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Yesterday we described who we are, and today it’s your turn to tell us your story. Looking back at where we’ve come from and where we are today, we see that one principle has not changed a bit over the years, and it is one of the core elements of our work: that is, we’ll go as far as it takes to deliver value and substance to you, our dear reader.

Smashing Cat has already got into the party mood.
We’re celebrating our sixth anniversary. Apparently, the Smashing Cat has already got into the party mood.

We measure success not by traffic and not by the number of advertising spots sold, but by the amount of value an article provides you with. And to measure that, we quantify the attention an article receives and the overall feedback it gets in comments, blog posts and social channels. We listen to you, and we listen carefully. Our team reads through each and every email and tweet sent to us, and we also double-check comments that get marked as “spam” and approve the legitimate ones. Every meaningful comment contributes to the discussion and helps us further improve the quality of our content. And that’s a huge deal for us.

Leave A Comment!

But with such rigorous standards and high expectations, failing is very easy. Therefore, it’s crucial for us to learn how Smashing Magazine has helped you over the years, what you like and dislike and what you’d like to be different in future.

And since the greatness of a birthday party depends on how much the guests are into it, we kindly ask you to share your feedback, thoughts and ideas in the comments section. Where do you live? How well recognized is Smashing Magazine in your area and among the people you know? How has Smashing Magazine helped you in your career? What has been the most memorable article for you? Which author drives you nuts most often? What do you miss in Smashing Magazine? Whether you feel like replying to all of these questions or just to one, we are genuinely interested in hearing what’s on your mind, and we look forward to reading your answers:

The Prizes

Among all the commenters, we’ll raffle 30 sets of exclusive poster prints. Each set contains six prints of some of the best entries from our “Redesign the Web, Redesign the World” poster competition. The prints are limited editions and were printed especially for this giveaway. They would definitely look nice on your office or studio wall!

Redesign The Web - Redesign The World Poster Prints
Some of the best entries in the “Redesign the Web, Redesign the World” poster competition.

The Anniversary Schedule

As promised, we have prepared limited-edition prizes and special Smashing Book discounts. Please keep in mind that the event only runs for a limited time span (starting at midnight CET).

September 7 (Friday, tomorrow): 30% anniversary discount for printed books
Our print books are our editorial flagships. Well-respected experts in the industry contribute to our Smashing Books, delivering best practices and innovative techniques to the community. If you don’t have one yet, you should definitely not let this special pass you by. Get a 30% anniversary discount on all printed Smashing books for 48 hours, e.g.

This is a chance to add to your reference library or to surprise a colleague or your department with a great set of Smashing Books.

30% on all printed books

Special eBook Discounts

Be sure to keep up to date via the Smashing Newsletter as well.

We sincerely appreciate your time and support, and we look very much forward to your feedback!

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The Smashing Editorial loves high-quality content and cares about little details. We also believe that content and design are crafts worth sharpening.

  1. 1

    Happy birthday!
    Thank you for all the great tutorials and of course for the great smashing books!

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    Happy Bday SmashMag! Every single details of Smashing Magazine inspiring me. When I need a bit of creativity boost and not in the mood in reading articles, I randomly picked any Smashing Magazine archive and start from there. The pictures, the colors, the hue, the font, the gradient, the curve, the lines…sort of offer me a starting creative point. In the future I hope Smashing Magazine feature more rich multimedia contents and more tutorials(short or lengthy doesnt matter-both graphic and web dev) for webdevNdesign newbie like me.

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    Happy BirhDay Smashing Magazines !

    Four year i’am here, thank’s a lot for all.

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    Smashing Magazine has been a part of my digital life since 2008, you guys are awesome! Happy 6th Birthday, Looking good!

    P.S.

    I wanna win, I wanna win, I wanna win…

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    happy birthday!!

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    Wooo happy bday guys! :)

    I’ve followed the website for the past year or so. I think your articles are great and really really helpful. I’m just a hobbyist and your articles are still easy to read and understandable.

    Also love your monthly wallpapers! I think it’s great you showcase so many different designers across the web.

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    Happy Anniversary Smashing Magazine, Thank you for bringing us knowledge.

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    Veronica Cattaneo

    September 6th, 2012 11:05 am

    Hey happy birthday!

    I am writing form Italy and both me and my boyfriend are following you since long time!
    I am mostly interested in web design, social media and SEO ’cause it’s my business.
    Thank you for the giveaway BTW

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    Happy anniversary Smash Mag!

    I’m a Technical Analyst from London, UK and I was recommended this site by a work mate a few years ago when I decided to delve into the world of web development. I started to frequently read the articles on this site and I gradually gained valuable information on development concepts, key points to keep in mind when developing efficiently and various ways to improve my work. I now check this site every day without fail!

    At first I was a beginner but now I consider myself proficient in coding; I believe this site was one of the main reasons I am now a professional in the development field. I have progressed from creating basic HTML/CSS sites for individuals to project managing and coding for larger corporate sites and CMS systems.

    I always recommend this site to anyone looking to get into coding and design and will continue to support the awareness of this site when I can.

    Once again happy anniversary!

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    Happy B’day SmashingMagazine. Would like to say thank you so much. You are GOOGLE in the web and mobile world. Cheers!! to it and keep posting the amazing stuff..

