Smashing Magazine ~ we smash you with the information that will make your life easier. really.
Smashing Magazine we smash you with the information that will make your life easier. really.

About Us

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.

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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.

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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 andrew His company, Edit Owl, has taken care of our proofreading since November 2008.
Michael Dobler 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 schmidt As a freelancer, he maintains our server and does a lot of scripting and programming.
Vitaly Friedman vitalyf2 Founder and editor-in-chief.
Sven Lennartz svenlennartz 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.

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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:

Greatest story ever:

Biggest failure:

Most commented:

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.

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

A Smashing Time Line

2006 (September) Smashing Magazine goes live
2007 (December) First relaunch done by W3 EDGE
2008 (February) Smashing Jobs starts
2008 (April) User wallpaper series begins
2008 (July) Author Contest is held
2008 (September) Smashing Magazine’s 2nd anniversary party
2009 (March) Smashing Forum is launched
2009 (September) The Smashing Book to be published

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.

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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:

  1. 1.

    Radeksonic (June 3rd, 2009, 12:18 pm)

    8999 comments? I’m not going to load that page again. And it’s true that the comic strip was really boring. Stay Smashing!

  2. 2.

    stu young (June 5th, 2009, 9:01 am)

    I wanted to say I think this is my favorite site on the web by far. Amazing amount of resources, tool and suggestions.

    Question:
    i was wondering if there was any way to alter the pagination, throughout the site to show all? My only issues, if i can even call it that, with the site, is that search results force you to stroll through many many pages.

    Thanks for your consideration,

    Stu

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    # (June 9th, 2009, 1:33 pm)

    I guess that “about us” page is here since ever but never noticed.
    I have only one critic to your magazine: why is the search done through google, when it could be much nicer and effectiver done by your own means?

  4. 4.

    Jacob Gube (June 11th, 2009, 11:56 am)

    You’ve revamped the “About” page with much more Smashing information! I feel like I’ve learned a lot more about Smashing Magazine - great write-up!

  5. 5.

    Frank K. (June 11th, 2009, 1:33 pm)

    Super informative Seite - ABER schade, dass es sie nicht auch in deutsch gibt
    (man(n) bekommt aber halt nicht alles im Leben :-)

  6. 6.

    mary (June 14th, 2009, 2:06 pm)

    What is the address to submit something other than a calendar for publication to give as a freebie? Thank you.

  7. 7.

    Lars (June 17th, 2009, 4:57 am)

    @Frank K.

    Yeah but the most good sites are in english and if you wanna be a good designer and want to be better you should read english articles more than german articles. It’s like learning a programming language. If you don’t want read english papers you will be lost. :P

  8. 8.

    Radeksonic (June 23rd, 2009, 5:49 am)

    The only thing that sucks on SM is that sometimes there come multiple new articles on one day, but sometimes there comes nothing new in 2 or 3 days. But it’s still a great website ;)

  9. 9.

    Smashing Editorial (June 30th, 2009, 9:26 am)

    this about page is quite new. there was an earlier one we’ve deleted.

    @Radeksonic articles are published every day. I don’t remember a 2 or 3 day delay. there might be some exceptions though.

  10. 10.

    Jônatas Couto (July 1st, 2009, 10:38 pm)

    Great work!

    Thanks for every article!

  11. 11.

    Thomas Christensen (July 2nd, 2009, 10:16 pm)

    Really really great site

    One of the top places to go - for inspiration, ideas etc.
    One of my top RSS favorites!

    Compared to many other sites out there - the CONTENT of the articles are very good.

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