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 persuade you not with the quantity but with the quality of the information we present. 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 fellow designers.
Our mascot: The Smashing Cat
Nourished by the gratitude of its benefactors and powered by the reach of social networking, this community has produced 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.
Who Produces This Resource?
There is a company behind this magazine: it’s called Smashing Media GmbH. Our primary business is this magazine.
The Smashing family: Vitaly Friedman (founder, editor-in-chief), Sven Lennartz (founder, runs the business), Iris Ljesnjanin (editor), Robin Schulz (Web developer), Thomas Burkert (eBook manager) , Stephan Poppe (editor), Andrew Rogerson (content manager), Ricardo Gimenes (designer and illustrator), Talita Telma (product development), Eugenia Hermann (office manager), Jan Constantin (office assistant), Inge Emmler (support), Christiane Rosenberger (research), Ursula Schwientek (support), Elja Friedman (research).
Send Your Application And Make Our Family Grow
Smashing Media is a young and growing company that publishes articles on various online magazines, but it is also known for producing both electronic and printed books on Web design, Web development and desktop publishing.
If you’re passionate about writing and would like to become a part of our editorial team at Smashing Media, we’d be happy to have you on our team! We’re always looking for dedicated members to join our staff and work with us in the lovely city of Freiburg (in Germany). You’ll need a good command of English (and knowing German wouldn’t hurt either). If you’re interested, please don’t hesitate to send us your resume.
Besides enjoying the beauty of Freiburg, with its medieval city center, lovely vineyards and proximity to the Black Forest, you’ll have France and the Swiss Alps just around the corner. We’re sure you’ll also enjoy the playful and open-minded spirit of the Smashing team members, who like to work as hard as they party. Fridays in the office are fun: we have team meetings with a lot of food and healthy juices for everyone. Fresh-cut flowers and a considerable number of stuffed toy animals accompany the Mac and Windows PCs in our modern office rooms. And despite there being a lot of work, there‘s always time for talk among team members to lighten the load. Come and join in!
A biergarten overlooking the roofs of Freiburg, after rainfall.
Other Websites of Smashing Media
- Noupe: The curious side of Smashing Magazine.
- Smashing Shop: Pass by and check out our books and ebooks
- Dr. Web Magazin: Web design and development in german
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 and Bombay.
The exclusive printed Smashing Anniversary poster was designed by the well-known and talented artist James White.
The fifth anniversary cover for our free eBook was designed by the one and only Ricardo Gimenes.
Smashing Timeline
2006 (September)
Smashing Magazine goes live.
2007 (December)
First relaunch done by W3 EDGE.
2008 (February)
Smashing Jobs launches.
2008 (March)
Desktop Wallpaper Calendar series begins.
2008 (September)
Smashing Magazine’s second anniversary party.
2009 (October)
Noupe is acquired.
2009 (November)
The second relaunch, done by WeFunction.
2009 (November)
The Smashing Network launches.
2009 (December)
The Smashing Book #1 is published.
2010 (February)
Smashing Newsletter starts.
2010 (March)
eBook series starts.
2011 (February)
The Smashing Book #2 is published.
2011 (September)
Smashing Magazine’s 5th anniversary.
2011 (July)
Design Informer is acquired.
2011 (August)
We moved to a new and bigger office.
2012 (January)
Responsive Redesign launches, created by Elliot Jay Stocks, Ben Bodien, Ryan Taylor and the Smashing Team.
Credits
Smashing Magazine thanks all the fans, authors and readers. We wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for you! Thank you, we sincerely appreciate it.
These celebrated RSS icons were created by Dirceu Veiga of Brazil and first published in Smashing Magazine in April 2008.
Advertise on Smashing Magazine
Please note, dear advertiser, that we would never publish paid content or write reviews about you, nor write about your product unless we found it to be useful to Web developers and to our smashing Web community. 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 work to protect their interests. This is the main principle of our work.
We offer some attractive ad spots. Please send a brief email to Michael Dobler; he will contact you as soon as possible.
Contact Us
- You can contact us via this form. We kindly ask you to review our Publishing Policy first.
- You can also use our postal address:
Smashing Media GmbH
Werthmannstr. 15
79098 Freiburg
Germany - Fax: +49 0761 29280566
- Amtsgericht Freiburg: HRB 704836
- USt-IdNr. DE264172548 (value-added Tax Identification Number)
- Persons responsible for the content on the site (Verantwortliche für die Inhalte auf der Seite gemäß TMG): Vitaly Friedman, Sven Lennartz
Sponsors
Special thanks go to our ad partners:
- PSDstation (Photoshop Items)
- TemplateSOLD (Premium Themes & Templates)
- Dreamtemplate (Premium Website Templates)
- iStockphoto, royalty-free stock photos
- fonts.com, 7500+ Web fonts
- MailChimp, email marketing and email list manager
- Veer, makes it easier to be creative
- PSD to HTML, “You design, we XHTML/CSS”
- W3 Markup: PSD to HTML, CSS and software implementation of your designs
- activeCollab, project management and collaboration tool
- Business Catalyst, building successful online businesses
- LightCMS, Build a Website and an Online Store
Updated: February 2012
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We love high-quality content and we care about little details. We believe that good content and design are crafts worth sharpening. Located in the lovely city of Freiburg, Germany. Mostly Vitaly (vf), Iris (il), Stephan (sp) and Sven (sl).