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    6 years! :) You have done well in these 6 years. Wishing smashing mag a smashing time ahead! Happy Birthday!
    I come here for sound advice on WordPress, some quick tips – its always refreshing to surf through smashing magazine. And ofcourse we all like the freebies.
    What could be improved – maybe smashing mag can have hangouts some time so the smashing mag fans can pick up some tips here and there.
    I am from Kashmir running a small graphic design studio – and smashing does provide inspiration indeed!

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    Happy birthday and thank you for all the great work you put into great tutorials and articles. And of course for the great books, loved every single one =) Please keep up the good work .

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    Happy B’day SM. You are one of my inspiration and favorite. Looking forward to see more info, inspiration and useful articles along the way when you get older ;).

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    Abhilash Ramadasan

    September 6th, 2012 11:17 am

    Congratulation Smashing magazine for completing your “6″ Successful years.
    Regards to smashing cat :) Would like to meet him someday :)

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    Every day, first thing in the morning, I am heading to your site looking forward to get new stuff to read and view. You enable us to be always on the front in terms of technology and design. Especially your galleries are an inspiring source. Even for the time I am offline, you provide your books.
    You definitely make the web a better place! Keep your quality!

    One negative issue: you shut down the smashing network news feed. :-( That feed was awesome and made it quasi impossible to miss anything in terms of web design.

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    Happy Birthday Smashing Magazine !
    I have been following you guys almost daily, as a daily read with my morning cup of coffee.
    The thing i like about this place is probably not the daily update’s and articles,
    but the discussion that some articles tend to create between fellow webmasters and designers. Very usefull!

    I would say, keep up the good work!

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    Happy birthday and thank you for all the great work you put into your tutorials and articles. And of course for the great books, love them!

    I’m an art student from germany, so this site is quite popular within my university. We often use interesting articles and tutorials to upgrade our work, so very helpfull so far – please keep up the good work ;)

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    Smashing magazine was introduced to me during an internship while I was still at university. Since then it’s been my go-to for web tips, typography oggling and vectors. In my current job (an ecommerce graphic designer in London), there is a running joke between my old line manager and I – when I first started I had loads of interesting web design chat, and he would always ask me where I had read these things and how I knew all these random bits. I would reply “oh it was an article on a design blog – I don’t know if you’ve heard of it, it’s called smashing magazine”. After that introduction, he became an avid reader and would start telling me all of the interesting articles he had read, always finishing with “I don’t know if you’ve heard of it, it’s called smashing magazine”. Even now he’s left, he still emails me about articles he’s read here, asking if I’ve heard of the ‘little known’ blog called smashing magazine.

    Anyway – happy birthday! Thanks for all the tips, anf for keeping me in the loop.

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    Webdesign is a tough job, exploring all the cool stuff you do, without the chance to step further here in germany because people here are slow. Smashing Magazine has set standards for me since I started my carreer. Thank you so much for this!

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    Lukas Hillebrand

    September 6th, 2012 11:29 am

    Yes – happy birthday Smashing Magazine! Thanks to help me learn about the web and improve my skills throughout all the years. Cheers!

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    Just a quick thanks for all the great work you put here day in and day out.

    Keep on!

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    HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
    You learnt me such amazing things through each of you posts!
    Just an amazing source!!

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    Happy Birthday!

    As a web design student, SM has been a great source of information! All the articles are fresh and inspiring. The whole site adds perfectly to the material I get taught in school and allows me to expand my knowlegde.
    My carreer is only just beginning and I hope SM will be there until the very end of it!

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    Love the SmashingMagazine website – great tutorials and information. And the books are also really cool – and more importantly correctly priced!! Would really love those posters!

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    Oh dear! We already wished you a happy birthday yesterday on Twitter, but Smashing Magazine is such a muse and essential resource for our work that we have to wish you all the best one more time. Not just a year older, but a year better. Keep up great work! (Yeah, we want poster!)

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    kathy kyle bonomini

    September 6th, 2012 11:41 am

    i am confident i can count on you and your team to help with expert advice, inspiration, and insight. thank you and felicidades!

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    Great tutorials and interesting reads that keep me up to speed with the forever changing web. And you always have the best free to use fonts. Thank you Smashing Magazine, you are truly awesome!

    Happy Birthday!

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    Happy Birthday Smashing Magazine!

    Thanks for all the great advice and resources that have helped to develop my skills and become a better web designer/developer :-)

    Please keep the great content coming!

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    Happy Birthday Smashing Mag.

    You helped me through a lot of problems and I also won a AppsWorld 2012 ticket :)

    Your awesome :)

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    Happy birthday Smashing Magazine !

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    Hazzar for Smashing Magazine and congratulations on your sixth birthday. I applaud the success of your fine work! I know that I, and many others in the fields of design and development, would have much harder working lives without your daily doses of fantastic technical and inspirational wizardry!

    Thanks for helping my career out! And one more thing…may I please have a poster?

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    happy birthday!!!! i read you everyday, and your books are so useful. thank you for sharing your knowledge with us, i’m learning and enjoying a lot!

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    Firstly happy birthday! in South africa you would be in your first school year…which is relevant because I have been designing for almost more than a year and smashingmag has been my main go-to site to learn everything webby. When I see that orange bird in my twitter timeline I go from coding mode to reading mode. Thank you for all the great content and for expanding my knowledge.

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    Happy BIithday, SmahingMag!

