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Get Out The Balloons: Smashing’s 1st Anniversary

September 3rd, 2007 in Events | 124 Comments

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Smashing Magazine is one year old. Over the last year our little weblog has gone through quite a development. We’ve published 126 articles, trying to address the most important issues, trends and developments related to web design and web-development. We’ve heard a lot of criticism, but we’ve also received a lot of support. In fact, there is nothing more valuable than constructive criticism which is basically the only thing which makes our content better, our magazine more useful and our efforts more convenient. Therefore we’d like to thank to all readers who’ve been reading us, sharing their ideas and suggestions, spreading the word and supporting us. Every e-mail you’ve sent to us has an incredible value for us.

Thank you! Now it’s time for you to get something back.

What has changed since then?

Over the year we’ve developed our layout, made some important changes to improve the site structure and the quality of content. Our articles have become more structured, our research more profound. However, the main idea behind Smashing Magazine has never changed.

The degree of utility defines the nature of our content. We try to deliver the best possible information about a given topic and present it in the most comprehensive and usable way. Whether we succeed in doing so or not is not our decision, but the decision you are making with every post we publish. We’ll do our best to deliver quality material on regular basis. To do this, we need your support and your input.

We try to smash you with the information that will make your life easier — this is what we’ve been doing for the last 12 months, this is what we’ll do in future to meet your expectations. And this is what we’re going to do this week.

Celebrate with us!

Smashing Magazine One Year Anniversary

Turn on the music, break out the champagne, get out the balloons and whistles, but — more importantly — keep track on what will be happening this week on Smashing Magazine.

World’s leading designers, developers and graphic designers will be celebrating with us. We’ll also have some giveaways for each and every one of you.

Be prepared. This week we’re going to smash you big time. Really.

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  1. 1.

    Ronny-André (September 3rd, 2007, 7:22 pm)

    First! Can’t wait for the upcoming articles :D

  2. 2.

    Jan (September 3rd, 2007, 7:26 pm)

    Congratulations! Keep up the great work!!

  3. 3.

    Ines (September 3rd, 2007, 7:27 pm)

    Happy Birthday! I love this blog!

  4. 4.

    Simon (September 3rd, 2007, 7:31 pm)

    Congrats on completing the first year guys, always providing relevant, informative copy and links that help us all.

  5. 5.

    Wallpics (September 3rd, 2007, 7:33 pm)

    Congrats.. Smashing Magazine..

  6. 6.

    Rachael (September 3rd, 2007, 7:40 pm)

    Happy Birthday! *dances*

  7. 7.

    Jason A. (September 3rd, 2007, 7:45 pm)

    Excellent! Happy Anniversary! This site is a daily stop for me. Keep up the great work!

  8. 8.

    Henrik Pejer (September 3rd, 2007, 7:45 pm)

    The first year has been amazing: brilliant articles, guides and links.

    I look forward to several more years of Smashing Magazine!

  9. 9.

    Captain-Y-Fronts (September 3rd, 2007, 7:49 pm)

    Happy birthday! Keep it up. Loving what you do…

  10. 10.

    Barry McGee (September 3rd, 2007, 7:55 pm)

    Congratulations, it seems like you have been going longer, yours is my number one RSS feed and you continue to provide great stuff..

    Keep up the good work! :)

  11. 11.

    Sam (September 3rd, 2007, 7:55 pm)

    Happy Anniversary! Reading all the articles… most are really impressive.

  12. 12.

    mika73 (September 3rd, 2007, 7:56 pm)

    Happy birthday! keep on smashing ;-) your magazin rocks

  13. 13.

    hossein mazidi (September 3rd, 2007, 7:56 pm)

    Congratulations! I love this blog. i will try popular smashing in persian blogsphere.

  14. 14.

    Seeidol (September 3rd, 2007, 8:01 pm)

    Congratulations! I’m glad to know you on your one years birthday. :)

  15. 15.

    Shankar Ganesh (September 3rd, 2007, 8:02 pm)

    Congratulations, guys! Keep posting us great stuff. Love you all :)

    Again, Smashing Magazine rocks!

  16. 16.

