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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... More... 64 Comments
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.... More... 3,876 Comments
Style Switchers Are Back: Ideas, Examples and a Contest

Design a style switcher and win an Apple Cinema 20 Flat Panel Display with 16.7 million colors, 400:1 contrast ratio, 0.258 mm dot pitch, 16 ms response time and 170-degree viewing angles. Yes, that's... More... 172 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... More... 246 Comments
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... More... 101 Comments
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... More... 151 Comments
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... More... 119 Comments
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... More... 35 Comments
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... More... 96 Comments
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... More... 140 Comments
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... More... 37 Comments
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... More... 84 Comments
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... More... 1,857 Comments
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... More... 2,105 Comments
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... More... 141 Comments
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... More... 64 Comments
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... More... 114 Comments
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... More... 90 Comments
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... More... 73 Comments