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  Smashing Textures Contest

  Take a shot, send us the image and win a Canon Digital Rebel camera. In web design textures are needed in background-images and header graphics. Graphic designers use textures to transport some concrete aspects of real-life into the digital presentation.... More... 3 Comments

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  Vote for us on Webinale Awards 2008!

  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 will take place in Karlsruhe, Germany on May 26 - 28. The competition awards most useful and... More... 144 Comments

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  Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: Join in!

  Few weeks ago we've presented a wallpaper calender for March 2008 — a desktop wallpaper designed by Patricia Villanueva, a 29-year-old graphics designer from Mexico-City. We've stumbled upon Patricia's works which have impressed us by her bold, intriguing,... More... 47 Comments

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  Raise The Curtain For… Smashing Jobs

  A job board? Right. Not a big thing compared to Einsteins theory of relativity. But in the universe of web-developers where most of us use to live, Smashing Jobs may turn out to be a pretty good damn thing. In fact, it has benefits for both job seekers and... More... 36 Comments

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  Smashing Header Graphics Contest

  In many blogs header graphics often takes a prominent position as bloggers try to impress visitors with distinctive and appealing visual elements. In fact, designed properly, header graphics can create an appropriate atmosphere and convey the style the designer... More... 92 Comments

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  We Experience Solved Serious Server Problems

  Update (06.12.2007): the decision is already made and the installation is running. We hope to get back on track till the end of the week. We'll publish a detailed article about the issues shortly. Thank you for your comments. Currently we are experiencing... More... 139 Comments

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  Best Technology Blog Nomination

  Smashing Magazine has been nominated for the Best Technology Blog in the 2007 Weblog Awards, the world's largest blog competition. Being the only web design-related magazine among other nominees, we're competing against mighty Lifehacker, Engadget and Gizmodo... More... 36 Comments

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  Winners Of Anniversary Contests

  Last week we've celebrated our first anniversary and announced two anniversary giveaways for our readers — the book giveaway and the developer's tools giveaway. Almost 4,000 visitors have participated; and now, as the deadline passed, we've drawn the... More... 83 Comments

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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.... More... 1855 Comments

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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... More... 2103 Comments

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  Get Out The Balloons: Smashing’s 1st Anniversary

  Smashing Magazine is one year old. Over the last year our little weblog has gone through quite a development. We've published 126 articles, trying to address the most important issues, trends and developments related to design and web-development. We've heard a... More... 124 Comments

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  Winners of the Logo Contest

  It took us five days in a row to find five best designs for our Smashing Magazine Logo Contest. It was hard and it was a neck-and-neck race for 5 competitors. You can find selected designs in the article Logo Contest - Sketches and Designs. And now we have... More... 64 Comments

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  Logo Contest - Sketches and Designs

  It was a tough decision to make. Three weeks ago we've announced the Smashing Magazine Logo Contest for the most creative, clean and fresh logo for our site. We've received over 190 Logos from 105 participants, living all around the world. We had a big choice... More... 105 Comments

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  Smashing Magazine Logo Contest

  Few days ago we've re-aligned the Smashing Magazine web-site, changed the theme and - most importantly - re-designed the navigation menu. So far so good. However, in the end we've found ourselves in a dilemma - Smashing Magazine doesn't have a proper logo, which... More... 88 Comments

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  8 Things You Should Know About Smashing Magazine

  You probably expected a list, and in fact you'll get one. Since there have been many misunderstandings going on about Smashing Magazine, we'd like to explain, why we do what we do and why we are doing it this way. Please spread the word if you'd like to support... More... 73 Comments