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Smashing 1st Anniversary Giveaway
On Monday we’ve presented 40+ books for professional design and development. We’ve ordered most of them and are giving them away to our readers. However, if you think that we were planning to celebrate with few excellent books-giveaways, you should think again.
Few weeks ago we’ve chosen some of the useful services we’ve been using or would be happy to use developing a new web-project. We’ve contacted designers and developers and we asked them to celebrate our anniversary with us — giving away some software packages, licenses, accounts and credits. What came out of it is 48 53 presents we are happy to give you away for free – as the appreciation of your trust, your interest and your support over the last year.
How can I participate?
To participate, you have to
- answer the question
“What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear “Smashing Magazine”?”
in the comments to this post (one word is enough),
- choose one item in the list you like most and post the number right after the answer (on the next line).
Please notice that
- participants can post comments until the 13th of September,
- the winners will be determined by chance – among the group of visitors who’d like to have the same present,
- only participants who’ve selected one item listed can participate and
- make sure that you fill your e-mail in the comment field correctly, so we can contact you afterwards.
- German-speaking readers have a special bonus to win – you’ll find it in the end of both table and list.
Below you’ll find the table of all presents you can win by commenting on this article. Below the table you’ll find the list of our sponsors and the full description of our presents.
Giveaways You Can Win
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Thanks to all our sponsors for participation!
Special Prize For Participants
BonusStock Photos:
1×750 + 4×300 High Res Stock Images
All participants have an opportunity to win one of five smashing subscription plans provided by Dreamstime, a powerful community and worldwide leader in stock photography: 1x Large Monthly Subscription (750 High Res Stock Images) and 4x Medium Monthly Subscriptions (300 High Res Stock Images).
Prizes You Can Win: An Overview
1.Web-Development Tool:
1x Coda license
Coda offers a one-window web development for Mac OS X. The tool has a full-featured, built-in file browser and supports FTP, SFTP, FTP+SSL, and WebDAV; you can connect to virtually any file server “on the fly”, edit files remotely, directly, copy, upload, rename.
The editor provide syntax coloring, line numbering, auto completing, block editing, find/replace-management, international support, etc. And if you need to SSH into a server and run some MySQL queries, or restart Apache, or debug some PHP in real time, there’s only one way you’re gonna do it: terminal.
2.Book:
5x Mobile Web Design
by Cameron Moll
A web standards approach for delivering content beyond the desktop. Much has been written about mobile devices. Plenty has been written about developing websites for the so-called “standards era” of the web. However, little has been written about the two colliding. This resource aims to fill that void.
Mobile Web Design is a book for developers who are in a position to develop for, manage, or give advice regarding web strategy for mobile devices.
3.Color Tool:
1x Color Schemer Studio
Color Schemer Studio is a professional color-matching application that will help you build harmonic color schemes quickly and easily.
Bonus: 10% limited-time discount coupon off the price for all Colorschemer products — for Smashing Magazine’s readers.
You can use this tool to explore color using a dynamic visual color wheel, actually see harmony relationships, mix colors, create gradient blends, and even analyze contrast and readability.
4.File Management:
3x Total Commander
Total Commander is a renowned file manager for Windows to copy, move or delete — manage — files. Total Commander can do much more than Windows Explorer, e.g. pack and unpack files, access ftp servers, compare files by content, etc.
5.Editing + File Management:
1x Ultraedit suite license
UltraEdit is the renowned Text, HEX, HTML, PHP, Java, Javascript, Perl, and Programmer’s editor. It’s versatile and easy to use.
UltraCompare Professional is a powerful compare/merge application loaded with features to enable users to track differences between files, directories, Word Documents, and .zip archives! Compare features include text/binary compare of two or three files at a time, merge differences and inline editing.
UltraSentry complements your file management suite. It’s a highly advanced military-grade disk and selected registry cleaner with configurable PC cleaning profiles that can run on demand, as scheduled or upon event to ensure your complete computing privacy & security.
6.Web-Publishing Software:
1x ExpressionEngine
ExpressionEngine is a flexible, feature-rich content management system for professionals and experts. It is modular by design, enabling you to easily add new features and capability with add-on modules, plugins, and extensions. Included by default are 17 add-on modules, access to over 100 plugins, and dozens of extension hooks.
7.Flexible CSS-Editor:
5x CSSEdit
CSSEdit’s intuitive approach to style sheets and powerful previewing features will make you deliver powerful standards-based sites easier and quicker. Instead of merely suggesting a list of predefined keywords, it actually analyses your Style Sheet and behavior to offer smart, context-sensitive suggestions.
