Building responsive web designs and writing Sass is something I feel very confident with. However, wandering through API documentations and coding jquery are much more problematic.
Yet, yesterday, I found this cool article on Caption Hover effects, by Mary Lou of Codrops, and thought about a wee challenge.
API Connection
How about taking this beautiful set of hover effects one step further by connecting it to the Dribbble API in order to dynamically display my last dribbble shots, their titles, and their respective number of Likes.
Getting into APIs looks very intimidating at first. But you quickly realize most of them work the same way, and are tremendously documented.
Side note: I could have easily gone with the Twitter API but since I have already covered a bit of the subject in my post on the retirement of API v1.0, and since I don’t own a Facebook account (check out Graph API if you do need it), the Dribbble API (coupled with this post) looked the best option to me this pm.
Ok, so the Dribbble API docs can be found