    Bughy (September 3rd, 2007, 8:04 pm)

    Keep up the good work !

  17. 17.

    thomas (September 3rd, 2007, 8:05 pm)

    Congratulations. Smashing Magazine is certainly one of the most interesting online magazine.

  18. 18.

    mistafab (September 3rd, 2007, 8:09 pm)

    joyeux anniversaire !

  19. 19.

    Adriaan (September 3rd, 2007, 8:13 pm)

    Congrats! Big fan of the site :)

  20. 20.

    Camilo (September 3rd, 2007, 8:23 pm)

    Congratulations!

    Great site.

  21. 21.

    Will (September 3rd, 2007, 8:24 pm)

    Great work guys - i love reading your articles and will continue to do so. I get some great ideas and learn so much from this site. Keep up the good work and I will keep coming back! Will

  22. 22.

    Oli (September 3rd, 2007, 8:24 pm)

    Congratulations!!!

  23. 23.

    Tommy Holiday (September 3rd, 2007, 8:26 pm)

    happy brithday ;)

  24. 24.

    -@^@- (September 3rd, 2007, 8:27 pm)

    Happy birthday, Smashing Magazine - here’s to the next twelve months of great content!

  25. 25.

    Bernard (September 3rd, 2007, 8:27 pm)

    joyeux anniversaire !! continuez !!!

  26. 26.

    Razvan (September 3rd, 2007, 8:28 pm)

    Congrats and keep up the good work!

  27. 27.

    Daniel (September 3rd, 2007, 8:29 pm)

    Congrats!, It has always been a great read, and resource…

    has given me immeasurable inspiration over the months…

  28. 28.

    Richie (September 3rd, 2007, 8:35 pm)

    Congrats!
    SM is one of my favorite weblogs over the net,well done guys!

  29. 29.

    Gordon (September 3rd, 2007, 8:39 pm)

    Congratulations. And please don’t change the scope of what you cover, I’ve found many excellent resources and looking forward to see what you have up your sleeves this week.

  30. 30.

    Mario Schmidt (September 3rd, 2007, 8:52 pm)

    Smashing :)

    Keep up the good work!

  31. 31.

    Rick (September 3rd, 2007, 8:56 pm)

    Sounds good and Happy Anniversary!

  32. 32.

    add (September 3rd, 2007, 9:07 pm)

    “La multi ani” ;)

  33. 33.

    Marijean (September 3rd, 2007, 9:19 pm)

    This is my favorite blog and I read a lot of blogs. Don’t change anything!
    Congratulations on one year of great articles and information. A truly important resource.

    Thanks!

  34. 34.

    Jan (September 3rd, 2007, 9:22 pm)

    Congrats! ;)

  35. 35.

    Sam R (September 3rd, 2007, 9:31 pm)

    Well done !!!
    For a few month now, smashingmagazine has become one of my first reading every morning to see if there is anothernew good article…

    Thanks and happy birthday.

  36. 36.

    randy (September 3rd, 2007, 9:38 pm)

    hate to be a wet blanket here…but the lower case y glyph in that “one year anniversary” graphic looks really off heh…anyways happy anniversary!

  37. 37.

    Miharbi (September 3rd, 2007, 10:10 pm)

    Congrats. This is the most informative and entertaining websites I have ever seen. I stumbled upon it accidentally (thank god for that). And ever since then, I have been a faithful follower of this great and amazing website. I look forward for the new year. And once again, happy anniversary!

  38. 38.

    Juan Ortega (September 3rd, 2007, 10:13 pm)

    Parabens para voce

    Felicidades

    Keep up the good work!

  39. 39.

    A.P.Palaniraja (September 3rd, 2007, 10:30 pm)

    congrats!

    Happy birthday, Thanks for your articles and keep the same in the future
    :-)

  40. 40.

    foodforcows (September 3rd, 2007, 10:33 pm)

    Congrats people, you helped me a lot in the previous year. It was a pleasure read your feed and stuff… Hopefully this lasts for at least another year ;)

  41. 41.