Powerful Debugging will let you keep track of your progress in the Milestones interface and make big changes without any risk of losing your work.
8.Mind Mapping Software:
1x OmniGraffle Professional
OmniGraffle is a powerful, yet easy to use diagramming and drawing tool. OmniGraffle can help you make amazing graphic documents quickly by keeping lines connected to shapes even when they’re moved, providing stencils full of common symbols for you to drag and drop, and magically organizing diagrams with just one click. Create flow charts, org charts, network diagrams, family trees, project processes, office layouts – or anything else that can be represented by symbols and lines.
Highlights from OmniGraffle 4 include a new dynamic outline view, diagram styles, a Bezier curve drawing tool, and greatly improved import and export options. OmniGraffle 4 Professional adds master canvases, notes, tables, document scale, improved Visio XML import and export, SVG export, and more.
9.Design Collaboration Tool:
3x ConceptShare year-long accounts
ConceptShare is an optimal web-based idea and design sharing and collaboration tool you can use for virtual workgroups with clients, customers and colleagues. The tool can be used for business card or idenitity design and review, logo design review, interactive and multimedia design, photo retouching and art direction, GUI design, architecture, retail packaging or industrial design.
Advisory or focus groups can use this tool to view advertising concepts and accurately describe any changes, and allow others to see feedback and help select the best concept.
10.Browser-Compatibility:
1x Browsercam annual account
Browsercam lets you get cross-browser screen captures and instant remote access to instantly see your pages in any browser on any operating system.
BrowserCam’s Screen Capture Service lets you submit multiple URL’s, choose the browsers and operating systems you want to see, and in about a minute returns screen captures of your webpage loaded in the different browsers and operating systems you selected.
11.Web 2.0 CMS:
2x pro level annual accounts for Light CMS
Light CMS is a “Web 2.0 CMS for designers” lets you offer a content management system to your clients. Design sites for your clients, upload them to the content management system, and deploy high-quality websites that your clients can manage themselves.
12.Color Tool:
4x Genopal licenses
(1x GenoPal Pro (PC/Mac) license and 3x GenoPal 3.0 (PC/Mac) licenses)
Genopal helps you find harmonic colors, color schemes and color palettes instantly. You can get colors from pictures, drag & drop swatches, park palettes on screen, switch mode for more aggressive saturated colors for highlights, explore color schemes between two colors, create custom palettes and more.
13.Web Analytics Tool:
3x pro annual Clicky accounts
Clicky gives bloggers and smaller web sites a more personal understanding of the visitors. Many analyzers give good summaries, and Clicky is no different – but the similarities stop there. Clicky stands out with its refreshingly clean and simple interface, innovative features like Spy and RSS feeds, and an unrivaled per visitor level of detail. You also get real time stats, outbound link tracking, download tracking, IP tagging, custom data tracking, and more.
14.Web Analytics Tool:
5x Crazy Egg accounts
Crazy Egg supplements your analytics with visuals and actionable data you can use to generate more revenue and target your audience in a more efficient way. The heatmap gives you a clear picture of where people clicked on your site. This tells you what’s hot and what’s not, so you can make change that matter.
You can also find out where people click based upon the things like top 15 referrers, search terms, operating system and browser.
15.Stock flash, audio, video:
4 x 250 FlashDen credits
Flashden offers royalty free stock flash, audio, video and pixel fonts for your projects.
16.Icon sets:
5 x 1 Iconkits icon set
Iconkits design and sell stock icons; there is a free subscription service which regularly givesaways icons that may be used in both personal and commercial projects.
17.Switching Off:
3x Frenzic bundle copies
Frenzic is a fast-paced, addictive game that makes Tetris look like child’s play. For Mac OS X.
Bonus for German-speaking visitors!
18. Book:
1x Praxisbuch Web 2.0
by Vitaly Friedman
The book covers all aspects of Web 2.0. What are the main issues in Web 2.0? What are the new developments? What is the basic foundation for Web 2.0? Praxisbuch Web 2.0 explains what Web 2.0 is and what it means for designers and developers.
This book offers an overview of the latest Web trends, techniques, solutions and methods and is supposed to serve as a quick reference – whether you are interested in web typography, color theory, navigation design, table and lists design, usability, accessibility, web-programming (Ajax, Mashups) or web-publishing (Blogs, Wikis, Podcasting). Many step-by-step tutorials in Adobe Photoshop will help you to understand how Web 2.0 sites are designed and which tools you need to create them. In German.
The team here at Smashing Magazine. Mostly Sven & Vitaly.
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