choice for your React Native applications.

Although it’s also important to note some issues with using MobX as a state manager, some of which include its avoidance of rules on how to implement it and MobX can be difficult to debug especially when you change state directly in a component without using the @actions parameter.

What Is MobX?

According to the official documentation, MobX is a battle-tested library that makes state management simple and scalable by transparently applying functional reactive programming. MobX treats your application like a spreadsheet. The logic is that Anything that can be derived from the application state, should be done automatically.

MobX state architecture

MobX state architecture. (Large preview)

Core Principles And Concept Of MobX

MobX differentiates itself from other state managers with the following concepts.

1. State

State is the data your application holds — it’s roughly the entire contents of its memory. This also applies to your components.

2. Derivations

In MobX, anything that can be derived from the state without interactions is a derivation. Examples of derivations include:

User interface,
Backend add-ons such as changes to a server.

MobX has two mains types of derivations:

Computed values
Computed values are mostly values that can be derived from a current state using pure functions.
Reactions
Reactions in derivations are side effects that happen as a results of changes in your application state. They are similar to a computed value, but instead of producing a new value, a reaction produces a side effect for things like printing to the console, making network requests, incrementally updating the React component tree to patch the DOM, and so on.

A golden rule when using MobX is that when creating a value based on the current state, use a computed value.

3. Actions

Unlike derivations, actions are code that cause changes to an application state — code that changes the state. They are anything that modifies the state. With MobX you can make it explicit in your code, Actions are mostly user events such as inputs, backend data pushes or even scheduled events.

To better understand Actions, let’s look at an example from the MobX documentation.

class Ticker {
@observable tick = 0

@action
increment() {
this.tick++ // ‘this’ will always be correct
}
}

const ticker = new Ticker()
setInterval(ticker.increment, 1000)

Here, we set an @observable tick with an initial value of 0. Next, we created a function increment that is also an action that updates the initial value once a tick is made every second.

Observables In MobX

Observables or observable values in MobX are mostly JavaScript primitives, plain objects, classes, arrays and maps. They’re mostly used by first declaring an observable and adding a value to it and then calling it by adding an @observable as shown below:

observable(value)
@observable classProperty = value

Store Architecture Approach In MobX

MobX principal architecture includes parts and ideas such as services, store, view models and containers — some of which are explained below.

Service
This is usually a function called from a container; they can be used to get data from APIs and be added to the store.
Store
As the name implies, this is the central place of the state used by an application. Usually in MobX, these include the observables, variables, actions and computed properties.
Container
This calls service and puts data from View Model to View Component as React props (should be marked with @observer decorator).

MobX In React And Native Applications

For learning purposes, in this tutorial, we are going to build a simple list app that will allow a user to add, view, and delete list items. We will be using MobX as a state manager in this application to add lists, update and delete them from the app state. However, it’s important to note that you already understand the basic concepts of JavaScript and React.

Without further ado, let’s start!

Setting Up Your Environment

Now that we know how what MobX is and how it works, let me walk you through setting up your project.

First, let’s create a project with the following, write the following code on your terminal to initialise a project:

npx create-react-app listapp

The above code will create a bare React application using the create-react-app package. Move into the project directory:

cd listapp

For this app, we will need three components:

TitleInput
This will contain the title for our project and an input form for adding lists.
List
This will be an input form that would allow a user to add a list. It will have an add button to add our list items.
ListsDisplay
This component will display all of the user list items and also a delete button that’s automatically generated when a user adds a list item.

We will use a Store.js to contain the app state and methods to modify it similar to Redux. Let’s outline what they will be used for.

mobx
This is the state manager we will be using for this project.
mobx-react
This is the official React bindings for MobX.
bootstrap
We will be using bootstrap version 4.5 to style our project.
uuid
This is used to automatically create keys for deleting lists.

Having done that, let’s go ahead and install these packages. I will be installing them with an npm alternative done in yarn:

yarn add mobx mobx-react bootstrap@4.5.0 uuid

Once the packages are installed, we will start our app in development mode by running the code below in our terminal:

yarn start

Setting Up Our App Store

Let’s create a store for our project. First, create a file in the root directory of our project called ListStore, this will be the central location of our app state.

For this app, we will need to create a ListStore in order not to repeat ourselves when we use it in other app components.

/*** src/Store.js ***/

import { observable, action, computed } from “mobx”;
import { v4 } from “uuid”;

export class List {
@observable value
@observable done

constructor (value) {
this.id = v4()
this.value = value
}
}

export class ListStore {
@observable lists = []
@observable filter = “”
@action addList = (value) => {
this.lists.push(new List(value))
}

@action deleteList = (list) => {
this.lists = this.lists.filter(t => t !== list)
}
@computed get filteredLists () {
const matchCase = new RegExp(this.filter, “i”)
return this.lists.filter(list=> !this.filter || matchCase.test(list.value))
}
}

In the code above, we imported three functions from mobx.

observable
This holds a variable which can be updated in the event of a change in state.
action
Used to modify the application state.
computed
Values that can be derived from the existing state or other computed values, it changes after a state gets modified.

The class List has two object values which are done and value which will hold the initial state of the app and the modification in the case of changes.

We want our new list to automatically create a key so that we can automatically get a delete button once a list is created, Here uuid is used to automatically create keys in our application.

Next, we added an addList function that will add lists when clicked by using the .push() method to push the list in the array we already created in the @observable lists array.

The deleteList function accepts List as a property which is supposed to be the item the user wants to remove. Then we set the value of this.Lists to a new array after we have removed the selected item.

Both addLists and deleteList are actions because they modify the state of our app when changes are made.

Initializing The MobX Store

Next on our list is to import our store in our App.js and use it in our project.

import React from ‘react’;
import Navbar from “./components/navbar”;
import ListDisplay from “./components/ListDisplay”;
import {ListStore} from ‘./ListStore’;
function App() {
const store = new ListStore()
return (
<div>
<Navbar store={store}/>
<ListDisplay store={store}/>
</div>
);
}
export default App;

Here we imported the TitleInput and ListDisplay components. Then we initialized the store in our App.js in order to be able to pass it as props to the TitleInput and ListDisplay components.

