Founded in September 2006, Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers. Our aim is to inform our readers about the latest trends and techniques in Web development. We try to convince you not with the quantity but with the quality of the information we present. We hope that makes us different. Smashing Magazine is, and always has been, independent.

Perhaps the most remarkable yet overlooked aspect of the design community is its friendly, enthusiastic spirit. Every day, literally thousands of talented, hard-working folks out there gain new insight from their work, come up with brilliant ideas and then share their experience with fellows designers.

Nourished by the gratitude of its benefactors and powered by the reach of social networking, this community has produces a wide variety of high-quality articles, resources and tools, available to everybody. Every single contribution supports the entire community, and the community supports these contributors with traffic and word-of-mouth advertising: the networking effect at its best.

Twitter icons by Gopal Raju, released by Smashing Magazine in January 2009.

Interesting Numbers

• 114,000: comments and trackbacks as of May 2009
• 46.3: average number of days our readers spent on our website (from January to May 2009)
• 659: articles, plus 22 pages
• 36,500: pictures published
• 700: tags used
• 12: categories assigned
• 7: servers running this website
• 2.4: average number of actions of each visitor per visit

Credits

Smashing Magazine thanks Sean Hodge and Mark Bloomfield (our first external authors), Elena Gafita, Jos Buivenga, James White, Frederick Townes; our regular authors Steven Snell, Jacob Gube, Vailancio Rodrigues, Jean-Baptiste Jung, Chris Coyier, Noura Yehia, Aquil Akhter, Danny Outlaw, Paul Boag, Chris Spooner, Dmitry Fadeyev, Cameron Chapman, Glen Stansberry and Matt Cronin; and, finally, the readers of Smashing Magazine.

These celebrated RSS icons were created by Dirceu Veiga of Brazil and first published on Smashing Magazine in April 2008.

Who Produces This Fantastic Resource?

A company is behind this magazine: it’s called Smashing Media GmbH. Our primary business is this magazine.

Andrew Lobo		His company, Edit Owl, has taken care of our proofreading since November 2008.
Michael Dobler		Through his own company, Commindo, he does all advertising for this website.
Ursula Schwientek		She works in our office and does paperwork.
Rene Schmidt		As a freelancer, he maintains our server and does a lot of scripting and programming.
Vitaly Friedman		Founder and editor-in-chief.
Sven Lennartz		Founder. Runs the business.

More Statistics

Smashing Magazine’s traffic has grown constantly for years. We now get more than 4 million visitors per month. The chart below shows page-view stats as measured by the fabulous stats service GetClicky (yes, we pay for it). The timeframe shown is from June 2008 to April 2009.

We also have more than 110,000 readers of our (self-hosted) RSS feed and more than 37,000 followers on Twitter.

Our most popular stories of 2009 so far have been:

• Web Design Trends For 2009
• Adobe Photoshop Tutorials: Best Of
• 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes
• (Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers
• 40+ Excellent Free Fonts For Professional Design

Greatest story ever:

• 53 CSS Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without

Biggest failure:

• The Smashing Magazine Comic Strip
  Gosh!

Most commented:

• Hardware Giveaway: 5,000 Comments Challenge!
  The 8999 comments killed our WordPress CMS.

Our magazine has been in especially high demand in certain cities. Greetings to London, Toronto, New York, Paris, Los Angeles, Sydney, Singapore, Milano, Chicago, Moscow, Madrid, Istanbul, Sao Paulo, Warsaw, Berlin, Bangkok, Bucharest, Melbourne, Tokyo, Montreal, San Francisco, Barcelona, Seoul, Seattle, Jakarta, Buenos Aires, Mexico, Bangalore, Atlanta, Austin, Bombay.

The exclusive printed Smashing Anniversary poster was designed by the well-known talented artist James White.

A Smashing Time Line

Advertise On Smashing Magazine

We offer some attractive ad spots. Please send a brief email to Michael Dobler. We’ll be in touch shortly. Please note that we would never publish information about paid content or write reviews about you, the advertiser, or your products unless we found them to be useful to Web developers. The articles published on Smashing Magazine are objective; the quality of each article is defined by the extent of its utility to our readers. We respect our readers and protect their interests. This is the main principle of our work.

Contact Us

• You can contact us via the form. We read through each and every email we receive, and we try to answer every email. However, it’s not possible to answer them all.
• You can also use our postal address:
  Smashing Media GmbH
  Fleischhauerstr. 47
  23552 Luebeck
  Germany
• Handelsregister HRB 9041 HL

Sponsors

Special thanks go to our ad partners:

• WooThemes (premium WordPress themes)
• sitegrinder (Photoshop design converter)
• PSD to HTML (you design, we XHTML/CSS)
• Fotolia (social marketplace for royalty-free stock images)
• GraphicDesignTeam (print/graphic design templates)
• W3 MARKUP: PSD to HTML (CSS and software implementation of your designs)
• Techsmith (share video, share anything)
• Techsmith Morae (usability testing for software and websites)
• Techsmith Camtasia Studio (Train. Present. Persuade.)
• Flash Design Software (creating a stunning website is insanely easy)
• activeCollab (project management and collaboration tool)
• Mosso (the hosting cloud)

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