    When will be the next MeetUp in your office!? :)

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    Herzlichen Glückwunch SM!!!

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    Happy Birthday ! Thx for all the amazing work!

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    Happy Birthday <3 from Moldova, republic of.

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    Monica Messaggi Kaya

    September 6th, 2012 11:59 am

    Happy Birthday Smashing Magazine!
    I’m a designer/developer – tough combination sometimes (it is not always easy to do both properly!) and your articles kept my sanity in check! I really like the technical stories and software/tools tips and tricks. But I have to say that some of my favourite ones are about Inspiration and how to let the “creative juices” flowing and instigate innovation. The latest post “Changing Perspective: A New Look At Old Problems” reached me in a moment of need! And so many other posts that helped me to either improve production or the creativity in my work. Many thanks for that and please continue writing great posts!!! :)

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    Happy Birthday! Zum Geburtstag! С днем рождения! Joyeux anniversaire! ハッピーバースデートゥーユー

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    Hi! Happy birthday Smashing magazine! I follow you always, and I learned a lot from you! You are a reference point in the web. Thanks of all!

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    Happy Birthday SmashingMag!

    A truely big round of applause for insightful articles, useful commentary, a high frequency of posts and a wide variety of content. Please please please keep the opinionated articles coming, they inspire us all to comment and give our own opinions.

    One thing I’d love to see get a little more attention is any “friends of smashing” you have. My favourite thing about the web dev blog industry is the cross linking, I love to move from one site to another picking up the latest and greatest articles, tutorials and opinions.

    Great job – keep it all coming.

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    Happy Birthday Mr/Ms Smashing! ~ As sung by Marilyn Monroe!!

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    smashing magazine is my first web magazine because of its awesome content
    happy birthday Smashing magazine
    and special Thx to Smashing Team.

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    Happy Birthday and thanks for the interesting articles you post!

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    Happy birthday my Freiburg friends!
    Hope to see you grow and get better and better everyday!

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    Smashing Magazine has changed my life

    After leaving school in 1999 I was left with a choice. Apply for college or go out to work? As the economy was booming at the time and it was so easy to walk into a job i decided to start working and skip college. I got my first job in mechanics which I did not like, however I stayed at it for four years before moving on and joining the building trade. The next six years were spent working on building sites in the cold weather doing a job I also hated. Then the recession hit and things just couldn’t get any worse. No job, no skills and what seemed like no future. Then one day I found a site called smashingmagazine.com it felt like a weight had been lifted from my shoulders and a path had been set for me in my life. I suddenly started to think positive about my future and I am now half way through studying for a degree in computer science (distance learning) and working as a web developer.

    That is cutting a long story short of how the discovery of smashing magazine changed my life. I wake up happy, love going to work and love life. Find a job you enjoy and you will never work a day in your life. Never thought that was possible before, but now I know it is.

    If I had never stumbled across smashing magazine I would probably never have found the path I was supposed to take. Thank You.

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    After five years of studying at the university, I was ready to take on the world (and a job). While domination has not been achieved, buta job has been landed and it was so very far away from what my Masters degree was in.

    One day, a co-worker said to me I should look at Smashing Magazine and suddenly I started to “get” what my job was about. I started to appreciate all the little details on web design, and design overall, and started to get a better understanding of what I could do, and should do, when working with clients and making everything better.

    So while Smashing hasn’t been in my world for more then a year, it’s been a year of redefining myself and what I see as the internet, and how it is built. I’ve started to understand more and see more, and Smashing has proven a daily source of insight and new ideas that I can bring with me to discuss at work or at home with my girlfriend. It’s made my life much more awesome, and thats really pretty cool. It also makes it really easy to say happy birthday, and thanks for (probably) keeping me employed

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    Smashing Magazine did not help me become a better designer/developer/etc.. It’s true … it didn’t. Should they be blamed for this fact? Maybe…

    Now you’re wondering why i am bringing a critical point of view into discussion on the day SM celebrates its birthday. I am doing it because it is a correct point of view.

    The truth is the one stated in the first paragraph but with a little salt and pepper to be added.

    The salt and pepper states that SM did not help me become a better designer/developer but it did help me understand why i am working in this business, why we all create designs and code back-end interfaces which is, in my opinion, the true purpose of this website. The articles reach the deepest questions (about web tips, typos, vectors, layouts, responsive media etc.) you have about how you can become a creative mind and answers them in a way anyone can understand.

    That made me a better individual who, now, can look at the world with a different view!

    Thank you Smashing Magazine (+ all the staffz0rs) and have a happy birthday!

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    Happy Birthday to you, the SmashingMag Team!

    I’ve been one of your passionate readers for 3 years now, adore everything – your books, website design, newsletter. I’ve been a content manager, a copywriter, and an advertising manager, so I do love your content style, and yes get inspired a lot by it!

    I’m from Minsk, Belarus, and can tell you that we have lots of Web and Digital companies, agencies, and studios, who keep an eye on everything you do. Hey, you are kind of trend-setters – so keep up the great work ;)

    That’s such a miracle I once found your website, googling for some content ideas. You are truly awesome, thanks for being with us all this time!

