This is our web design and web development news series where we share our favorite design/development related articles, resources, tutorials and awesome freebies.

NEW DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES AND TOOLS

Mobile App Development CSS Framework – Ratchet

Build mobile apps with simple HTML‚ CSS‚ and JS components.

Boombox.js – HTML5 Sound Library

Browser sound library which blended HTMLVideo and HTMLAudio and WebAudio.

Free Font Generator for Mac – FontPrep

FontPrep takes your TTF and OTF font files and generates all of the respective font-formats for the web: WOFF, EOT, and SVG. Each converted web-font is automagically bundled with industry standard @font-face declarations so that you can easily plop ‘em into your working styles.

Responsive Social Sharing Buttons

Love them or hate them social sharing buttons appear to be with us for a while. It seemed like we were constantly making custom buttons for every single project, so we decided to create a super flexible system that would work in any container.

RRSSB is built with SASS, so you can easily customize it by tweaking a few variables. SVGs allow for tiny file size and retina support. Add or remove icons as you see fit — the rest will fill in automagically in the container.

List Nearby Places using Google Maps – WhatsNearby

WhatsNearby is a jQuery plugin to list and show nearby places around a certain position using Google Maps.

jQuery Plugin for Image Cropping – Croppic

Croppic is an image cropping jQuery plugin that will satisfy your needs and much more.

FREE TEMPLATES AND THEMES

Free Responsive HTML5 Theme for Travel Agency

Free HTML Template

Free PSD – One Chat Full iOS Application Design

DESIGN FREEBIES

Stackicons

Stackicons are icon fonts for the web, designed to do more — with multiple button shapes and a unique “multi-color” option. The Stackicons-Social font and Sass-based construction kit are free and open source, created by Parker Bennett.

The Icons: 100 Free Icons

The Icons is a set of 100 icons specifically designed to look symbolic at small sizes, including pictograms that can be used in any kind of project.

Wasteland Free Font

Wasteland is a completely free to use, both commercially and personal, post apocalyptic, hand drawn brush typeface.