Normally this will throw an error because we’ve not worked on the other components, so let’s do that. Let’s build out the ListDisplay component.

ListDisplay

This component displays all of our added lists and also automatically generates a delete button once a new list is added.

import React from ‘react’

import List from “./List”;
import { observer } from ‘mobx-react’;

function ListDisplay(props) {
const { deleteList, filteredLists } = props.store

return (
<div>
<div className=”container”>
{filteredLists.map(list => (
<List key={list.id}
list={list}
deleteList={deleteList}
/>
))}
</div>
</div>
)
}
export default observer(ListDisplay)

For this component, we created a function ListDisplay and made it an observer, we also destructure the list and deletelist functions from the store, by doing this, we made it easier to pass then as object props.

Next, we map through filteredLists to return the lists, which we then use in building the individual list by passing the returned item as props to the List component.

Once done, our component should look like this with lists added:

The list display component

Lists displayed by `ListDisplay` component. (Large preview)

Next is to add a List and TitleInput components.

List Component

Just like our other components, our List component will export the list as an observer in order to help the store watch it for changes.

import React from ‘react’
import { observer } from ‘mobx-react’
function List(props) {
return (
<div className=”card”>
<div className=”card-body”>
<div className=”d-flex justify-content-between
align-items-center”>
<p className={`title ${props.list.done
? “text-secondary” : “”}`}>
{props.list.value}
</p>
<div>
<button
onClick={props.deleteList.bind(this, props.list)}
className=”btn btn-danger
font-weight-bold py-2 px-5 ml-2″>
Delete
</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
)
}
export default observer(List)

I used the bootstrap to create cards in the first set of divs and also align the delete icon to move towards the right-hand side of the app. First, we created a card component to handle our list and then we created a button tag for the delete button that will accept two objects of this and pass a prop to the list, this will on click, will remove the selected list item from the lists in the page.

The list component

A single list component with the delete button. (Large preview)

Next is to our TitleInput which will contain our input form for adding lists and the title for the project.

TitleInput

Similar to our other projects, we will be adding an @observer function so that the component will be able to accept props from the app Store.

import React, { useState } from ‘react’
import { observer } from ‘mobx-react’
function Navbar(props) {
const [value, setValue] = useState(“”)

const {addList} = props.store
const prepareAddList = (e) => {
e.preventDefault()
addList(value)
setValue(“”)
}
return (
<div className=”container mt-3″>
<h1 className=”title”>List App</h1>
<form onSubmit={prepareAddList} className=”form-group”>
<div className=”row ml-lg-2″>
<input className=”form-control-lg col-12 col-lg-9
col-sm-12 mr-3 border border-secondary”
value={value} type=”text” onChange={(e) =>
setValue(e.target.value)} placeholder=”Enter list”
/>
<button className=”col-lg-2 col-5 col-sm-5 mt-2
mt-lg-0 mt-sm-2 btn btn-lg btn-success
font-weight-bold”>
Add to List
</button>
</div>
</form>
</div>
)
}
export default observer(Navbar)

First, we initialized an initial state. Using React Hooks, we added an initial state called values which we set to an empty string. We use this to hold the value of what is entered in the input field. To know more about React Hooks, you can check out this article by David Abiodun.

Then we called an object for adding lists to the store addList and passed it as props from the app store.

Next we created a function preparedAddList to accept an event object for the input forms, we also added a button for adding the lists manually on click.

Almost done, we need to restart our project server by running:

yarn start

And our TitleInput should look like this:

A title input

Title and input component. (Large preview)

We are now done with all of our app components, so let’s assemble it in our App.js. To do that, we need to import our components titleInput and ListDisplay. We also need to import our store from the Store component.

In order for MobX to work in our App, we need to pass the MobX store as props in our App and individual components so that they get the properties and functions in the store.

import React from ‘react’;
import Navbar from “./components/navbar”;
import ListDisplay from “./components/ListDisplay”;
import {ListStore} from ‘./ListStore’;
function App() {
const store = new ListStore()
return (
<div>
<Navbar store={store}/>
<ListDisplay store={store}/>
</div>
);
}
export default App;

Our app should look like this when completed:

Completed list app

(Large preview)

Conclusion

MobX is a great state manager especially for React-based applications, building our list app, we’ve learned the basic concepts of MobX, state, derivations, and actions. A working version of this app can be found here:

You can take this further by using MobX in the next application you build that involves the management of state. I’d love to see what new things you come up with. You can read more on MobX and state management applications in the references below.

Resources And References

“React Native with MobX — Getting Started,” Nader Dabit, Medium
“Concepts & Principles” MobX (official documentation)
“Best Practices With React Hooks,” Adeneye David Abiodun, Smashing Magazine

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Top 50 jQuery Gallery & Image Sliders for 2020

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Since usually the best galleries are created in jQuery, we’ve mainly focused on jQuery type sliders, but there are a few simple CSS galleries as well. This collection has been organized into five main categories so you can easy switch to your preferred section. Before we start, we wanted to tell you that it’s up to you to go for a free or premium solution for your jQuery gallery or slider.

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We did find quite a few free quality image solutions, that you will enjoy. Of course, with premium resources – there were some galleries that simply blew us away.

Table of Contents

jQuery Image Slideshows
jQuery Image Galleries
jQuery Image Sliders
jQuery Portfolio, News and Tour Sliders
CSS Based Galleries

Just go through the collection and find the best image solution for your needs. If it’s a personal project, surely you will not want to spend any money. But on other hand, if it’s a freelance job, maybe it’s worth spending a little money to really leave an impact on your client and save lots of time at the same time!

I guess what I am suggesting is to always look at how much time it takes for you to modify, install, or setup a free solution. If you aren’t as skilled or it’s time consuming – definitely look into pre-made code and inexpensive but high-quality tools like these.

jQuery Image Slideshows

Below you will find all the best jQuery slideshows. Usually slideshows are used on top of the website to present the most important parts in the most fashionable way.