    Cheers
    Iness

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    Smashing Mag is invaluable to me; I use it to both be inspired by the work of others and also to keep up with everything that’s going on in the web design and development world. My favourite article recently has been the one on the Art of Staying Up to Date– something that Smashing Magazine helps me to do on a daily basis. I work as a graphic, UX, and web designer, and it’s awesome to have a place to go that has insightful articles and resources for everything. It can be overwhelming in the web world to keep up with everything that’s going on, so thanks for being so discerning and thoughtful in your writing– it’s saved me countless headaches. Thank you and happy birthday!

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    Marie Hogebrandt

    September 6th, 2012 12:56 pm

    Happy Birthday (belatedly – I ended up staring blankly at the screen after I came home last night rather than checking out SM)!

    I live in Sweden, and after graduating (bachelor in computer science) I ended up getting a job as a developer. We use WordPress a lot when it comes to developing for clients, and I can’t count the times I’ve ended up finding one of your articles when I needed something. Outside of that… none of my designs use faux bold/faux italic. I have implemented functionality to handle “smart quotes” in pretty much everything I do. All of these, I’ve gotten inspiration and knowledge from SM.

    My absolute favourite article? http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/15/mind-your-en-and-em-dashes-typographic-etiquette/

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    Happy birthday smashing mag!

    I’m pretty much a newbie into UX and webdesign so the Smashing books are being really of help for me. Definitely what I love the most is that authors give real examples of existing sites and designs allowing that way to really get the whole idea. I study design at university and practical example is exactly what most of my lectures are missing so you get a golden star on that matter.

    Keep going. Up, up and away

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    Happy Birthday! Thanks for all the hard work in delivering the best content out there. You guys are amazing.

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    Happy B’day and thanks for those awesome share and goodies. I learn something new everyday here :) Keep up the great work!

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  55. 55

    Happy Birthday Smashing Magazine!

    Looking back, I never went to an IT school(I was studying music) but here I am now working at one of the best Dutch IT companies!
    How? I remember I was really curious about coding but couldn’t find any good sources 5 years ago, then I came across Smashing and I always use your articles as reference since…

    I would not get the good source without you guys… I would prolly started the basic in a wrong direction, or just wasted so much energy filtering articles like a maniac.. so Thank you so much, I really appreciate every article you’ve been publishing!

    PS: Oh yea, super cool that you have an Indonesian in your team! made me smile when I read it :-)

    hug,
    I. Setiawan

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    Happy birthday! The articles you guys post has been invaluable to me since the beginning. Thank you!

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    Happy birthday! I’ve been reading your articles for years. Your articles have made a big difference in how I develop and design websites. I remember when I suggested an article on Fireworks several years ago. Vitaly responded personally and in a few weeks, a Fireworks article was published on Smashing Magazine. I was delighted! Wishing you another six great years.

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    Well, this is the school I “went to”, and where I learned the basics of web design. I still have much to learn, but here I am boasting about being a web designer, and all that is thanks to your good written articles, funny comics and handy tips.

    Thank you guys, and happy birthday!

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    First of all I’d like to say happy birthday to you guys! It’s really great when we have beautiful and fantastic sites like these up and running for so long.

    Articles about typography and print design are the ones that I really enjoy. I can’t think of a particular one but I love them all! I just think there’s something fascinating about print. Some things I’d love to see are reviews on different products. I’m not sure if this has already been done but I haven’t seen one in a while.

    The only other thing would be to get articles published more quickly but after reading your article about the Smashing team’s ways I see that you have a very good reason for publishing slowly!

    To wrap it up I’d like to say thank you for the giveaway and I hope everything is great for your website moving forward.

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    Happy Birthday! Smashing is a big hit in our office here in Ohio! You guys are great for fostering inspiration.

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    Hey Smashing!
    I’ve followed this website since 25 April 2012. I recommended by a webagency here where i live in Stockholm, Sweden. Since the i’ve visited your website everyday i can which probably is everyday.
    I love reading about what’s developing in the web and being able to be in the frontlines and learn about what responsive design in, what’s new with CSS3 and how to adabt to retina screens.
    I must admit that i don’t usually look at the authors of the articles but i like most of what i read so i guess you are doing a good job!
    Keep it up and i’ll follow you into the end of the web!

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    Love it :)
    I think you played a part in me getting my current job as I used you as a reference point of design inspiration and technical posts which my interviewer and director also held you guys in high esteem.

    Cheers for being pro’s.

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    Congratulations and of course, a very, very, sweet, creative and fine Happy Birthday!!
    Time flies for both of us. For Smashing Magazine, publisher of great and helpful content for the web society and far beyond that, it must have been six crazy years, a blast from day one until today.
    For me, as a web designer and fan since 2008, many joy and brain development because of Smashing Magazine. Each time great, new content to look forward to.

    Since I consider myself young enough to look forward for the next 60 years, I hope Smashing Magazine will at least be part of those next 60!

    Good luck and keep it up!

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    Six years ago I was really happy when Smashing Magazine started. In our country there is not much opportunities to study web & design and Smashing Magazine is for a long time our no. one source of daily reading. We love your books and work! Happy birthday, may this day always be a special one to remember.

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    Massimo BEMAGIKEY Roncalli

    September 6th, 2012 1:49 pm

    Happy Birthday!
    Top di Gamma (TdiG). slang from italy ,traslate : range the top.

    bye

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    sandeep parkhande

    September 6th, 2012 1:49 pm

    Happy Birthday Smashing Magazine!

