Explore Our Resources
We're always building and learning because the best solutions and thinking evolve with time.
Our Lab Projects
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CodePen Redesign Process
All the behind-the-scenes action that went into (and continues to go into) redesigning the CodePen experience.
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Apprenticeship Curriculum
A guide to the Sparkbox apprenticeships. We build responsive, standards-compliant, content-focused, well-crafted, accessible, beautiful web sites and apps—and this curriculum will help you learn to do the same.
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Bouncy Ball
Comparing web animation techniques by showing how to bounce a ball with each one.
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Email Lab
Starter kit for developing HTML emails using modern build tools. Build emails the way you build websites.
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Mina Circle
A Ruby Gem that uses Mina and Cirlce CI to let you to deploy to any server of your choice without the need for a bunch of server dependencies.
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Forte
Create an authorized_keys file for a shared shell account from a repository of public key files.
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mediaCheck
Control JS with media queries with a simple wrapper around matchMedia to run code on entry and exit from media queries.
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mediaQuery Bookmarklet
Determine current page dimensions and current media query in convenient, bookmarklet form.
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Building Seesparkbox.com
Watch how our latest site evolved and see how we got to where we are now.
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Style Prototypes
Style Prototypes can potentially save a lot of hours—and sometimes headaches—in the design process.
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Visual Priority Guide
It's sort of a mobile-sized content prototype wireframe thingy—a single deliverable that provides direction for content-focused design and mobile-first development in something resembling a wireframe.
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Content Priority Guide
It's part content modeling, part stripped-down wireframe, and useful throughout developing a site.
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Collaborative Notes
We've been taking group notes at conferences, workshops, and talks since 2014. Check out all the smarts speakers have shared with us and other attendees.
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Young Adult Web Training
Sparkbox has taught our local Girl Scouts how to build websites during a one-day training for several years—and expanded that to a multi-week training workshop with our local libraries. Start learning or find what you need to do the same.