    Daniel Holter (September 3rd, 2007, 10:33 pm)

    The level to which I dig what you guys do is not the least bit artificially inflated due to your post that included our music licensing site. Really. Promise. :)

    We’ve been avid readers ever since discovering you. Always killer info. Big Time Congrats to you guys and we wish you much success going forward!!

  42. 42.

    Anita (September 3rd, 2007, 10:40 pm)

    Congrats! Found this blog a few months ago and have since been a faithful reader!
    Keep up the great work!

  43. 43.

    shery (September 3rd, 2007, 10:43 pm)

    Congratulations guys :)

  44. 44.

    Jeroen (September 3rd, 2007, 10:51 pm)

    congratulations from The Netherlands….Keep up this nice project!

  45. 45.

    David J. (September 3rd, 2007, 10:56 pm)

    Good evening Sven!

    I do wish you the happiest of 1st anniversaries. I tried e-mailing you to ship you a quick note (office & advertising) and both bounced.

    You may want to fix that :)

  46. 46.

    petrosini (September 3rd, 2007, 11:07 pm)

    Felicitaciones!
    Feliz Aniversario!

  47. 47.

    Zul Azman (September 3rd, 2007, 11:11 pm)

    Congratulations guys!! Keep up the good work!!

  48. 48.

    Daid J. (September 3rd, 2007, 11:11 pm)

    Vitaly,

    Nope, still no-go. I’ll stick to comments for now :)

  49. 49.

    Mjuboy (September 3rd, 2007, 11:16 pm)

    Happy first anniversary!!

    Hope to see you in the following years too!

  50. 50.

    xirika (September 3rd, 2007, 11:16 pm)

    zorionak eta urte askotarako! lan ona iten ari zeate ta!!

  51. 51.

    Luis (September 3rd, 2007, 11:17 pm)

    Congratulations!!!
    I’ve ony discovered this great site a few weeks ago, and it has become one of my main resources since then. Keep up the GREAT work and here’s to many years more.

    Felicidades!!!!
    He descubierto este sitio tan solo hace unas cuantas semanas, y en ese tiempo se ha convertido en una de mis fuentes de inspiracion principales. Sigan con su EXCELENTE trabajo y espero que sigan por muchos años mas.

  52. 52.

    pablo (September 3rd, 2007, 11:19 pm)

    congrats
    keep bringin inspiration

  53. 53.

    Marcelo Barbosa (September 3rd, 2007, 11:23 pm)

    congratulations from The Rio de Janeiro,Brazil !!!!
    Keep up the good work!

  54. 54.

    Kumar (September 3rd, 2007, 11:27 pm)

    Very good site
    You are in my inspirations category
    Awaiting more cool posts.

  55. 55.

    Roberto (September 3rd, 2007, 11:32 pm)

    Parabéns galera do site!!!!!!
    Vocês estão fazendo um belo trabalho.

  56. 56.

    uncle wilco (September 3rd, 2007, 11:44 pm)

    Well done, you are my 5th read of the day……

  57. 57.

    Gabriel (September 3rd, 2007, 11:48 pm)

    Congratulations !!!
    The best articles I aways find here. You guys helped so much.
    Keep up the good work.

  58. 58.

    hanifan (September 4th, 2007, 12:19 am)

    happy birthday..and make a wish…

  59. 59.

    Lauro (September 4th, 2007, 12:28 am)

    Congratulations!!!
    Thanks for this year
    Regards from Brazil

  60. 60.

    Felipe Kaufmann (September 4th, 2007, 12:28 am)

    Congratulations! Keep on going like this and I will keep on reading you daily ;-)

  61. 61.

    Łukasz (September 4th, 2007, 12:31 am)

    Congratulations ! I wish you get 10th too. Good work !

  62. 62.

    Fausto Pacheco (September 4th, 2007, 12:33 am)

    Happy birthday, Happy birthday

    Mr. President.

  63. 63.

    Starfeeder (September 4th, 2007, 12:35 am)

    congrats!

    :) more articles!!! w00t!

  64. 64.

    yichi (September 4th, 2007, 12:38 am)

    Congrats…Happy birthday!

  65. 65.

    cainzer0 (September 4th, 2007, 12:38 am)

    Buen trabajo, feliz aniversario, me han servido de inspiración y ayuda a mi y a muchos por sus geniales artículos sigan así y muchos años más

    Saludos

  66. 66.