1. AviaSlider

AviaSlider - jQuery Slideshow

AviaSlider is a very flexible and easy to use image slideshow plug-in built with jQuery. It has a set of really unique transitions that I have not seen anywhere else, as well as some basic transitions.

It comes with an image pre-loader so the slider starts working only when images are loaded and ready to be presented. No clumsy animations with half loaded images.

To see how it works live, here is a demo preview.

2. Jssorr (Free)

Jssor Image slider

Jssor Slider is a touch swipe image slideshow with 360+ JavaScript slideshow effects. When you touch Jssor Slider, it will freeze the animation and swipe slides to the direction that your finger moves to.

There are more than 360 different effects, you can check all of them here. My own favourite slideshow effects are the simple fade and carousel slider.

3. S3Slider (Free)

s3slider-jquery

S3Slider a jQuery Slideshow with three different features and displaying sides. You can easily adjust the size of the slider and  delay the change speed. Oh, and it comes with a really good documentation, too.

4. Camera Slideshow (Free)

camera-jQuery-image-slideshow

Camera slideshow is a jQuery plugin, that can also be used as a WordPress plugin.

It comes with 33 build-in themes, but you can be creative too, because slideshow has a CSS file included, where you can customize the parts you want.

You can easily implement HTML objects, videos, and captions. One downside is that this slideshow is based on a project called Diapo, that is no longer supported. But still, it has been tested on all major browsers.

Check the live demo here.

5. Sequence JS (Free)

Sequence_js-javascript-slider

Sequence JS is a JavaScript slideshow based on a CSS framework. It’s meant to be used for creating sliders, banners, presentations and other step-based applications.

If free pre-built themes aren’t enough for you, check out their own theme shop. You can also simply order your custom-made theme. But as I look at it, you really do get all you need in the free version, plus there are quite a bit free themes available.

6. jQuery Banner Rotator / Slideshow

jQuery-Banner-Rotator

This is a jQuery banner rotator plugin featuring multiple transitions. The thumbnails and buttons allow for easy navigation for your banners/ads. The banner rotator is also re-sizeable and configurable through the plugin parameters.

7. Slide JS (Free)

Slides-JS-jQuery-slideshow

Slide JS is a jQuery plugin that is responsive, has touch support, easy setup, and CSS3 transitions. It’s great to be displayed as a starting page of your website, and it is free. It also has full documentation, check the live preview on their home page.

8. Slideshow 2 (Free)

slideshow

Slideshow 2 is a JavaScript class for Mootools 1.2 to stream and animate the presentation of images on your website. Please visit their website for a full feature list.

9. JavaScript TinySlideshow (Free)

javascrip-tinyslideshow

This dynamic JavaScript slideshow is a lightweight (5kb) and free image gallery / slideshow script.

You can easily set it to auto-display the images, set the scroll speed, thumbnail opacity or to disable thumbnail slider. I wanted to include it in this collection because it is so lightweight. Click here to download this slideshow and see a live preview.

jQuery Image Galleries

In this section you will find Image Galleries. They are best suitable for portfolios, but can also be used in blogs. So let’s dig in.

10. Galleria

Galleria-JavaScript-Image-Gallery

Galleria is a JavaScript Image Gallery. It’s built so that it simplifies your process of creating a beautiful image gallery. You don’t have to be a programming expert to use it. Just a few lines of code, add some pictures, and you’re done.

Galleria has a lot of great tools, which you can use to create your own image gallery. Galleria, you can see in the screenshot, is the free version, which you can customize as you want.

However, if you want to get any of Galleria other designs, you will need to pay for them, find more on their store. These themes are in price range between $9 and $29.

11. Sideways

sideways-image-jquery-gallery

Sideways Image Gallery is a jQuery plugin with added CSS3 styling. The Gallery is responsive and features full-screen images with different modes and custom scrollbars. It is a modern and eye catching image gallery.

This one is the most suitable for photography portfolio showcasing, because it can really give the right credit to their work.

As if it wasn’t good enough, it’s also free to use. Check out the live preview here.

12. Visual Lightbox

Visual-Lightbox-Gallery

VisualLightBox is a free wizard jQuery program that helps you easily generate web photo galleries. It is based on famous LightBox2 script. In a few clicks you can create breathtaking galleries without writing a single line of code.

On their website they offer a lot of templates, that can be used for variety of purposes. It is the most suitable for travel agencies, adventure blogs, and work portfolio websites.

13. TripTracker

Trip-Tracker-slideshow

The TripTracker slideshow is a lightweight JavaScript image viewer with an animated slideshow feature. It does exactly what it says that it does. There are no extra options, it is a simple photo viewer. Very suitable for articles.

Click here to try it out.

14. NoobSlide

noobslide

NoobSlide has 8 different examples of how to view your images using MooTools. Unfortunately, there isn’t any documentation, but it is a very easy to use gallery and worth checking out.It can be used as a showcase on a travel blog or even a portfolio.

15. PrettyPhoto

Pretty-Photo-jQuery-lightbox-slider

Pretty Photo is a jQuery Lightbox clone. Pretty similar to original Lightbox with few added features and full documentation. It is easy to setup and very flexible.

This plugin supports videos, Ajax, and iframes. It can be used for single photos or galleries. Galleries can also have mixed content. It is very suitable for different types of blogs.

For a demo and download, visit them here.

16. Unite Gallery

Unite-Gallery-jQuery-plugin

Unite Gallery is a modern gallery that uses jQuery. It is modular designed, with customization in mind. You can also create your own theme with ease.

This gallery is fully responsive. It offers 9 different skins and is fully documented. You can download it for WordPress, Drupal, PrestaShop, OpenCart and Joomla.

This gallery is suitable for photography showcases or Restaurant menus. It is free to use, as it is released under the MIT license. All in all, it’s a great addition to the image-packed websites.

You can see it in action here.

17. Auto Generating Gallery

auto-generating-gallery

Auto Generating Gallery doesn’t actually take the pictures for you, but it’s pretty smart just the same. This gallery won’t even create the thumbnails for you. What it DOES, is build itself dynamically from your directory of images. So when you want to add new photos, you simply drop the new photo and thumbnail in the directory and you are done! Removing photos just means removing the photos from the image directory. This gallery use PHP for it’s web wizardry. You can find a complete tutorial and demo here.

