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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 has chosen. Well-designed themes can be as useful as templates, particularly ...
Read more... | 67 CommentsSmashing Highlights 2007
Although Smashing Magazine is quite young, a number of things happened in 2007. Aside from dozens of articles, we've organized few contests, re-designed our weblog and we also have released two WordPress-themes and a Smashing free font.In this post we revise what happened on Smashing Magazine over the last year. ...
Read more... | 58 CommentsWe 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 some major problems with our server, as it ...
Read more... | 140 CommentsBest 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 which are long way ahead of us. However we strongly believe that together ...
Read more... | 37 CommentsWinners 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 winners randomly.All winners will be contacted within the next 24 hours. Congratulations ...
Read more... | 85 CommentsSmashing 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 Comments40+ 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 ...
Read more... | 2,105 CommentsGet 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 web design and web-development. We've heard a lot of criticism, but we've also received a ...
Read more... | 141 CommentsWinners 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 the winner.It ...
Read more... | 64 CommentsLogo 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 and it wasn't easy ...
Read more... | 114 CommentsSmashing 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 would mark our identity and relate ...
Read more... | 91 Comments8 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 us, ...
Read more... | 75 Comments- Get Out The Balloons: Smashing’s 1st Anniversary
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- Smashing Magazine Comic Strip: Episode 1 (2.33 out of 5; votes: 3)
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 ...
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 Comments40+ 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 ...
Read more... | 2,105 CommentsSmashing 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 ...
Read more... | 1,758 CommentsThe Smashing Book: Pre-Order Now And Save 20%
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 book to you as soon as ...
Read more... | 876 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 ...
Read more... | 519 CommentsSmashing 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... | 458 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... | 359 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 CommentsSmashing 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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