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Smashing Author Contest: Results
One month ago we announced the guest author contest, with the main prize being an Apple MacBook Air. We received 252 submissions. The choice was tough and time-consuming as we wanted to have a nice mix of various articles participating in the contest. In the end we have selected 15 ...
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Two Days Left To Enter Guest Author Contest
We would like to remind you that the deadline for our guest author contest is approaching. Best guest articles will be published on Smashing Magazine with the link to the author’s site. The best guest post will be awarded with Apple MacBook Air. Apart from that then further writers will ...
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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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Style Switchers Contest Results
Three weeks ago we have announced the Style Switchers Design Contest where we've presented some ideas for style switchers design and encouraged our readers to create a style switcher for their own web-sites. One of the participants was to be awarded with an Apple Cinema 20 Flat Panel Display. ...
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Books Giveaway: Winners
Over last weeks we have selected dozens of useful development and web design-related books. Not all of them were available which is why we've decided to give away at least the books which are available now and keep the rest for future giveaways. Consequently, we provided you with the opportunity ...
Read more... | 64 CommentsBooks 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 ...
Read more... | 3,876 CommentsStyle 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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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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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. Textures are also used to create an atmosphere which fits ...
Read more... | 103 CommentsVote 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 innovative sites related to design and technology. We’re competing ...
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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, crazy, personal, but genuinely creative and unusual style. Being fair, we would ...
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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 employers. ...
Read more... | 35 Comments- Get Out The Balloons: Smashing’s 1st Anniversary
(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! ...
Read more... | 8,983 CommentsBooks 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... | 967 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 ...
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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 ...
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 CommentsWe 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 ...
Read more... | 246 CommentsWrite 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 ...
Read more... | 225 Comments
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 ...
Read more... | 180 CommentsStyle 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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