18. HighSlide JS

Highslide-JS-JavaScript-gallery

Highslide JS is an open source JavaScript software, offering a Web 2.0 approach to pop-up windows. It streamlines the use of thumbnail images and HTML pop-ups on web pages. You can use it asa  thumbnail viewer or scrolling HTML content holder.

A live preview of its functionality can be found here.

19. Flat-styled Polaroid gallery

Scattered-Polaroids-Gallery-jQuery-slider

Polaroid gallery is available as a jQuery plugin. It takes the vintage look of Polaroid pictures to the next level.

Strengths of Polaroid Gallery include that it is designed with responsive and flat design in mind. Polaroid Gallery also offers shuffle transition and content holders if you need it. The images can flip and show the back as well.

This gallery is a good choice for travelers or bloggers who want to show off their last adventure.

Make sure to see it in action here.

jQuery Image Sliders

This section is dedicated to all the best and most beautiful sliders, both premium and free. They do a similar job as the Slideshows, but can emphasize content holders.

20. Touch Enabled RoyalSlider

RoyalSlider_-_Touch-Enabled_Image_Gallery_and_Content_Slider_Plugin

Royal Slider is a jQuery image gallery and more. This slider can be used as an image slider, slideshow, HTML content slider, gallery, banner rotator, video gallery carousel, or just as a presentation. Options are limitless. This full-featured slider is also available as a WordPress plugin.

It has built-in animated captions, supports touch for mobile devices, and is fully responsive. This is a must have jQuery image slider. Check out the live preview here.

21. LayerSlider

LayerSlider-jQuery-Slider

LayerSlider is a premium WordPress plugin for creating beautiful image galleries, content sliders, and amazing slideshows with unbelievable effects.

LayerSlider comes with 13 built-in skins. It has more than 200 2D and 3D slide transitions and 3 types of navigation. LayerSlider also offers support for mobile devices and multiple layouts.

You can add any content, from images, text, custom HTML, YouTube video, and Vimeo video to HTML5 self-hosted multimedia content.

By allowing you to build semantic markup with custom attributes that search engines can index easily, it is also SEO friendly.

See it for yourself here.

22. UnoSlider

UnoSlider jQuery plugin

UnoSlider is a image slider that comes as a WordPress and jQuery plugin. It has unlimited transition animations.

This image slider is fully responsive and is also compatible with older browsers. Layers are very well animated with lots of customization options. Setup and use are simple.

UnoSlider features more than 30 animation options, per-slide options and is easy to theme. This slider is also equipped with public API, image pre-loader, and has the ability to hold multiple sliders on one page. HTML content can be shown as well. Choose from 12 pre built themes and more than 40 transitions options.

You can see a demo of this amazing image slider here.

23. Master Slider

Master-Slider-jQuery-image-Slider

Master Slider is a high value and quality-designed image and content slider. It is available as a jQuery and WordPress plugin. And it also has a free version.

This slider has everything that you need to build eye catching image and content sliders. It’s fully responsive and can work on any screen or any device. You can choose from 6 different interactive transitions and 25 pre-built templates.

This slider offers touch swipe navigation, animated layers, thumbnails, and tabs. Master Slider is also equipped with smart preloading of images.

24. Wow Slider

WOW-jQuery-Slider

Wow slider is actually a slider for non-coders. It offers a drag and drop menu, that you use to create an image slider for your website.

In the core Wow slider is a jQuery image slider, but it can also operate without jQuery. It can be as light as you want it to be.

The drag and drop creator can generate using an HTML page, or WordPress or Joomla plugin. You can choose from 25 different transitions and it’s free to use.

Main features are:

Fully responsive
Highly customisable
Touch swipe navigation
All browser support
SEO friendly

These are just a few main characteristics. For a full list and live demo check their website.

25. Slider Revolution

Slider Revolution

Slider Revolution is a responsive and full-width slider with must-see-effects and SEO friendliness built-in. See the heaps of custom transitions and animations for each object on the page! Customize this slider with their convenient drag & drop back-end to suit your needs.

This plugin features tons of unique transition effects, an image pre-loader, video embedding, auto-play that stops on user interaction and lots of easy to set up options to create your own effects. Slider Revolution can be purchased as a WordPress, Drupal, PrestaShop, Magento OpenCart and jQuery plugin.

Worried about coding skills? Slider Revolution has Video Support which is easy to follow. No advance coding skills required, easy as cooking bacon. Ah…what am I saying? Just check for yourself.

26. Accordion Slider

Accordion-Slider-jQuery-image-slider

Accordion Slider is a fully responsive jQuery based slider. It’s available also as a WordPress plugin. There is almost nothing you can’t do with it.

Accordion Slider comes with animated layers and smooth animations. You don’t have to compromise with the design, as the slider has touch support for the best possible user experience.

Pagination on this slider is unique, because you can set the number of panels visible per page. The layout is fully customizable.

Because it has a lazy loading feature, the images can be loaded only when they are viewed. You can also set high-resolution images to be loaded only on high PPI screens, as it has support for Retina screens.

Some additional features are available for the WordPress plugin.

27. Fotorama image slider

Fotorama-jQuery-image-slider

Fotorama image slider is simple but at the same time very powerful. You can use it for jQuery or for WordPress and Ruby on Rails . To help you setp Fotorama, they also have a video tutorial.

It is a simple way to show your pictures or images, but powerful enough to blow you away. It’s free to use. Check it out here.

28. All in One Slider

All-in-One-Jquery-Slider

All in One slider is a jQuery slider and comes with five different ways to help you create a beautiful Banner rotator, Thumbnails Banner, Banner with Playlist, Content Slider, and Carousel.

It’s an advanced slider, that allows you to create powerful slides with animated text and HTML tags. This is a powerful tool that provides you with everything you need in development of a website to show your products or images.

All in One slider is fully responsive and touch screen supporting image slider. All in One slider offers 16 different transitions and animated text. Supports all major browsers and is a award winning product.

See it for your self. Here is a live preview.

