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Smashing Magazine aims for a large variety of useful and inspirational high-quality articles. Because we have very different readers, we also try to cover a wide range of their interests. We cover various topics and areas in design and web-development, delivering new design approaches, fresh ideas as well as best design and coding practices. Overall, we have 9 main categories – or sections – in the magazine. Of course, each of these sections stands for some particular aspect of design and web-development.

Graphics

This category features posts with free icons, textures, brushes and other similar resources. In particular, you’ll find many collections of various wallpapers — fullscreen wallpapers, iPhone wallpapers, dual-desktop-wallpapers etc. This is also the place that hosts our regular Desktop Wallpaper Calendar series. See Graphics.

Showcases

This section displays the works of designers and artists worldwide. Here you will find web design showcases and user interface showcases; sometimes we focus on small design detail (like a search box or back to top-link), and sometimes we present designs that have a common goal or audience (TV Show Web Designs or Music Night Club Web Designs). Showcases of blogs and portfolios are almost legendary in this section. See Showcases.

Inspiration

This category is supposed to help you break your creativity block by exploring galleries of art, design and photography. Different from Showcases, here you will more general and abstract ideas. The section covers galleries of beautiful photography (black and white photography, macro photography), articles about influential artists and their styles (Bauhaus: Ninety Years of Inspiration) as well as showcases of art and digital art (Retro futurism and Graffiti). See Inspiration.

Fonts

This category covers various aspects of typography and type design. Here you will find useful typographic design tools, articles related to typography, reviews of popular commercial typefaces as well as free fonts for corporate and professional designs. See Fonts.

How-to

This section is dedicated for articles that focus on the practical side of web-development. How do you make sure that something that works in theory also works in practice? Experts and professionals reveal their tips, tricks and ideas, new design approaches and obscure tools. Also, this category contains various information for freelancers and those running design business. Also usability- and marketing-related articles as well as case-studies are published in this category. See How-to.

CSS

In this category you will find articles that go in-depth covering every possible aspect of Cascading Style Sheets. Some articles are explaining the theory behind CSS (z-index, CSS selectors), the others bridge theory and practice showing techniques and tutorials used on websites (50 New CSS Techniques). See CSS.

Tools

Here we present tools and resources that designers and developers can use to streamline and improve their regular workflow. In particular, the section contains round-ups of coding and designing tools, desktop applications and useful online resources and templates (for instance, Wordpress templates). See Tools.

Freebies

This large section contains dozens of freely available resources that were released on Smashing Magazine over the last years. You will find many icons, brushes, templates, PSDs, vector kits and tools that you can use without any restrictions whatsoever in your private and commercial projects. See Freebies.

Tutorials

One effective way to learn design and programming is by studying how professionals get from the initial draft to a polished result. In this category you will find literally hundreds of text and video tutorials that cover most popular design applications like Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks and GIMP. See Tutorials

Events

This section is dedicated for events, news and announcements by Smashing Magazine team. Among other things, here you can take a look at recent updates, giveaways and other important events. See Events.

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