As we move into March, it’s time to highlight the latest tools and resources that web designers and developers will find helpful. This month’s roundup includes fresh web applications, jQuery plugins, JavaScript utilities, must-have productivity and project management apps, revolutionary new fonts, and much more.
Most of these resources are free or very cost-effective, promising great utility for designers and developers alike.
If you think we’ve missed an important tool, let us know in the comments. To submit an app or resource for next month’s edition, you can reach out to @cameron_chapman on Twitter.
New and Noteworthy: Foundation 4
Foundation 4 brings a slew of improvements to Zurb’s popular responsive framework including a mobile-first approach, cleaner semantic code, and a switch to Zepto for JavaScript plugins.
Baseline.js Maintains Your Vertical Flow
Deal with odd image sizes without breaking your typographic baseline using Baseline.js, an essential tool for consistency across articles and pages.
Mailstrom: A Tornado for Your Inbox
Mailstrom is designed to quickly sweep through your inbox, allowing you to control the chaos with a currently free unlimited trial (subscription service will follow).
Do: Team Project Management Simplified
Streamline your team’s productivity using Do, a project management app with accompanying mobile apps for iPhone and Android.
Control Your Cloud with ownCloud.org
ownCloud.org offers a self-hosted solution for files, music, photos, contacts, and calendars, ensuring you have full control over your data.
Typographic Fine-Tuning: Typeplate
With Typeplate, enhance your web typography with a starter kit that emphasizes proper markup and extendable styles for varied typographic patterns.
Browse with Confidence: Browserhacks
Browserhacks compiles an extensive database of CSS and JavaScript browser-specific hacks from around the web.
Galleria: Your Go-To Image Gallery Framework
Create visually stunning galleries for web and mobile with Galleria, a feature-rich JavaScript image gallery framework.
Adobe Edge Reflow for Visual Responsive Design
Design responsively with visual aids using Adobe’s preview app, Adobe Edge Reflow, which allows you to craft high fidelity CSS styles intuitively.
Interactive Web Content Made Easy with Adobe Edge Animate
Adobe Edge Animate brings the power of animation to your web content with a familiar timeline editor for interactive designs.
Koken: A CMS Tailored for Creatives
Koken offers creatives a CMS solution with an intuitive, desktop-like interface for managing diverse content types, from text to multimedia.
Put Your Photos in Order with PicDigest
Compose a daily email digest of your Facebook and Instagram photos using PicDigest, perfect for sharing with friends and family.
Show and Tell with Prevue
Prevue offers an elegant, free solution for presenting concepts online and gathering client feedback, all under the cover of password protection.
Keep Tabs on Your Feeds with Feedly
Feedly keeps you connected to your favorite web contents with an easy-to-use browser and mobile feed reader.
Preload Images with Imageloader.js
Elevate your website’s visual experience with Imageloader.js, a jQuery plugin for graceful image preloading.
Simplify Your Online Life with Alternion
Alternion brings together email and social media into a single streamlined portal, connecting you to a multitude of platforms.
Create Beautiful Forms with Typeform
Design engaging and flexible web forms that function beautifully across devices without writing any code with Typeform.
Instant Code Search with Voke
Search PHP and CSS with real-time results using Voke, a blazingly fast search tool for code.
TypeUp: Your Compass for Vertical Baselines
Transform specified font sizes and line lengths into CSS rules for a vertical baseline using TypeUp, a Compass extension catering to em-based designs.
Ui Kit: Pristine PSD UI Elements
Enhance your project’s aesthetics with Ui Kit, a collection of beautiful and clean PSD UI components.
jQuery Nested: For a Seamless Grid Layout
With jQuery Nested, create an impeccable multi-column grid with no gaps, adaptable to various screen sizes and devices.
MFG Labs Icon Set: Embrace Scalable Symbolism
MFG Labs icon set delivers a plethora of icons via a webfont and CSS, ideal for a wide range of design applications.
Hook.js: Bring Pull to Refresh to Websites
Implement “pull to refresh” functionality on your website using Hook.js, giving your site a native mobile app feel.
Predictive Features with PredictionIO
Build predictive capabilities like personalization, content discovery, and recommendations in your apps with the open source engine PredictionIO.
SVG.js: Manipulate SVG with Ease
Animate and control SVG files with SVG.js, a nimble library for rich SVG manipulation and animation.
Spoiler Alert: Keep Secrets on Your Site
Spoiler Alert creatively conceals spoilers or sensitive content, revealing them only upon user interaction.
Design Custom Paper with Paperkit
Create and download personalized graph paper templates with Paperkit, specifying everything from page size to color and grid spacing.
Sell Digitally with Gumroad
Directly sell your digital products online with Gumroad, managing hosting, payment, and delivery seamlessly and securely.
Coffitivity: Coffeehouse Sounds Boost Productivity
Immerse in the productive ambience of a coffeeshop with Coffitivity, which provides ambient coffeehouse audio to blend with your music.
Avatars for Your Designs: User Inter Faces
Customize avatars for your designs using User Inter Faces, an easy design tool for avatar samples.
Diverse Fonts Galore
Discover fonts such as Hello Denver, a free stencil-like typeface; Pettit, with elegant display qualities; or Ollie and other paid fonts that can add a unique character to your design projects.
More Creative Font Offerings
Explore labels and tags with confidence using Handy Labels. Check out Prism, inspired by pioneer designs, or go for the lively Soundtrack for all-caps flair.
