Weekly News for Designers № 548

The Types of Freelance Design Clients You Should Avoid – How to spot a bad client from a mile away.

Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Plugin Development – Follow this guide to learn the basics of building your own WordPress plugins.

Make me think! – Taking the right approach to UX design.

Irregular-shaped Links with Subgrid – Techniques for linking up card UIs that go beyond traditional borders.

Creating a Menu Image Animation on Hover – Learn how to create a hover effect for a menu where images appear with an animation on each item.

HTML – Simplified Code – A collection of design elements that outputs simplified code for your projects.

jExcel CE – A lightweight Vanilla JavaScript plugin to create amazing web-based interactive HTML tables and spreadsheets.

An Ode to Adobe Flash: How It Helped Move the Web Forward – As Flash fades into the past, its impact can still be felt.

Zettlr – A free Markdown editor aimed at professional writers.

Covid19 Free UI Kit – A free set of UI elements and layouts for Sketch and Adobe XD.

Scroll to text fragment: How to link & highlight any text on a web page – Use this detailed guide to add text fragment highlighting to any page.

The 20 Best Free Outline Fonts – Add some unique style to your projects with these stunning fonts.

Accordion Rows in CSS Grid – Designer Eric Meyer details his use of CSS Grid on his website’s new layout.

1-Line Layouts* – A collection of modern layouts and sizing techniques that demonstrate the power of CSS.

Flexbox Cheatsheet – A guide featuring 12 tips and tricks that every web developer should know.

harmonograph.art – A browser-based tool that lets you draw, download and share a randomized harmonograph.

The Chinese Type Archive – An on-going, collaborative, open-access index of Chinese typographic resources.

Profile Pro – Easily generate avatars with any background and use them with a simple download or a copy-paste.

Dark Ages of the Web – Notes on all the old-school techniques used by web designers back in the day.

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