29. Blueberry Image Slider

Blueberry-jQuery-image-slider

Blueberry image slider is a jQuery plugin, that was developed specifically for responsive web design. Blueberry image slider is an open-source project, based on a 1140px grid system from cssgrid.net. It’s simple and at the same time an excellent free option.

I’m sure you will like it as much as I do. Check the live preview and download option here.

30. RhinoSlider

Rhinoslider-jQuery-slider

RhinoSlider is a jQuery slider that comes with the possibility of customising your version before downloading. This can significantly decrease time spent on setting it up. You can of course download the whole package, but I think the best way is to use the generator.

It is very flexible and offers a lot of options on callbacks and callbefores. You can set it on auto-play or make it stop on hover. Captions are also available and are customisable.

Check for yourselves on their website. It is a great free tool.

31. Slippry

Slippry-jQuery-image-slider

Slippry image slider is a jQuery plugin that uses CSS3 transitions and HTML5 elements. It can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be.

Because the CSS and Sass files are included, you can let your imagination free and style it as you want it. Slippry does its job best at the top of the home page. With captions it can serve as good presentation of a company.

Dont believe us, check it out here for full documentation and a live demo.

32. Un Slider

Unslider-jQuery-image-slider

Unslider is a very simple slider that is based on jQuery. It’s very small but powerful. You can change everything, so it works and feels like you want.

Unslider is really the simplest slider I have come across. You really don’t have to be an expert to use this one. Just add a few lines of code, put in images and you have a slick slider for your website or blog.

Their whole site is a one big demo for this slider.

33. Unleash 3

Unleash-jQuery-Slider

Unleash 3 is another jQuery accordion slider on our list. It’s one of the best there is. You have a lot of options and settings to choose from. You can add captions and controls with different styles or add any other content with multiple CSS3 animations.

Main properties are:

Fully responsive
Full screen mode
Ability to choose a slide when page is loaded
Step by step documentation
Touch support
Video support

34. MightySlider

mightySlider--jQuery-Slider

Mighty Slider is everything you need to create an amazing one-directional slider. Mighty Slider can be used as a banner rotator, video gallery, presentation and basic slider. All of this is possible because of a very powerful API. Mighty Slider gives you total control over layout and design.

35. Fullscreen Slit slider

Fullscreen-Slit-jQuery-Slider

Fullscreen Slit Slider is a jQuery plugin and uses CCS3 animations. Slider can stretch across the whole viewport or be used as slider inside of other context.

Fullscreen Slit Slider is fully responsive and has some unique split screen transitions. With captions it is a great way of representing your cause to the visitors.

Check it out in action. I am sure you will be amazed of what this free slider can do.

jQuery Portfolio, News & Tour Sliders

This section is dedicated to sliders that are particularly designed to showcase portfolios, news, and tours.

36. jQuery Carousel Evolution

jQuery-Carousel-Evolution-jQuery-slider

jQuery Carousel Evolution is an easy and low cost way to create an eye catching product or team presentation. Yes it’s a premium slider, but it delivers a great value for it’s money.

jQuery Carousel Evolution is a powerful slider that uses HTML markup. It offers 9 different styles for sliders. This slider also supports YouTube and Vimeo video implementation. All major browsers are also supported.

You can check the demo here.

37. Cube Portfolio – Responsive jQuery Grid Plugin

Cube-porfolio-jQuery-responsive-slider

Cube Portfolio is a very cool jQuery plugin with tons of animations. It offers custom captions and plays well with your current HTML and CSS code.

Cube Portfolio provides 30+ options, that gives you complete layout and design control. Slider has fully responsive design and is fully customizable. It uses CSS3 animations and you can choose from 19 starter pack templates. Cube Portfolio is also equipped with a filtering system.

It is best used for vertical sliders, portfolio projects, team members presentation, photography showcasing, or other mosaic grids. Usage is limitless. Cube Portfolio is also available as a WordPress plugin.

Check live preview here.

38. Slideme

slideme-jQuery-slider

This jQuery plugin is great for the top of the website, to present your work or say more about you.

Slideme has got full documentation and a tutorial how to set up your slider, for every type of device individually. Design is fully responsive with CSS3 animations. It is easy to setup and provides a public API.

Slideme is free to use and definitely worth a look. Check out the demo here.

39. PgwSlider

PgwSlider-jQuery-slider

Pgw slider is a jQuery slider, that is designed for showcasing your images. This slider is fully responsive. It is lightweight and all-browser compatible. Pgw slider is also SEO friendly.

This slider is very suitable for news or blogging websites as it can show your most recent post or articles.

For full features and a demo slider click here.

40. All Around Content Slider

All-Around-jQuery-Slider

All Around slider is a multi purpose jQuery slider. You can use it as a carousel or slider. It also supports video. All Around slider offers 6 pre built themes or layouts and ton of options.

Slider is equipped with a drag and move circles option and infinite loop. Besides that, it’s fully responsive with mobile support. Every single image can be magnified and can contain a description, too.

All Around slider is best used as a product showcase or team presentation.

Check live preview here.

41. Lens Slider

Lens-Jquery-Slider

Lens Slider is an open-source project and so, fully customisable. Slider uses very simple HTML markup of an unordered list. Images are shown as you can see in the screenshot. No other option is available. Lens Slider is also available as a WordPress plugin and free to use.

The most suitable usage would be for products, services, or ateam presentation.

Check it out here.

42. Gridder

Gridder-js-jQuery-slider

Gridder is an awesome slider for showcasing your work. Gridder kind of mimics Google image search. To view the larger picture you click on a thumbnail and it expands. This is a great way to show a large number of images at the same time.

Gridder is available as a jQuery or Ajax thumbnail previewer. It is an awesome free solution for your next portfolio project.

For jQuery live preview check here. If you want Ajax click here.

43. Barack Slideshow 0.3

Barack-JS-Slideshow

Barack Slideshow is an elegant, lightweight slideshow written in JavaScript. This slideshow can operate with vertical, horizontal, and irregular lists. The images are preloaded with MooTool Assets. To keep your code clean, you should check the CSS code. This means changing some parts if needed.

