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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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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
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... | 1,751 CommentsFresh 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
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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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 ...
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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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(4.86 out of 5; votes: 29) - Smashing Magazine’s 2nd Anniversary (4.79 out of 5; votes: 42)
- Smashing Newsletter Challenge… And Giveaway! (4.76 out of 5; votes: 41)
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- Smashing Magazine’s Redesign and Smashing Network
(4.21 out of 5; votes: 248) - Smashing Textures Contest (4.00 out of 5; votes: 1)
- Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: Join in! (3.13 out of 5; votes: 8)
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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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 CommentsBooks 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 ...
Read more... | 3,683 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 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 ...
Read more... | 1,857 CommentsSmashing 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 Is Released: Buy Now!
Here it is, the brand new Smashing Book. Announced several months ago in a couple of posts, it has finally arrived. You can buy the Smashing Book right now. And in case you didn’t know, it’s available here exclusively. The book is available and can be shipped right away.The Smashing ...
Read more... | 1,362 CommentsThe Smashing Book: Pre-Order Now!
Update (02/12/2009): The fourth SM Book Newsletter. The books are being sent out now. Pre-ordering isn’t possible any longer. 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 ...
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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
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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The Smashing Book: Already Got Yours?
Have you gotten your copy of The Smashing Book yet? If not, it may still be worth spending $29.90 for this printed book. The book shares technical tips and best practices on typography, usability, UI design, marketing and color usage. It contains interviews with high profile designers and developers. And ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Read more... | 246 CommentsSmashing Newsletter Challenge… And Giveaway!
It’s time for something brand new and exciting on Smashing Magazine. Actually, we have quite a few things in the works, and today we are happy to reveal one of them. Over the years, we have published many lengthy articles, and now we want to write some shorter ones for ...
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