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A Practical Introduction to Material Design Lite by Google

Maria gives a nice overview of the features of Google's Material Design Lite framework and how you can use it in one of your new projects.

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7 Great Front-End Frameworks to Power Your Website UI - Developer's Feed

A front-end framework is a library of useful user interface components that can be integrated into your web applications. Typically using CSS, HTML, and JavaScript, front-end frameworks provide a quick and easy way for web developers to create their desired user interface without having to start from scratch. In addition to saving time, a good front-end framework will use best practices and provide code that is developer friendly and optimized. Most developers are familiar with at least one front-end framework, but you really should be familiar with a few. Here are 7 Great Front-End Frameworks to Power Your Website UI

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Web Design Trends for 2016

Web Design Trends for 2016

C O N T E N T S: KEY TOPICS Are you ready for 2016?(More…) The field of web design is always changing with new tools, workflows, and best practices for constructing usable layouts.(More…) Another trend that is here to stay for 2016 is the use of large HD hero images that grab your attention right from the outset.(More…) This last year marked a huge leap in web design, with the dominance of mobile…

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What is a Front End Framework?

Front end frameworks were created to simplify and unify the design process. A framework is a standardized set of concepts, practices and criteria for dealing with a common type of problem, which can be used as a reference to help us approach and resolve new problems of a similar nature.

Essentially, a front­ end framework contains components written in Html, Css, and Javascript that make designing a user interface much simpler. Keeping to the Dry mentality (Don’t Repeat Yourself) by creating reusable components like inputs and buttons as well as grid systems for page structure building.

Top 3 Front End Frameworks :

- Twitter Bootstrap - http://getbootstrap.com/

- MDL(Material Design Lite) - http://www.getmdl.io/

- Zurb Foundation - http://foundation.zurb.com/

What is my preference and why?

When not designing my own lightweight frameworks I am a heavy Twitter Bootstrap 3 user.  I prefer bootstrap over the others for its heavily tested and supported grid system which i have come to master and there pre compiled less versions variables.less file that can change the entire look and feel of bootstrap to fit the needs of the project.

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Angular Material vs. Material Design Lite

In this article we’re going to explore the options that Google provides us when implementing Material Design in our websites & apps. While both Angular Material and Material Design Lite follow the Material Design specs, each library implements it in a different way. It’s important to mention that both libraries have decent online documentation. They […]

In this article we’re going to explore the options that Google provides us when implementing Material Design in our websites & apps. While both Angular Material and Material Design Lite follow the Material Design specs, each library implements it in a different way. It’s important to mention that both libraries have decent online documentation.

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Test-driving the new Material Design Lite

Last week, I came across an article comparing Bootstrap vs. Material Design Lite. I use Bootstrap almost any chance I get because it instantly lends a clean and up-to-date look and feel to any webpage. It's so easy to just add a hosted stylesheet to my HTML template and voilà, any extra styling I do is gravy.

But it's nice to have options, so my interest in Material Design Lite (MDL for short) was instantly piqued when I saw that article. Released just earlier this month, MDL is supported by Google, while Bootstrap came out of Twitter. As you might expect, the MDL aesthetic follows Google's Material Design, a visual language that is meant to span mobile and desktop worlds. Put another way, it makes websites look more like apps.

And so I decided to experiment with MDL. My Guessing Game project from a couple of weeks back seemed like a great candidate, since it was small and self-contained. It had very little styling besides Bootstrap.

The migration was easy; it only took a few minutes. The first step was to link to the MDL stylesheets and remove references to Bootstrap. Then I had to change all the Bootstrap-specific class tags to MDL-specific ones: class="row" became class="mdl-grid", while class="col-md-4" became class="mdl-cell mdl-cell--4-col", and so on. On the margin, MDL seems a little more verbose, but my own choices probably had something to do with that. Either framework is going to save you lots of writing.

The end result is very nice. The input field has built-in validation (won't accept anything that isn't a number) and just a touch of animation that gives the page a more dynamic, app-like feel. The new Guessing Game looks like a relative of Google Inbox, very fresh and 2015.

My Guessing Game is hosted at GitHub Pages, so try your hand at guessing the number and see how you like the look with MDL! You can also view the repository and the changes made during the migration to MDL at its GitHub repo.

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How to make Google's Animated Fab Button with Material Design Lite.

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