Barack Slideshow can be used as a portfolio showcase, product list, or even for listing your clients.

Here you can find a demo and test different options.

44. jQZoom Evolution

jqzoom JQ Zoom Evolution

JQZoom is a JavaScript image magnifier, built on top of the popular jQuery JavaScript framework. jQZoom is a great and really easy to use script to magnify parts of your image.

This image magnifier is the most suitable for online stores and restaurants menus.

Find the documentation and demo here.

45. Multimedia Portfolio 2

Multimedia-Portfolio-2-jQuery slider

Multimedia Portfolio 2 is a jQuery plugin that can automatically detect the extension of each media file and apply the appropriate player. It supports images and videos. Multimedia Portfolio uses simple HTML markup and it’s easy to use.

This slider is best suitable for showcasing products, services, and even news.

Check out their demo.

46. jQuery Virtual Tour

jquery-virtual-tour

jQuery Virtual tour is an extension of the simple panorama viewer. This jQuery virtual tour allows you to transform some panoramic views into a virtual tour! It’s a great plugin that is worth looking at.

You can find a demo and download options here.

47.jQuery Vertical News Slider

Vertical News-jQuery-Slider

jQuery Vertical News slider is very useful for websites that want to show some news or marketing campaigns on their sites. It’s responsive and uses CSS3 animations. Vertical News slider also allows you to fully customise the style of the slider.

Check out the live preview here.

48. Multi Item Slider

Multi-Item-jQuery-Slider

This gallery is also a tutorial on how to create it on your own. Multi item jQuery gallery was inspired by Apple slider, that shows multiple products at once. It’s fully responsive with a flat design with a variety of effects.

Multi item jQuery gallery is very suitable for online stores for showcasing their products. It comes with simple navigation, as seen in the screenshot. The navigation is intuitive for changing between a variety of categories.

For a live preview click here.

CSS Based Galleries

We have come to our last section, where you will find the best pure CSS Based Galleries. They may not be as popular but are sure worth a try. See it for yourselves.

49. HoverBox Image Gallery

hoverbox-image-gallery

HoverBox Image Gallery is basically a super light-weight (8kb) roll-over photo gallery that uses nothing but CSS. For faster loading it only uses one image for thumbnail and roll-over preview. All major browsers are supported. HoverBox Image Gallery is free to use for your own projects.

It is best used as a photography showcasing for photographers, any type of portfolio and restaurant menus.

Live preview here.

50. CSS Image slider with 3-D transitions

css3-image-slider

CSS image slider is an experimental project that also includes a full tutorial. For animation purposes it uses CSS and CSS3 techniques with the addition of 3-D effects on transitions. Intended usage is strictly as an image slider.

CSS image slider can be used for product and service showcasing. In my opinion it could do well also as an image slider in a full width article.

Check out the live preview.

51. CSS3 Animated Image Gallery

CSS3-Animated-Image-Gallery

CSS3 animated image gallery uses CSS3 and HTML5 to render effects. The images zoom in when you hover over them. This enables a more detailed look. If you are interested, you can take a look at the tutorial and create it yourself. Otherwise you can just download the source code.

CSS3 animated image gallery it’s suitable for photography showcases.

52. Filtronio CSS3 Portfolio

Filtronio-CSS-image-gallery

Filtronio CSS3 portfolio is a great pure CSS and HTML5 gallery for showcasing your portfolio or even your products.

It’s simple but at the same time a very powerful and professional portfolio gallery. You can choose from 3 different themes. Filtronio CSS3 portfolio also offers animated layers and a category filter. Gallery is clean coded and easy to customize.

Check out the live demo here.

53. Pure CSS3 Image Gallery

Pure-CSS3-image-gallery

This is a simple CSS3 image gallery that creates the effect of a pop up window when you click on the image. It’s suitable for showcasing portfolios on the websites. If you are interested, you can also follow the tutorial to make it by yourself.

Check out the live preview.

54. CSS Lightbox Image Gallery

CSS-Lightbox-Image-gallery

This image gallery is another pure CSS gallery. It zooms out on images when they’re clicked. You can download the source code, or if you feel like it, go trough the tutorial..

CSS Lightbox image Gallery should be used on a non-scrollable website. However this can be overridden with a single line of JavaScript, that is included at the end of the tutorial. The most suitable usage would be a portfolio showcase.

55. Slidea

Slidea-jquery-image-slider

And here is a gem of this collection, Slidea. Slidea is a multi purpose content slider. This slider plugin was build on the jQuery, VelocityJS and Animus animation framework. With Slidea there are no animation limitations–you can so much awesomeness with it!

I can try to describe how cool it is, but just check the demo and you’ll understand why I like it so much!

Conclusion

I have to say I really enjoyed researching these plugins. We found amazing sliders that will, hopefully, help you to work on your next project more efficiently. There’s something for every situation here.

There are so many amazing sliders and slideshows that it’s hard to decide what to pinpoint. But in my opinion you should definitely check out Gridder slider, because it’s really amazing what it can do, especially for free, so it’s a win-win situation.

And you definitely should not forget Slidea. Yes it’s a premium slider, but it carries so much value it’s well worth the investment!

If you enjoyed our article, share it with your friends, and tell us if we missed your favorite slider.

Which is your favorite gallery plugin? We would love to hear your experiences!

Editor’s note: this article was last updated August 26, 2020.


40 Firefox Add-ons For Better Productivity

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Anyone who uses the Internet spends a lot of time on browsing the web. However, people always appreciate if they can save time during their borwsing experience. So if Firefox is your go-to browser…

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Awesome Demos Roundup #17

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I’m so excited to share another packed roundup with you! This time we have lots of CSS trickery and creative WebGL explorations that will leave you itching for experimenting more. I love, love, love all of them but my personal favorite in this collection is the wonderful Disintegration demo by Sikriti Dakua, it’s absolutely amazing!

I really hope you enjoy this set and get some creative inspiration for your next coding exploration!

