Jake Rocheleau

Jake is a writer and designer with over 10 years experience working on the web. He writes about user experience design and cool resources for designers

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Responsive Images Made Easy with ResponsifyJS

The modern web should be 100% responsive and newer libraries are making this increasingly possible. With free plugins, such as ResponsifyJS, it’s ev…

Generate Social Meta Tags Easily with This App

The largest social media sites have practically taken over the world, with Facebook currently pushing towards 2 billion users worldwide. One of their …

Create Cascading Effects Easily with CascadeJS

Fancy animations are a dime a dozen on the web. They’re getting easier to create with tons of incredible animation libraries. Cascade.js is one more…

Developers: Larder is The Bookmarking Tool You’ll Love

GitHub is a powerful resource for developers to connect and share work. But, it’s not the best organizational tool for saving and sorting through li…

Create Custom Right-Click Context Menus with justContext.js

Every web browser has a default context menu. This appears when the user right-clicks anywhere on a page and it usually has the same options, such as …

Run & Share Snippets With Glot.io

There are dozens of browser-based IDEs but most of them focus on frontend languages: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Glot.io is a new contender, focusing o…

IcoFont Gives You 2100+ Free Icons in a Single Font File

With the rise of web fonts and embeddable CSS fonts, it’s much easier nowadays to create truly unique websites from scratch. The newest trend is ico…

Build Dynamic Graphs Quickly on D3 with Plottable.js

The free D3.js library is just one of many that lets you create interactive graphics on the page. While D3 is perhaps the most popular of the bunch, l…

Build Colorful Flat-Themed Websites with CSS Mint UI Kit

Open-source frontend UI kits are all the rage in the development community. They save time on all aspects of laying out grids, styling page elements, …

Add Margin Hover Text to Any Websites Easily with Marginotes

Inline tooltips are fantastic but sometimes they just don’t fit well with certain content. Most websites leave space in the margins along the page b…

Learn Sass, HTML & CSS for Free on MarkSheet

Web development can be intimidating for a complete beginner. There are plenty of free articles and videos to help you learn but they all vary in quali…

Automate :nth-child Selectors with Family.scss Mixins

Sass is the best way to manage modern CSS and mixin libraries can save even more time during the development cycle. These mixins work like automated c…