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8999 comments? I’m not going to load that page again. And it’s true that the comic strip was really boring. Stay Smashing!
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I visit this site for years and only now I realize that you are from Freiburg – just around the corner :-) Keep up the good work! Greetings from Stuttgart, Oliver
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Smashing magazine my daily reading online magazine, it is a world of creative resources and learning center for any web designers and developers.
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I love Smashing magazine
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There is no such theme, friend.
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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? -
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i realised only now, reading your about page, that you live in freiburg. the city of my dreams.. awesome!
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I’s been a year and i have been regularly reading smashing mag, a creative block , some leisure time , a bit of R & D , and i know what i should be doing. By far its still in the top of my list for web logs and magazines on webdesign to read. 3 cheers to the guys who work hard so that we easily get great articles to read. Thanks to the whole team.
Looking forward to some more interesting and innovative creations and articles. -
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Super informative Seite – ABER schade, dass es sie nicht auch in deutsch gibt
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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 2-3 days delay. There might be some exceptions though.
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The best magazine in the world! Thank you for the great stuff!!!
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Think there is a typo under A Smashing Time Line
2008 (July) Gues Author Contest is heldCheers.
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mailing of printed book not professional. lot of delays. lot of complaints.
what really is the bottleneck?
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Just want to say: Keep it up. Nothing else.
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Comic cartoons are not often conveying the exact message, or rather stay away from reader’s expectations. please avoid this space with some other stuff.
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Awesome team :)
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What is the address to submit something other than a calendar for publication to give as a freebie? Thank you.
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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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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 ;)
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best
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liked the concept of showing look-alike cartoons for About Us :)
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I love your site, its incredible. I have learned so much from this site. I wanted to ask you if its fine with you if I copy your articles (with reference) and paste on my blog? please let me know about it.
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Best resource for webdesign and web stuff, where it is from? It’s from Germany! ;P BTW: Nice Praxisbuch Web 2.0, Vitaly Friedman!
nelopeace
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Hello From Jakarta…
Smashing Magazine makes the best bread in town.
Can’t live without it…:)
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hi. SM is one of my best sites ever i want to know how to follow u from buzz?
thankyou
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The amount of information and resources that you guys pump out on a weekly basis through the SmashingMagazine website and your networks is amazing. As a designer/developer I’m always being constantly inspired and informed by all of the posts and info. Thanks! Big thanks!
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super website
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This is my favorite site.
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The Forums closed in April. Here is an old text about what happened:
Merely one year after its introduction the Smashing forum will be closed. it’s an open secret – as everybody can see – that the Smashing forum is not eactly the happening place. Frankly speaking, it’s all but Smashing. When it comes right down to it, the forum never even had a chance. Having survived the instant floods of spam mails and SEOs in its first days of existence, it’s never been capabale to grow by itself as Google would’nt index it. Today it’s still being abused as dump for links and advertising which is a source of nuisance to all honest forum members, who have used the forum to discuss webdesign topics with other professionals, who sought advice or contributed useful input. We thank all of these faithful members. But now the time has come to say goodbye. The server is going to be closed down next week. You may rest assure that your data will safely be deleted; they are not going to be used for any other purposes. See you at Smashing Magazine! -
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Can someone tell me where the smashing forums have gone?!?
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Oliver
February 9th, 2011 1:16 amI visit this site for years and only now I realize that you are from Freiburg – just around the corner :-) Keep up the good work! Greetings from Stuttgart, Oliver
Mithul
February 10th, 2011 8:28 pmSmashing magazine my daily reading online magazine, it is a world of creative resources and learning center for any web designers and developers.
tutopod
February 16th, 2011 6:42 amI love Smashing magazine
Philippe Brouard
February 23rd, 2011 12:17 amSmashing magazine has french readers also : “J’adore Smashing magazine, c’est toujours des infos de qualité ! Continuez comme ça.”
Mario Andrade
March 2nd, 2011 11:13 amAwesome team :)
nerds on call
April 19th, 2011 10:02 amWe really appreciate your content. Nice computer desk by the way.
nishant gupta
May 12th, 2011 11:37 pmUndefeated it goes!!
sommeil
May 29th, 2011 4:24 amYou’re in Freiburg? That’s just too awesome, perhaps I’ll be studying there in a year! Expect some creeper to come by, haha :D
Anyway, just wanted to say thanks for the site. You helped me greatly with my presentation ;3
Phil
February 21st, 2012 6:58 pmHi there,
I just tried to buy your new book and I got a broken window. Just wanted to show you the screengrab but can’t find and email anywhere. Please get in touch.
Cheers,
Phil
Oryo
February 28th, 2012 9:34 amHello from Belgium,
Always thinking that you were in USA…
Thanks for the tips and freebies!