    Gonzalo (September 4th, 2007, 1:10 am)

    Congratulations! I love your articles! :)

  67. 67.

    lizard (September 4th, 2007, 1:16 am)

    congratulations and thanks for being such a great resource. love your lists!

  68. 68.

    Fritsie (September 4th, 2007, 1:18 am)

    Smashing! This site is awesome. Simple as that!

    Congrats on the anniversary!!!

  69. 69.

    blau (September 4th, 2007, 1:22 am)

    Congratulation Smashing Magazine :D
    great web site, i read it every day :)

  70. 70.

    simple (September 4th, 2007, 1:25 am)

    you make my life easier. really.

    cheers guys :]

  71. 71.

    Dario (September 4th, 2007, 1:47 am)

    Wooo hooo!
    party!

    Congrats!!!!!!

  72. 72.

    Donald Giannatti (September 4th, 2007, 1:57 am)

    Happy Anniversary guys… one of the best on the web.
    Now the hard part… doing better than you already have.
    wow… good luck with that!!!!

    Cheers… and thanks for all your hard and well appreciated work!

    Don

  73. 73.

    Jarek (September 4th, 2007, 1:59 am)

    Congratz!
    you’ve done really nice job so far. I hope that smashing mag will be larger and larger! Gratz!

  74. 74.

    Kuswanto (September 4th, 2007, 2:02 am)

    happy anniversary. i really enjoying to read all of your posts, good job and please make more super super nice reference for designer.

  75. 75.

    Peter Franzén (September 4th, 2007, 2:32 am)

    Thanks for an awsome job and helping me out in my daily work! If not for smashingmagazine we would have the most boring website on the web :)

  76. 76.

    Faz (September 4th, 2007, 2:43 am)

    congratulations, loving the articles, much appreciated. keep it coming!

  77. 77.

    Sylf (September 4th, 2007, 3:17 am)

    Happy anniversary! Congrats on your milestone. I always love your articles. Keep up with your good work! (And “good work” is an understatement of the week… they’re excellent in contents, broad in topics, and very interesting every time!)

  78. 78.

    Romain (September 4th, 2007, 3:46 am)

    Happy anniversary, congratulations !!!!
    thanks for all ….

    Keep going !!!!!!!!!!!

  79. 79.

    Forum Nacional (September 4th, 2007, 3:53 am)

    Happy Birthday!
    :P

  80. 80.

    Yunus Tunak (September 4th, 2007, 4:31 am)

    Congrats and thanks for consistent dedication.
    Keep up the good work..

    My morning coffee start page :)

  81. 81.

    skyran (September 4th, 2007, 5:27 am)

    Congrats! You’re one of the most useful weblogs about design I’ve found over the Internet.

    I’m looking forward for more articles!!

  82. 82.

    Lica (September 4th, 2007, 10:15 am)

    Congrats!!!
    Can’t wait for to see what you guys come up with this year!!

  83. 83.

    Jermayn Parker (September 4th, 2007, 10:35 am)

    Congratulations people. Its always an enjoyable time reading your posts

  84. 84.

    Eduardo Costa (September 4th, 2007, 10:49 am)

    Congratulations! Your articles are very useful. Keep working!

    From a reader here in Brazil.

  85. 85.

    ankur c (September 4th, 2007, 10:52 am)

    congrats for 1st Anniversery !
    Good work guys . keep it up

  86. 86.

    jiangxiaolei (September 4th, 2007, 11:20 am)

    Happy Birthday!

  87. 87.

    kpjothivelu(chennai-India) (September 4th, 2007, 12:37 pm)

    Congratulations! Keep up the great work!!
    I don’t miss “U”, my entire career…
    God bless you!!!

  88. 88.

    (O_o) nickpan (September 4th, 2007, 2:17 pm)

    The only blog that i don’t want to miss even 1 entry.

  89. 89.

    Narek Khachatryan (September 4th, 2007, 2:25 pm)

    Congratulations! Have been reading your web site for a while–it is definitely one of the most comprehensive and useful web sites with up to date information for web designers/developers. Keep up the great work.

