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Smashing Magazine’s Redesign and Smashing Network
Something has changed here today. Smashing Magazine has shaped up. We know that extensive design changes usually create a split echo: some readers are happy and appreciate the additional features and benefits, while others don't want to see anything change because they're comfortable in their old habits. However, publishers have ...
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Smashing Goes Down On September 2nd: What Happened?
September 2nd was a sad day for Smashing Magazine. Late in the evening, we received an email from one of our readers, reporting that the data on our Web server may have been compromised. We have conducted a careful examination of the situation, and it turns out that someone attempted ...
Read more... | 147 CommentsThe Smashing Book: Pre-Order Now And Save 20%
Update (20/11/2009): The third SM Book Newsletter.Update (27/10/2009): The second SM Book Newsletter with detailed explanations of delays and production problems and also with the freely available Chapter 1 (PDF) of the Smashing Book. Update (18/10/2009): Again, we sincerely apologize for the delay and we promise that we will ship your ...
Read more... | 956 Comments8 Days Left To Enter The Typographic Layout Design Contest
You have 8 more days to submit your entry for our Typographic Layout Design Contest. The goal of the contest is to collect beautiful typographic (X)HTML- and CSS-based layouts, created by you, and release them for free as a gift to the Web design community.So far, only 12 entries have ...
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The Upcoming Smashing Book
Our biggest and most important project of the year, the Smashing Book, has come in swinging. Eleven extensive articles have been written, as decided by our readers. They are at various stages of completion. Creating a book ultimately requires more effort and dedication than online articles because, in the end, ...
Read more... | 111 CommentsTypographic Layout Design Contest: Join In and Win!
As web-designers, we shouldn't underestimate the power of typography. The content is the king and typography is an extremely powerful mean that can help designers to effectively convey their messages to the audience. Recently we presented an overview of useful typographic CSS-tools and 8 Simple Ways To Improve Web Typography. ...
Read more... | 68 CommentsSmashing Community WordPress Theme: Vote Now!
Last tuesday, we invited you to participate in the Smashing Community WordPress theme event, in which you would tell us what icons you want and we would design them for you together with the guys behind PSD To WordPress (who have redesigned their web-site a couple of days ago). We ...
Read more... | 72 CommentsSmashing Community WordPress Theme: Comment and Win!
While the Smashing Community icon set is being designed and prepared for the release, we would like to ask your opinion about the WordPress theme that you would like us to design. And here’s how it works: you tell us what Wordpress-theme you need, and then we design it together ...
Read more... | 519 CommentsThe Smashing Book: Vote For The Book Cover Now!
The Smashing Book project is now entering its next phase. Based upon your tremendous feedback, we have finalized the concept and the outline for the book. In fact, the topics have been selected and our writers have already started to brainstorm the ideas for their chapters in the book. The ...
Read more... | 281 CommentsThe Smashing Book: Vote For Topics Now!
The Smashing Book project is coming along. At the end of February we announced our most interesting (and important) project for 2009: “The Smashing Book,” a smashingly written, beautifully designed and professionally printed book. The book’s title will be “The Smashing Book”; it will be a paperback; and the price ...
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Smashing Community Icon Set: Vote Now!
Two days ago, we invited you to participate in the Smashing Community Icon Set event, in which you would tell us what icons you want and we would design them for you together with the design agency SoftFacade of Russia. We express our sincere gratitude for the engagement of our ...
Read more... | 48 CommentsSmashing Community Icon Set: Comment and Win!
Ready for this? Here's how it works: you tell us what icons you need, and then we design them together with SoftFacade (which recently created the beautiful Smashing Retro Icon Set) and release them for free. And to make it a bit more interesting, we'll smash six commenters and forum ...
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(5.00 out of 5; votes: 1) - Hardware Giveaway: 5,000 Comments Challenge! (5.00 out of 5; votes: 1)
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- Smashing Magazine’s Redesign and Smashing Network
(4.21 out of 5; votes: 245) - 40+ Books For Professional Design & Development (4.00 out of 5; votes: 1)
- Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: Join in! (3.00 out of 5; votes: 2)
- Smashing Magazine Comic Strip: Episode 1 (2.50 out of 5; votes: 6)
- Smashing Textures Contest (0.00 out of 5; votes: 0)
- Smashing Community Icon Set: Vote Now! (0.00 out of 5; votes: 0)
Hardware Giveaway: 5,000 Comments Challenge!
