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The Smashing Book: Join In!

The Smashing Book: Join In!

No, we're not giving anything away in this post. Instead, we've got some work to do, and we need you to play an important role in it. Our most interesting (and important) project for 2009 is something we are modestly calling "The Smashing Book": a smashingly written, beautifully designed and ...

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Hardware Giveaway: 5,000 Comments Challenge!

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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Please Update Your Smashing Magazine RSS Feed!

Please Update Your Smashing Magazine RSS Feed!

By our own admission, we have had trouble these last few months delivering a perfect RSS news feed. Until now, our feed has been hosted by Feedburner, but due to all the recent Feedburner-problems, we decided to take over that task directly and deliver our RSS feeds from our own ...

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Smashing Forum Launch and Books Giveaway

Smashing Forum Launch and Books Giveaway

The Smashing Magazine Forum is now officially launched. For a while, we have been working on its design, functionality and details, and today we are happy to finally welcome our readers to the new forum. The idea behind it is to provide our community with a place to discuss problems, ...

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Smashing Magazine Comic Strip: Episode 1

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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Smashing Highlights 2008

Smashing Highlights 2008

2008 was a successful year for us and for Smashing Magazine. Reviewing what has happened on Smashing Magazine over the last year, we could have told a couple of impressive stories that happened here and there, but we won't do that. Instead, we would like to take a rather critical ...

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Books Giveaway: Winners

Books Giveaway: Winners

Last week we announced a books giveaway (the page take minutes to load) — we were giving away 10 professional web design-related books that cover the topics CSS, usability, user interface design, innovation, web navigation, web form design and JavaScript programming. We genuinely appreciate our community and respect our readers ...

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Books Giveaway: Comment and Win!

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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Fresh Job Openings On Smashing Jobs

Fresh Job Openings On Smashing Jobs

The web-industry is a fickle environment. Projects come and go, clients make promises and never return, raising hopes and breaking deadlines. Hence, it's always worth to check out our job board Smashing Jobs. You can just click on "Jobs" in the horizontal navbar at the top or use the widget ...

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Smashing Magazine’s 2nd Anniversary

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 ...

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Fresh Job Openings On Smashing Jobs

Fresh Job Openings On Smashing Jobs

The web-industry is a fickle environment. Projects come and go, clients make promises and never return, raising hopes and breaking deadlines. Hence, it's always worth to check out our job board Smashing Jobs which we have launched few months ago. You can just click on "Jobs" in the horizontal navbar ...

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The <hr /> Contest

The <hr /> Contest

What is <hr />? Basically, it is an old HTML-tag which has been used since the very beginning of the Web. hr stands for the horizontal rule and represents exactly what you would expect — a horizontal line or a horizontal divider. By default, web browsers render hr as ...

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Hardware Giveaway: 5,000 Comments Challenge!

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!

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!

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

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

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

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 ...

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The Smashing Book: Pre-Order Now And Save 20%

The 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 ...

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Smashing Community WordPress Theme: Comment and Win!

Smashing 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 ...

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Smashing Magazine’s Redesign and Smashing Network

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 Community Icon Set: Comment and Win!

Smashing 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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The Smashing Book: Vote For The Book Cover Now!

The 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 ...

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We Have Won Webinale Awards 2008!

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

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

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 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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  • Re: High Education!

    I did it years ago, we learned stuff like Java applets, MIDI background music and animated gifs so I don't know what the course would be like now.

  • Re: High Education!

    I will definitely check that out. Were you satisfied by the quality of teaching?

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  • Re: High Education!

    I did web design & development at university of abertay in Scotland. You can find other UK courses from the UCAS site - http://search.ucas.com/cgi-bin/hsrun/se…

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