    My day starts with your article and ends with archives which I missed. I’ve been reading your articles for last 4 years. Your articles are always inspiring to me. Wishing you upcoming great years.

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    Happy Birthday Smashing Mag!

    I’ve been a web developer for 2 years now for a company in Liverpool, England and I was introduced to SM when I started by my lead developer. i check this site every day and I love the articles focused around mobile and responsive web design and development. SM keeps me up to date with the latest in the business to keep me at the top of my game and continue my learning. Thank you so much guys :)

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    Congrats!

    Ej peeps from smashing magazine just want to say it’s just worth it to read the articles about webdesign. There just so decent and well-written.

    Thanks to all of you,
    Regards from Bruges, Belgium

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    Happy Smashing Birthday!

    I’ve been reading you since 2007, and I gotta thank you veryvery much as I learned a lot of basic stuff for my freelancer job. And keep on with your newsletter, that’s always more than useful!

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    Happy Birthday!
    Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!
    Eid milaad saeed! or Kul sana wa inta/i tayeb/a!
    Sretan Rodendan!
    Joyeux Anniversaire!
    Eytyxismena Genethlia! or Chronia Pola!
    Boldog szuletesnapot! or Isten eltessen!
    Buon Compleanno!
    Vill Gleck fir daei Geburtsdaag!
    Sreken roden den!
    Selamat Hari Jadi!

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    Happy Birthday Smashing! This site has been a great help as I’ve started my career in Graphic Design. Graduating from school this past spring and starting my first job, this has been a resource I use over and over again. Great ideas, new ways of thinking, and helpful articles. Thanks for all you guys do!

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    hey!! Happy Birthday!!!

    I’m From Argentina, and I check SM every morning!!

    best!!

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    Happy Birthday from London Smashing Magazine.

    Your magazine has inspired me and thus made me a better designer! (I hope)

    Thanks

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  74. 75

    Happy Birthday, Smashing Magazine.

    While I haven’t been around your site for more than a couple of years, I have always appreciated the resources that you put out to the community that are both practical and accessible. I wish you the best going forward, and hope to see even more great content in the future.

    Thanks again,

    Joe

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    Wow, 6 years! Congrats! I have been following you guys for 3 years now and you have literally helped me start my freelance business from the ground up. I have learned so many different things and used so many of your useful tools to get me started. I live in a small town in VA where web design/development is still a niche market. With your amazing articles and tools, you have helped me establish a business and be able to obtain clients in an area that previously had no appreciation for quality design. I owe the success of my company to you guys…almost entirely!

    Thank you so much! I love you guys! =) Smashing Mag \m/ ‘s!

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    Happy birthday from Argentina. You have been in my feeds for a couple of years…

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    Happy Anniversary! Thanks for making sure my mornings start out the right way. This is the first site that I go to in the morning and wouldn’t change a thing.

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    Happy Birthday!

    Your great publications and articles have inspired me to further my education on web design and development! Although I am only a Junior in high school, I really feel your articles have made a difference in how I design websites. I’d like to thank all the writes who have made this magazine enjoyable to read and truly smashing.

    :)

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    Happy Birthday Smashing Magazine.. My hearty wishes and prayers to the team…

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    Happy Birthday!!! There are a lot of excellent blogs about the web out there, but you’re my one and only true love :D
    I read Smashing Magazine since 2007 and there are still sentences, or pieces of articles, that resonate in my mind while designing or coding.
    Thanks to you I learnt to have a solid basis for my job, and learnt things that I wouldn’t have had otherwise.
    Thank you for all this years of awesomeness and please, stay right where you are forever! The web needs you.

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    Happy birthday from Tennessee, USA.

    I enjoy the articles talking about best practices and those discussing design. What I miss the most is the free resources, such as icons which were a useful resource.

    Thanks for all you do!

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    Ryan Baillargeon

    September 6th, 2012 2:50 pm

    I already said all the mushy stuff in yesterday’s thread, so I won’t repeat myself except to say one more time: Happy Anniversary.

    I have a special place on my wall for a permanent monument to my admiration with your work.

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    I ♥ SMASHING MAGAZINE
    Happy B-day

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    Smashing Magazine is well known by the design students at Kent State University! It is a great resource for design news and its always fun to see what the new desktop wallpapers are for each month! I love all the posted material for topics that I want to know more about such as wordpress and I know I can rely on the information posted here! Happy Anniversary!

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    Smashing Book #1 changed my web design for ever. I improved 100% after finishing that little book and I’ve never looked at websites in the same way again. When ever we get an intern or work experience student in the office I tell them to look at smashing mag to learn from the best.

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    Congrats SmashingMagazine!

    I am currently undertaking bachelor degree education in Web Development, and part of the previous semesters curriculum was a text called “How to make design sell”. After reading it, i found it to be quite interesting, so i asked my teacher where he got it from. He pulled out a very worn Smashing Book #1 and handed it to me. After flipping through it, it instantly cought my attention. I went home and started to do some research, and not long after i placed an order for book #1 and #2 and ebook versions for my kindle (later pre-ordered #3 as soon as it was available).
    Of all the years i have went to school, this was the first time in my life i bought books used in school for my own personal use. And boy am i happy i did! For one like me, who is originally an educated programmer, design is not my forte in the slightest so these have really helped me, and quickly brought me up to speed at my workplace, where no-one else knows about smashing magazine and the newest trends.
    Of all my web development related books, the smashing books receives the most usage, as they helped me greatly grow as a web developer.