CSS folded poster effect

by Lynn Fisher

3D Polaroid World

by ilithya

reactanoid

by Paul Henschel

Glowing buttons

by Pranjal Bhadu

DISINTEGRATION

by Sikriti Dakua

3D banners with ScrollTrigger

by supamike

Download button

by Aaron Iker

Mustache Guy

by We the Collective

Particle Emitter

by Keita Yamada

Bubbles Lamp

by ilithya

rubik-cube

by Aaron Bird

Onboarding sequence

by Mikael Ainalem

CSS collector’s cabinet

by Lynn Fisher

Cursor with String Attached

by Sikriti Dakua

PopCSSicles

by Adam Kuhn

Mars Explorer

by Hai Le

CSS leaning card effect

by Lynn Fisher

dropplets

by Oscar Salazar

Floating island

by Kasper De Bruyne

Mandala maker

by Amit Sheen

Depth peeling & SS refraction

by Domenico Bruzzese

Rubber Mesh Swipe Transition

by Yugam

Responsive “No div” truck

by Jhey Tompkins

Turning pages with CSS

by Amit Sheen

The Girl With A [pearl] CSS Earring

by Louise Flanagan

Three.js animated ice cream truck

by Stívali Serna

CSS Animated 3D Toaster

by Jhey Tompkins

Bubbles

by Gianmarco Simone

2020.08.08

by Ikeda Ryou

CSS is Awesome

by Mikael Ainalem

Radios Under the Hood

by Jon Kantner

HOME & WORK

by Sikriti Dakua

Shader Transition 6

by masuwa

Marquee Page Border

by Ryan Mulligan

Only CSS: Moon Clip

by Yusuke Nakaya

luv

by ycw

Victrola

by Ricardo Oliva Alonso

Impossible Checkbox

by Jhey Tompkins

Glowing tree

by Robin Payot

CSS-Cab

by Ricardo Oliva Alonso

3D CSS Book Promo

by Jhey Tompkins

3D Image Transition (mouse wheel)

by Kevin Levron

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Popular Design News of the Week: August 17, 2020 – August 23, 2020

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Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the most popular designer news that we curated from the past week.

10 Best Logo Fonts for your Next Logo Project

 

UI Playbook – The Documented Collection of UI Components

 

10 Factors to Consider When Choosing the Best Web Hosting Service

 

Best Practices in Responsive Landing Page Creation for Beginners

 

19 Useful Google Apps Scripts to Automate Google Drive

 

Simple, Open Source Alternative to Google Analytics

 

EazyCSS – No Code CSS Editor for any Website

 

I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It was Impossible

 

Full Site Editing in WordPress: Lowering Barriers to Entry or the End of Themes?

 

How to Start a Successful Membership Business Without a Huge Audience

 

Biden-Harris Logo

 

Slate, Create Beautiful, Responsive API Documentation

 

Responsive Vs. Adaptive: 7 Best Mobile Web Design Practices

 

Fleava Digital Agency

 

Nightmare: I Tried to Use WordPress with Github Pages

 

Podcastle – Convert News/Articles to a Podcast Using ML

 

Create a Custom Color Palette for the WordPress Gutenberg Editor

 

5 Most Annoying Website Features I Face as a Blind Person Every Single Day

 

Building a Design System Library

 

Choosing Typography for Web Design: 5 Things to Consider

 

Why do We Interface?

 

How to Create a Great Design System for your Brand

 

How to Clone a WordPress Site

 

5 Steps to Improve your Logo Design

 

Turning Stock Charts into Landscape Art

 

Want more? No problem! Keep track of top design news from around the web with Webdesigner News.

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The Node.js Event Loop: A Developer’s Guide to Concepts & Code

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The Node.js Event Loop

Asynchrony in any programming language is hard. Concepts like concurrency, parallelism, and deadlocks make even the most seasoned engineers shiver. Code that executes asynchronously is unpredictable and difficult to trace when there are bugs. The problem is inescapable because modern computing has multiple cores. There’s a thermal limit in each single core of the CPU, and nothing is getting any faster. This puts pressure on the developer to write efficient code that takes advantage of the hardware.

JavaScript is single-threaded, but does this limit Node from utilizing modern architecture? One of the biggest challenges is dealing with multiple threads because of its inherent complexity. Spinning up new threads and managing context switch in between is expensive. Both the operating system and the programmer must do a lot of work to deliver a solution that has many edge cases. In this take, I’ll show you how Node deals with this quagmire via the event loop. I’ll explore every part of the Node.js event loop and demonstrate how it works. One of the “killer app” features in Node is this loop because it solved a hard problem in a radical new way.

What is the Event Loop?

The event loop is a single-threaded, non-blocking, and asynchronously concurrent loop. For those without a computer science degree, imagine a web request that does a database lookup. A single thread can only do one thing at a time. Instead of waiting on the database to respond, it continues to pick up other tasks in the queue. In the event loop, the main loop unwinds the call stack and doesn’t wait on callbacks. Because the loop doesn’t block, it’s free to work on more than one web request at a time. Multiple requests can get queued at the same time, which makes it concurrent. The loop doesn’t wait for everything from one request to complete, but picks up callbacks as they come without blocking.

The loop itself is semi-infinite, meaning if the call stack or the callback queue are empty it can exit the loop. Think of the call stack as synchronous code that unwinds, like console.log, before the loop polls for more work. Node uses libuv under the covers to poll the operating system for callbacks from incoming connections.

You may be wondering, why does the event loop execute in a single thread? Threads are relatively heavy in memory for the data it needs per connection. Threads are operating system resources that spin up, and this doesn’t scale to thousands of active connections.

Multiple threads in general also complicate the story. If a callback comes back with data, it must marshal context back to the executing thread. Context switching between threads is slow, because it must synchronize current state like the call stack or local variables. The event loop crushes bugs when multiple threads share resources, because it’s single-threaded. A single-threaded loop cuts thread-safety edge cases and can context switch much faster. This is the real genius behind the loop. It makes effective use of connections and threads while remaining scalable.

Enough theory; time to see what this looks like in code. Feel free to follow along in a REPL or download the source code.

Semi-infinite Loop

The biggest question the event loop must answer is whether the loop is alive. If so, it figures out how long to wait on the callback queue. At each iteration, the loop unwinds the call stack, then polls.