  90. 90.

    Robert Marbun (September 4th, 2007, 2:51 pm)

    i welcome you one year old cute baby

  91. 91.

    Dan Kalivoda (September 4th, 2007, 2:57 pm)

    Guys, well done..I really enjoy staing here…I hope you will be here for us forever:) Thank you so much.

  92. 92.

    AL (September 4th, 2007, 3:41 pm)

    Congrats!
    And Happy Anniversary!

  93. 93.

    David (September 4th, 2007, 4:24 pm)

    Congrats Smashing!

    SM is my most precious RSS feed, and I feverishly wait for every update. An absolute goldmine. Well done :)

  94. 94.

    GregOne (September 4th, 2007, 4:32 pm)

    Happy birthday Smashing Magazine, and thanks for all those great articles. Can’t even imagine what a reference you might be a few years from now !

  95. 95.

    Amrit Gill (September 4th, 2007, 5:07 pm)

    Fantasic work guys, have been looking for a decent magazine since create online went!

    Love what your doing, keep it going!!

    Amrit

    Link [www.humanprocess.co.uk]

  96. 96.

    Prasanth (September 4th, 2007, 5:36 pm)

    Happy birthday to you Smashing Magazine! Really. You have smashed me with your content!

    Yes. I am ready to get smashed this week too!

  97. 97.

    Igor Jovic (September 4th, 2007, 5:56 pm)

    Fantastic work and **** HAPPY BIRTHDAY ***

  98. 98.

    Georgi (September 4th, 2007, 5:56 pm)

    H h h h h hhhaaapy Birthday!!!! and a 999999999999 more years!!

  99. 99.

    Per André (September 4th, 2007, 6:15 pm)

    Congrats, you guys are great!

  100. 100.

    Asvin Balloo (September 4th, 2007, 6:34 pm)

    Congrats for this 1 year, and keep on the good work!!

  101. 101.

    arjun (September 4th, 2007, 7:01 pm)

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY SMASHING MAGAZINE

  102. 102.

    kb (September 4th, 2007, 7:29 pm)

    happy birthday!!! one of the best resource sites ever!!!

  103. 103.

    Balachandar (September 4th, 2007, 8:28 pm)

    Happy Birthday Guys. Keep up the good work.

  104. 104.

    mrpicky (September 4th, 2007, 9:11 pm)

    Just wanted to offer a tiny suggestion: change “champaign” to “champagne”.

  105. 105.

    Andres Cortes (September 4th, 2007, 9:34 pm)

    Thank You SM!!! for being my first wasting time place to come!!! seriously YOU ROCK!!!

  106. 106.

    Andy (September 4th, 2007, 11:51 pm)

    Congratulations guys! Your content is consistently well done and extremely useful. Here’s to another year!

  107. 107.

    James (September 5th, 2007, 4:46 am)

    Happy Birthday Smashing Magazine :)

  108. 108.

    Himanshu Kapoor (September 5th, 2007, 6:26 pm)

    Happy Birthday. WISH YOU LONG LIFE.

  109. 109.

    Gerd Wippich (September 5th, 2007, 6:42 pm)

    Great blog! Happy birthday!

  110. 110.

    gr8pixel (September 5th, 2007, 10:06 pm)

    Hey Congratulations guys!! Happy Smashing Anniversary!! :)

  111. 111.

    Bogdan (September 6th, 2007, 2:13 am)

    I enjoyed every article until now. Thank you and Happy Birthday

  112. 112.

    Steve (September 9th, 2007, 2:58 pm)

    Smashing!

    Keep up the good work…

  113. 113.

    phantom (September 11th, 2007, 3:02 am)

    Happy birthday Smashing Magazine!!!! This blog is extremely useful for me! С днем рождения!

  114. 114.

    ego (September 15th, 2007, 3:21 am)

    Happy birthday Smashing!!

  115. 115.

    Edgar Eduardo (September 30th, 2007, 4:47 am)

    Mis mas sinceras Congratulaciones por su aniversario… !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Un saludo desde El Perú. y gracias por la fuente Anivers esta muy bonita.
    Salu2

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