    Congratulations again and here’s for six more years!

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    Parabéns!

    Thank you for all the amazing content that you guys have been publishing.

    S2

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    de Figueiredo Hugo

    September 6th, 2012 3:06 pm

    Happy Birthday Smashing Magazine !

    Without you, you would not be in the job I am right now ! Everytime I need to take a break to read something …. what do you think I do ? …

    I press one “Fav Button” on my browser ! … YOURS !

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    Happy Birthday Smashing Magazine. Love and wishes to ur team.

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    6 years already?! Thanks for always having something that always catches my attention! Happy Birthday!

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    Happy Birthday, Smashing!

    I entered the web development arena around the same time that Smashing was launched, and it’s now my go-to magazine for expert opinions on the web design and programming. I find that after a hot cup of coffee (sometimes before) Smashing Magazine is normally the first thing I do when I get to work in the morning.

    Since entering this field six years ago, I’ve lived in four different US States and three countries, including Germany (unfortunately I was not able to make pilgrimage to Freiburg), but unlike print periodicals, Smashing’s always been there with me. Thanks for all your amazing work!

    Happy six years, and happy sixty more.

    P.S. I’ll have those posters gladly…

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    Happy Birthday-and keep up the good work!

    Thanks for the informative article on your workflow process and thinking–it’s good to see how others manage, and what can be adapted to improve our own processes. Not surprised that your team comes from such an ecclectic background–the cultural differences normally spark interesting interactions. Hope you continue to have many more years of informative writing on the Web and design in general…

    Bis dann–
    Veilleicht wenn ich wieder auf Familienbesuch in Hessen bin kann ich euch auch treffen!

    And, I’ll glady take a poster!

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    Happy birthday Smashing Magazine!

    I discovered Smashing Magazine back in ’09 thru one of my panel members for my undergraduate thesis. I appreciate the great articles not only for the geek part of web design but the real life aspect of it as well. The articles are well presented and relevant to the the needs of an aspiring dabbler from some obscure corner of the world. Ever since, the site is on my bookmarks and will stay there. In celebration of your 6th year, let me extend my heartfelt thanks to everybody who made things possible for us to come back for our daily dose of SmashingMagazine.

    And who says that we can’t have too much of a good thing? Already looking forward to another good year and more to come from you guys. Cheers from the Philippines!

    P.S. I will get my hands on those books very soon…

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    Great work! Those posters look awesome! You guys really share and create the best content out there!

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    Happy birthday !!

    I’m following you from Bordeaux, France since 2 years and I love what you do!

    You’re my inspiration when I when I’m at an impasse or more simply, you make me discover some useful technical that always save my time.

    I’m not a professionnal, I do websites for my entourage and I learn always something when I come on your website.

    Thank you for all you do!

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    Happy Anniversary Smashing Mag! As an entry graphic designer dipping her toes into web design I couldn’t ask for a better tool to guide and improve my work. As I’m starting out at my first job I google design questions a lot, and more often than not, I end up seeing an article from SmashMag in the results- which is always a sign I have found an answer. Your tutorials, articles, and more have the senior IT guys looking up to me! Thank you!

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    I first want to say happy birthday and that I have been visiting your site for quit a few years now. I currently live in the Washington DC metropolitan area and I am just finishing up school at the Art Institue of Washington. I was really excited when I saw your first book come out because I was a great promoter of your articles (and still am). I was so excited that I pre ordered the book. Receiving the book was a pain though. I understand that you guys had to switch some things up and had to push back the date because of the publishing issues that you had. I wasn’t upset about that. At first I was upset about the customer service that I received when I asked about the status of the book, but now looking back I realize it was probably because of the high demand/ high stress of your first launch. So I accept that. I read through the teaser e-book that was sent out before I got the book and was telling everyone to go get it. When I received my book I was so excited. I started reading and found some great things in there that I didn’t know and was glad to share them with other people around me. After getting about half way through the book started to fall apart. That upset me because I was scared to let people barrow it. I felt, at the time, frustrated because of the fact that A) I had to wait a while (out of your control) B)I received poor customer service and C) poor quality of the book. Because of this I havent purchased anymore of your books. But like I said I still visit the site daily and still love reading the articles and I have downloaded some of your free e-books from your site. So I guess the feeling I’m left with is slit. I have great respect for the site and the articles and all of your writers but not so much for the hard publishing side of things. This isn’t a rant, just some feedback and I’m sure things have changed for the better. I’m just stubborn.

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    Happy birthday!
    Thanks for all of the Smashing Books. It’s one of my favourite books out there. It’s nice to touch and great to read.

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    Love those posters! I want one!!

    Happy birthday and keep the good work!

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    My dear Smashing Magazine

    You have guided me from the first day at my first digital agency, having moved from a ATL ad background. You have lifted me up to the position of Creative Services Director at a UX design agency. You have even chosen my entry to the Redesign The Web poster competition as a ‘selected entry’. You have taught me so much, and yet you ask for so little.

    Eternally grateful and forever yours
    Marcus Marritt

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    Happy Birthday Smashing Magazine!

    A little about myself – I went to college in 2001 and graduated in 03 from the only web developer program at the time offered in Ontario, Canada. I’ve been a full time, self-employed web developer for the past 7 years and the biggest thing I’ve had to overcome has been breaking away from old tendencies (such as the table design model) and moving forward with the latest trends.

