5 Ways to Improve Your Snapchat Marketing

Wondering how you can stand out on Snapchat? Want to know what’s working for others? Taking a cue from businesses that are successfully using Snapchat can help you strengthen your own brand’s presence on the platform. In this article you’ll discover how to improve your marketing on Snapchat. #1: Provide Specialized Content Many brands use Snapchat [...]

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This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 223)

Read this e-mail on the Web HTML Weekly Issue 223 — January 20, 2016 The Woes of Date Input HTML5 Doctor Ian Devlin documents the various implementation quirks and issues of the ‘date’ input type on mobile and desktop browsers. 22 Essential CSS Recipes Ilya Pestov A great grab-bag of things you can do with CSS along with brief code snippets. Things like gradient borders, counters, and z-index transitions. HTML Tidy Reborn: A Tool To Correct and Clean Up HTML HTACG Tidy is not a new tool but it had fallen into a non-maintained state. A group has now reinvigorated the project and is making it ideal for working with the latest HTML. Dependency-free lightbox and zoom viewer from imgix Imgix  Sponsored Imgix is a real-time image processing service and CDN. Our new libraries enable you to implement lightboxes and zoom viewers without having to create multiple copies of the image, while also delivering it at high quality and speed, to every device or browser. Designing A Product Page Layout with Flexbox Levin Mejia A designer at Shopify looks at how the flexible box model (Flexbox) can be used to create flexible layouts that work across devices. All major browsers now support it. Webmention: A Spec to Notify Remote URLs When You Link to Them W3C A W3C First Public Working Draft of a spec covering a mechanism through which sites can ask to be notified when other sites link to them. webmention.io is a service aiming to help make it easier to implement. CSS Refresher Notes Vasa If you’ve cobbled together your knowledge of CSS piecemeal over the years, as I have, this could be a handy refresher of the main concepts. Leaner Responsive Images With Client Hints Smashing Magazine Client Hints is an initiative spearheaded by Google already available in Chrome and Opera that lets you reduce both image sizes and the verbosity of responsive image markup. Timelined: Customizable Vertical Web Timelines Andrius Built vertical timelines and mix content into the line or to the left or right of it. There are static and dynamic demos to get the idea. It's Time to Rethink Vendor Prefixes in CSS SitePoint Patrick Catanzariti notes that ‘vendor prefixes are fading away as browser teams look for better solutions.’ The Chrome team intend to keep features behind their ‘experimental web platform features’ flag until they’re ready for primetime. Don't Tell Me What My Browser Can't Do Christian Heilmann Christian Heilmann implores us to write defensive code and check for capabilities in browsers rather than break at the first sign of an unfamiliar environment. Jobs Get 10 offers from top tech companies in one week.Indeed Prime is an elite new program from Indeed.com that presents in-demand tech talent like you to top employers. Indeed Prime opens the door to exciting career opportunities with one simple application. Join today. Indeed In brief 10 Years of Web Inspector news A great timeline covering a decade of WebKit’s main developer tool.   WebKit Microsoft Edge Web Summit - San Francisco, April 4th news Free registration opens soon.   Microsoft An HTML5 Player for VR 360° Video - The Next Big Thing? news tools  bitdash We'll take you from beginner to employed engineer, guaranteed course Sign up to start learning everything from HTML to Angular. We guarantee you a job after graduation or your money back.  Thinkful SPONSOR How Not To Misuse ARIA States, Properties and Roles tutorial “ARIA should not be added to HTML content that already has the desired implied semantics.”   Jonathan Avila How I Shrank My CSS by 84kb by Refactoring with ITCSS tutorial  Jordan Koschei Creating a WebGL Game with Unity 5 and 'JavaScript' tutorial Well, UnityScript really, but it’s very similar.   Michaela Lehr Optimizing SVGs for Web Use tutorial  Andreas Larsen The Benefits of Inheritance via @Extend in Sass tutorial  David Nguyen The Axis of Flexbox video Learn about the axes of Flexbox, which are different than the traditional top to bottom, left to right axes.   Guy Routledge Influencing Web Layouts with Print Layouts opinion  Chris Coyier The Current State of Web Security, An Interview with Anselm Hannemann opinion  Robin Rendle Why I Left Gulp and Grunt for npm Scripts opinion  Cory House CSS Gradient Animator tools This simple online tools produces an interesting background effect.   Ian Forrest Flag-Colors: A 600 Color Collection tools Select colors on the page or in Sass, Less, or Stylus. Brand-Colors is similar but using popular brands’ logos.   Piérre vivus.js: Animate SVGs as If They're Being Drawn code  maxwellito Animate Plus: CSS and SVG Animation Library code  Benjamin De Cock voxel.css: 3D Pixel Rendering with CSS code Makes it easy to render Minecraft-esque pixellated block layouts in the browser using 3D CSS.   Hunter John Larco tweezer.js: Small, Dependency-free, ES6 Library for Smooth Animations code  Jackson Geller Pure CSS Apple Keyboard code demo  ByPeople Alex The CSS Husky code demo A clever bit of CSS and SVG-only animation here.   CodePen Give back to the developer community - apply to teach today.  Actively seeking web developers to join our tight knit family of passionate teachers and earn royalties.  Pluralsight SPONSOR Curated by Peter Cooper and published by Cooper Press. Want to post a job? E-mail us or use our self-serve system. Unsubscribe : Change email address : Read this issue on the Web Published by Cooper Press Ltd. 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jQuery Smooth Scroll Plugin