Update (27/02): we received 9000 comments – we hit the 5,000 mark! And the winners are: 1) graphic card goes to Joshua Lawson (#5533) from Sewell, NJ; 2) the mouse goes to Gareth (#5651) from Cape Town, South Africa; 3) the headphones go to Catalin (#8598) from Bucharest, Romania. Congratulations! ...
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Books Giveaway: Comment and Win!
Over the last weeks we have again selected dozens of useful development and web design-related books, we’ve bought all of them and we wanted to give them all away to our readers — for free. Unfortunately, it turned out that some books were unavailable, some were sold out and some ...
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Books Giveaway: Comment and Win!
As you may or may not know, we like to smash things. Apart from releasing free icons, themes and wallpapers, every now and again we pick a dozen of professional design and web-development-books, buy them and give them away to our readers — for free, of course. We genuinely appreciate ...
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40+ Books For Professional Design & Development
Professionalism is built upon knowledge and experience. To become or remain professional, you permanently need to improve your design and programming skills, be aware of new approaches and now how other designers and developers achieve both beautiful and effective designs. And to improve your design and programming skills all ...
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Smashing 1st Anniversary Giveaway
On Monday we’ve presented 40+ books for professional design and development. We’ve ordered most of them and are giving them away to our readers. However, if you think that we were planning to celebrate with few excellent books-giveaways, you should think again. Few weeks ago we’ve chosen some of the useful ...
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Smashing Magazine’s 2nd Anniversary
It happened again. Today, Smashing Magazine celebrates its second birthday. We are two years old now and we are proud of what we have achieved over these years. To celebrate our anniversary, we could do any number of things. For instance, we could organize a huge giveaway—as we did one ...
Read more... | 1,758 CommentsThe Smashing Book: Pre-Order Now And Save 20%
Update (20/11/2009): The third SM Book Newsletter. Update (27/10/2009): The second SM Book Newsletter with detailed explanations of delays and production problems and also with the freely available Chapter 1 (PDF) of the Smashing Book. Update (18/10/2009): Again, we sincerely apologize for the delay and we promise that we will ship your ...
Read more... | 956 CommentsSmashing Community WordPress Theme: Comment and Win!
While the Smashing Community icon set is being designed and prepared for the release, we would like to ask your opinion about the WordPress theme that you would like us to design. And here’s how it works: you tell us what Wordpress-theme you need, and then we design it together ...
Read more... | 519 CommentsSmashing Magazine’s Redesign and Smashing Network
Something has changed here today. Smashing Magazine has shaped up. We know that extensive design changes usually create a split echo: some readers are happy and appreciate the additional features and benefits, while others don’t want to see anything change because they’re comfortable in their old habits. However, publishers have ...
Read more... | 463 CommentsSmashing Community Icon Set: Comment and Win!
Ready for this? Here’s how it works: you tell us what icons you need, and then we design them together with SoftFacade (which recently created the beautiful Smashing Retro Icon Set) and release them for free. And to make it a bit more interesting, we’ll smash six commenters and forum ...
Read more... | 358 CommentsThe Smashing Book: Vote For The Book Cover Now!
The Smashing Book project is now entering its next phase. Based upon your tremendous feedback, we have finalized the concept and the outline for the book. In fact, the topics have been selected and our writers have already started to brainstorm the ideas for their chapters in the book. The ...
Read more... | 281 Comments
We Have Won Webinale Awards 2008!
In April we have written that Smashing Magazine has been nominated for the Most Valuable Design Website in the Webinale Awards 2008, the award of an international Web conference Webinale which took place in Karlsruhe, Germany on May 26 – 28. The competition awards most useful and innovative sites related ...
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Write a Guest Post and Win Apple MacBook Air
As you may know, we are looking for motivated, talented and professional writers and authors. And we are paying each author $100-300 per post — depending on the quality of the delivered article. If you think that you are one of them contact us — we want you, we need ...
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Smashing Magazine Comic Strip: Episode 1
A couple of weeks ago we celebrated Cartoons and Comic Strip Art and, to be honest, there was a good reason why we took some time to research on this topic. The truth is that we are pretty tired of the same kind of content appearing in the Web over ...
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Style Switchers Are Back: Ideas, Examples and a Contest
Style switchers are used to provide users with a choice of layouts, fonts, colors and views they can use to adapt the design to their personal needs. Designs with style switchers are more flexbile, more adaptive and more user-friendly as different visitors can quickly modify the design for their personal ...
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- @ilmv no, the SM Book will not be out of date :) We made sure it contains universal design, usability and marketing principles.
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- @HrvojeKC yes, that's an interesting idea. Maybe when the waiting is over, we'll write a detailed post about it.