    It’s not an easy task for anyone to keep up with the latest design techniques, let alone someone who is a jack-of-all-trades. Not only am I responsible for the entire development of all projects but I also have to communicate with a couple of dozen clients each day through phone calls & emails. There’s simply not enough time in a day to shift through the hundreds of web articles, e-books or publications on a weekly basis to keep up to date and that’s where Smashing Magazine fills that void for me.

    I think I can speak for everyone by saying we very much appreciate all of your time & effort you do to give us the most relevant & necessary articles each day (which, not to mention are completely free!). I purchased the newest book for a nightly read and even though it took a couple months to ship here, those minor faults are easily overlooked when you have saved so much time for me in the long run.

    Reading through this site is part of my morning ritual, with my cup of coffee at 8:30AM and I know the same is true to several of my colleagues & friends. I wouldn’t want it any other way!

    Cheers from Canada

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    ================~~===============
    | |
    | HAPPY BIRTHDAY SM |
    | |
    | ** YOU ** |
    | ** really ** |
    | ** changed ** |
    | ** MY ** |
    | ** life ** |
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    | |
    ===============~~================

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    Oh dear! We already wished you a happy birthday yesterday on Twitter, but Smashing Magazine is such a muse and essential resource for our work that we have to wish you all the best one more time. Not just a year older, but a year better. Keep up great work! (Yeah, we want poster!)

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    Smashing Magazine has changed my life

    After leaving school in 1999 I was left with a choice. Apply for college or go out to work? As the economy was booming at the time and it was so easy to walk into a job i decided to start working and skip college. I got my first job in mechanics which I did not like, however I stayed at it for four years before moving on and joining the building trade. The next six years were spent working on building sites in the cold weather doing a job I also hated. Then the recession hit and things just couldn’t get any worse. No job, no skills and what seemed like no future. Then one day I found a site called smashingmagazine.com it felt like a weight had been lifted from my shoulders and a path had been set for me in my life. I suddenly started to think positive about my future and I am now half way through studying for a degree in computer science (distance learning) and working as a web developer.

    That is cutting a long story short of how the discovery of smashing magazine changed my life. I wake up happy, love going to work and love life. Find a job you enjoy and you will never work a day in your life. Never thought that was possible before, but now I know it is.

    If I had never stumbled across smashing magazine I would probably never have found the path I was supposed to take. Thank You.

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    Six years ago I was really happy when Smashing Magazine started. In our country there is not much opportunities to study web & design and Smashing Magazine is for a long time our no. one source of daily reading. We love your books and work! Happy birthday, may this day always be a special one to remember.

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    Happy Birthday Smashing Mag!

    I seriously can’t thank you enough. Being a post-graduate of a small town community college, I need all the inspiration to design I can get my hands on. You guys give me what I come here for. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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    GIVE ME A POSTER AHHHHHHHHHHH

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    Happy birthday!
    Thank you for all the great tutorials and of course for the great smashing books!

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    Happy Bday SmashMag! Every single details of Smashing Magazine inspiring me. When I need a bit of creativity boost and not in the mood in reading articles, I randomly picked any Smashing Magazine archive and start from there. The pictures, the colors, the hue, the font, the gradient, the curve, the lines…sort of offer me a starting creative point. In the future I hope Smashing Magazine feature more rich multimedia contents and more tutorials(short or lengthy doesnt matter-both graphic and web dev) for webdevNdesign newbie like me.

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    Veronica Cattaneo

    September 6th, 2012 11:05 am

    Hey happy birthday!

    I am writing form Italy and both me and my boyfriend are following you since long time!
    I am mostly interested in web design, social media and SEO ’cause it’s my business.
    Thank you for the giveaway BTW

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    Happy B’day SmashingMagazine. Would like to say thank you so much. You are GOOGLE in the web and mobile world. Cheers!! to it and keep posting the amazing stuff..

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    Smashing magazine was introduced to me during an internship while I was still at university. Since then it’s been my go-to for web tips, typography oggling and vectors. In my current job (an ecommerce graphic designer in London), there is a running joke between my old line manager and I – when I first started I had loads of interesting web design chat, and he would always ask me where I had read these things and how I knew all these random bits. I would reply “oh it was an article on a design blog – I don’t know if you’ve heard of it, it’s called smashing magazine”. After that introduction, he became an avid reader and would start telling me all of the interesting articles he had read, always finishing with “I don’t know if you’ve heard of it, it’s called smashing magazine”. Even now he’s left, he still emails me about articles he’s read here, asking if I’ve heard of the ‘little known’ blog called smashing magazine.

    Anyway – happy birthday! Thanks for all the tips, anf for keeping me in the loop.

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    Happy Birthday to you, the SmashingMag Team!

    I’ve been one of your passionate readers for 3 years now, adore everything – your books, website design, newsletter. I’ve been a content manager, a copywriter, and an advertising manager, so I do love your content style, and yes get inspired a lot by it!

    I’m from Minsk, Belarus, and can tell you that we have lots of Web and Digital companies, agencies, and studios, who keep an eye on everything you do. Hey, you are kind of trend-setters – so keep up the great work ;)

    That’s such a miracle I once found your website, googling for some content ideas. You are truly awesome, thanks for being with us all this time!