Smooth scroll a jQuery plugin to automatically make same-page links scroll smoothly.

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Atieva

Join Atieva as we create the car of the future, and demonstrate the true advantages of an electric vehicle. Silky smooth site with subtile animations and interactive Canvas backgrounds.
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How to Naturally Bolster Your Company’s Instagram Presence - #infographic

Using Instagram as a business can be huge for reaching new customers and connecting with your current customers, especially if you have a product or service that easily lends itself to taking beautiful photos. However, many businesses just aren’t sure how to promote themselves on this social platform. Luckily for them, there are plenty of ways in which you can build a stronger, more loyal Instagram following without having to run sponsored ads or waiting years for your numbers to explode. Here are three ways your business can naturally find more success using Instagram in 2016.

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Annual Readers Survey Now Open

The start of a new year is a good opportunity to check with you about how we’re doing, and hear what you’d like more of in the future. Matt, Hawk and I are all very keen to get your honest feedback.

If you have a couple of minutes to spare, we’d love your help with a short 5-minute survey we’ve put together.

Your opinions are valuable and will help shape what the year ahead looks like for UX Mastery.

“If I ran UX Mastery I would definitely…”

Answers to this final survey question are in the running for a fantastic prize pack:

• A personal 1 hour UX mentoring session with Luke & Matt
• Any 2 hardcopy+ebook titles of your choice from Rosenfeld Media
• A free 3-month subscription to the fantastic UXPin Pro design and wireframing tools

That’s over $450 worth of advice, learning and UX tools!

The winner will have completed every survey question, and have the most impressive answer to the final question as judged by Luke, Matt & Hawk. We may even have some runner-up prizes too…

The survey will close at 11:59pm Sunday January 31st (AEDT).

We’ll share with you all a summary of any interesting patterns and statistics (anonymised of course) when the survey is finished, so keep your eyes peeled for that too.

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What’s the Best Programming Language to Learn in 2016?

It's the start of a new year so it's natural to start thinking about your future life and career choices. I've been analyzing 'best language' statistics for several years and we've seen reporting systems rise and fall. GitHut -- one of my favorites -- has not been updated since 2014. There are still a few around so let's look at the most recent data.

TIOBE Index, January 2016

TIOBE's latest report assesses the popularity of programming languages using the number of skilled engineers and search engine rankings. The results:

1. Java
2. C
3. C++
4. C#
5. Python
6. PHP

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