Here’s an example that blocks the main loop:

setTimeout(
() => console.log(‘Hi from the callback queue’),
5000); // Keep the loop alive for this long

const stopTime = Date.now() + 2000;
while (Date.now() < stopTime) {} // Block the main loop

If you run this code, note the loop gets blocked for two seconds. But the loop stays alive until the callback executes in five seconds. Once the main loop unblocks, the polling mechanism figures out how long it waits on callbacks. This loop dies when the call stack unwinds and there are no more callbacks left.

The Callback Queue

Now, what happens when I block the main loop and then schedule a callback? Once the loop gets blocked, it doesn’t put more callbacks on the queue:

const stopTime = Date.now() + 2000;
while (Date.now() < stopTime) {} // Block the main loop

// This takes 7 secs to execute
setTimeout(() => console.log(‘Ran callback A’), 5000);

This time the loop stays alive for seven seconds. The event loop is dumb in its simplicity. It has no way of knowing what might get queued in the future. In a real system, incoming callbacks get queued and execute as the main loop is free to poll. The event loop goes through several phases sequentially when it’s unblocked. So, to ace that job interview about the loop, avoid fancy jargon like “event emitter” or “reactor pattern”. It’s a humble single-threaded loop, concurrent, and non-blocking.

The Event Loop with async/await

To avoid blocking the main loop, one idea is to wrap synchronous I/O around async/await:

const fs = require(‘fs’);
const readFileSync = async (path) => await fs.readFileSync(path);

readFileSync(‘readme.md’).then((data) => console.log(data));
console.log(‘The event loop continues without blocking…’);

Anything that comes after the await comes from the callback queue. The code reads like synchronously blocking code, but it doesn’t block. Note async/await makes readFileSync thenable, which takes it off the main loop. Think of anything that comes after await as non-blocking via a callback.

Full disclosure: the code above is for demonstration purposes only. In real code, I recommend fs.readFile, which fires a callback that can be wrapped around a promise. The general intent is still valid, because this takes blocking I/O off the main loop.

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20 Freshest Web Designs, August 2020

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In this month’s collection of the freshest web designs from the last four weeks the dominant trend is attention to detail.

You’ll find plenty of animation, in fact, almost every one of these sites uses animation to a greater or lesser degree. Let’s dive in:

Globekit

Globekit is a tool that allows developers to quickly create animated and interactive globes and embed them on web pages. Its site features some exceptional 3D animation.

Yolélé

Yolélé is food company built around fonio, a West African super grain. Its site features a great page transition, and the landing page carousel is one of the few examples of horizontal scrolling we’ve seen work well.

Begonia

Begonia is a Taiwanese design agency with an impressive client list. Its site features animated typography, a super bold splash screen, and some surreal artwork. There’s so much here, it’s almost overwhelming.

Next Big Thing

Next Big Thing is an agency supporting the full lifecycle of start-ups. Its site is clearly targeting tech-based clients, and there are some lovely transitions. The masked hero transition on scroll is delightful.

Proper

We all have every reason for the odd sleepless night right now, but regular sleep is essential for our health. Proper offers sleep solutions from coaching to supplements on its subtly shaded site.

The Oyster & Fish House

The site for The Oyster & Fish House is packed with some delightful details. We love the subtle wave textures, the photography has a nostalgic feel, and the typography is perfectly sophisticated.

Drink Sustainably

Fat Tire produces America’s first certified carbon neutral beer, and Drink Sustainably has been produced to explain the concept. We love the vintage advertising style of the artwork.

Treaty

It seems like every week there’s a new CBD brand launching. What we like about Treaty’s site is the slick fullscreen video, the inclusion of botanical illustrations, and the really brave use of whitespace.

Studio Louise

You’re greeted on Studio Louise’s site by a shot of trees with two random shapes; as you scroll the shapes morph and relocate to the top right corner, and you suddenly realize they’re an “S” and an “L”, cue: smiles.

Wünder

Another site for a CBD product, this time a vibrantly branded sparkling beverage. Wünder’s site features enticing photography, an on-trend color palette, and credible typography.

Seal + Co

Some professions lend themselves to exciting, aspirational sites, and some companies are accountancy firms. However Seal + Co’s site creates the impression of a modern, capable, and imaginative firm.

DocSpo

There is some lovely, 3D animation on the DocSpo site. The company is a Swedish startup enabling digital business proposals, and its site is bold, Appleesque, and packed with nice details.

Motley

We never get tired of particle effects, like the one employed by Finland-based agency Motley. There’s some superb work in the portfolio, and it’s great to see a blog using Old Master paintings for thumbnails.

The Ornamental

The Ornamental sources leather goods for wealthy individuals, and luxury lifestyle firms. Its site is minimal, with some drool-worthy handbags. We particularly liked the image zoom hover effect in the store.

G.F Smith

G.F Smith is one of the world’s leading paper suppliers. Its redesigned site is much simpler than its last, with some lovely touches, like the varied paper photography when you hover over product thumbnails.

Raters

Raters is a new app that lets you discover new movies via reviews from people you trust. This simple site does an exceptional job of previewing the app, across multiple device sizes.

Fleava

There’s a whole heap of nice interactive details on Fleava’s site, from the cursor-following circles when hovering over links, to the way the thumbnails are squeezed when dragging through projects.

The Story of Babushka

A babushka doll is a traditional Russian toy, made up of dolls, nested inside dolls. The Story of Babushka uses the toy as a metaphor for growth in this children’s book, and the accompanying animated website.

Grand Matter

After the uniformity of the 2010s, there are a wealth of illustration styles being explored across the web. Grand Matter is an artist agency that represents some amazing talent, and we love the illustration they chose themselves.

Nathan Young

Nathan Young’s site does exactly what it needs to do: Providing case studies for his design work. The fade-out on scroll is a simple device that elevates the whole site experience.

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7 Great Ways to Increase Your Productivity

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In 1915, Albert Einstein presented his brilliant and revolutionary theory of relativity. After completely devoting himself to its creation, without being distracted by anything else. We’re not…

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