    Cheers
    Iness

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    Love those posters! I want one!!

    Happy birthday and keep the good work!

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    Happy Birthday!! Your books on wordpress and css have been a life saver. They also have been a great reference along with popping in here to learn little bits and follow tutorials to keep my skills polished and up to date! Yay Smashing! :)

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    Happy Birthday! you are one of the best websites on the Internet, I read your articles and find the inspiration for my works! thank you for everything SM and staff!

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    Happy B-day!

    I have enjoyed Smashing Magazine for several years. It helped me develop and refine my skills from college to my first job to my current transition to freelancing in the mult-media world.

    While the articles and tutorials are extremely helpful and will continue to read and enjoy them, I LOVE the free wallpapers. Every Month I check in and see what the wonderful designers have cooked up for my screen.

    You Rock!

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    Happy Birthday! Your site is awesome! Thanks for all the tutorials, showcases, articles and free wallpapers.

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    Happy Birthday Smashing.

    I’m from Ohio & went to Bowling Green State University. Among us Visual Communication Technology students Smashing Magazine was very well known as an inspirational and educational resource.

    Even professors of our field would mention Smashing Mag as a useful tool.

    Now graduated and still working in Ohio, around the office everyone loves Smashing Magazine as much as me & everyone loves the useful articles from Smashing that teach, inspire, help & so much more.

    For me, this site is an at-least-once-daily stop.

    “What’s new? What can I learn today?”

    Congrats on 6 years and thanks, Smashing.

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    Hi There.

    Maciej here, from beautiful city of Chicago. Reading SM for a few years, you guys are awesome, and I want to thank you for all that neat articles and books you provide to web professionals.

    Cheers.
    BTW. My birthday is in September too. ;)

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    Andrew Richardson

    September 6th, 2012 6:14 pm

    Hey Smashing,

    I’m a front end web designer working both a full time job for a software company and freelancing on the side.

    I love the consistency of your updates. It’s nice to hear a voice from the industry every day even if it’s not always relevant to me. I’m really interested in case studies of how other designers are working. Being the only web designer at my company I don’t get a lot of collaboration between other designers so it’s very refreshing when I get to see it on here. It helps me fill in the gaps of inefficiency, lets me know what tools and practices are being used and how other designers communicate.

    Thanks!

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    Happy Smashing BDay! I’ve recently graduated college and have only been following SM for almost exactly a year now, but you better believe I read AT LEAST one article a day.

    Graduating as a Web Application Development major, I enjoy the Coding section the most but have recently started gaining interest in WordPress as well.

    Like @TR, I am planning to start freelancing on the side within the upcoming year while continuing my wonderful job here in Chicago. Who knows where I’ll end up in the future!? Either way, I do know that Smashing Magazine has provided me with some unique inspiration every single day. You guys are the best!

    Everyone from my Web App Dev major at Illinois State University were avid followers of your online magazine! I would be proud to represent you all at my office with one of your beautiful posters :)

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    hi .. it feels a little coincidence that I saw your related tweet, because I will soon have my birthday ;) it feels a bit impressive too, inside, because I started working in 2006, in a web developers company, a small business, in an attractive team, young enthusiasts, the site was a cozy home while surrounded by the atmosphere of a college town and everyone had a headset :D for concentration to the limit ;) and we had a crazy soft friend, who at one time, with a camera in his beak, jumped with a homemade parachute from our balcony.. it was our plush green frog! ;) (so a frog as a teddy bear, don’t know the english word for it :s) so .. I was touched by your story, because it was / is for me, a good time, a good memory, worth celebrating, and the enthusiasts of that time, were some of your early readers : ) it’s great that you keep that atmosphere going, cherish it!

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    Happy Birthday SM!

    I live in Reunion Island (Indian Ocean – France), and SM seems well known for everyone interested in Web design or programming. The most memorable article for me was the article of Alma Hoffmann – “I draw pictures all day” (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/08/03/i-draw-pictures-all-day/).

    Keep rocking SM!

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    Good learning contents and inspirations found on Smashing Magazine and up to the latest. Thanks!

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    Smashing magazine was my first webdesign related site that I added to my bookmark. Introduced by the guy whose job I took over( he wasnt fired, he took a better job). He said if you want to do anything fancy to a website or learn stuff go to this website and that website was “smashingmagazine.com”. I learned a lot since then…Thank you.

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    Well, now that I know you pay author for the article, how do I submit an article?

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    Congrats on your continued success these past six years — up and to the right for the next six as well! –

    Coming to you from Seattle, WA — where I’m pretty sure there are more Smashing readers than Starbucks locations; a rare feat.

    Best wishes

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    I think the beautiful thing about Smashing Magazine is that it’s like a good girlfriend. It makes us laugh sometimes when we’re stressed, it looks great and gets better with age, and it supports us in our tireless efforts to innovate, work hard and grow as individuals.

    I’d propose but the Mrs. would never understand.

    Happy Birthday!

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    Happy birthday SM!

    I am from New Mexico , I used to be application developer in C# and due to the demands I had to learn webdevelopment and I have found SM to be a great Just-In-Time resource which lets you grasp things within minutes. I really learnt a lot of things be it CSS or HTML5/PHP. Hoping you celebrate similar success in future. You guys rock!! m/

    (I subscribe you guys in twitter, which is how I gotta know about your B’day! ;))

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