The Smashing Network of Web Design Magazines
Since November 2009 Smashing Magazine’s front page shows not only contributions from Smashing Magazine, but also manually selected articles from the design magazines in our network. We want to make our front page more interesting, more dynamic and also more diverse. Our network members regularly contribute a wide range of high-quality content to the web design community. We prominently highlight their articles on our front page. In fact, the front page is now updated several times per day, so Smashing Magazine is now worth checking more often.
Network Members
Some of our network members are bigger, the others are smaller. Every site has its very own channel on Smashing Magazine. In fact, every network member has its very own channel on Smashing Magazine, with recent posts and Twitter updates. All content is manually approved and promoted on the network — no automation at all. So, you can be sure you’ll get only the best articles.
The network consists of the following high-quality web design blogs and magazines:
Smashing Magazine
Founded in September 2006, Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers. Our aim is to inform our readers about the latest trends and techniques in Web development. We try to convince you not with the quantity but with the quality of the information we present. We hope that makes us different. Smashing Magazine is, and always has been, independent.
Noupe
Noupe passionately delivers stylish and dynamic news for designers and web-developers on all subjects of design, ranging from; CSS, Ajax, Javascript, web design, graphics, typography, advertising & much more. Our goal is to help you communicate effectively on the web with an engaging website or functional interface. Founded in 2007 by Noura Yehia from Egypt the site is now property of Smashing Media GmbH.
Webdesigner Depot
We love design and are passionate about it in all its shapes and forms. Our vision is to make WDD a great showcase for this passion and feed a worldwide audience of savvy designers eager to learn more and share their knowledge with the design community.
Sixrevisions
Sixrevisions is a weblog that provides practical, useful information for the modern, standards-compliant web designer and web developer. It seeks to present exceptional, noteworthy tips, tutorials, and resources that the modern web professional will appreciate. You’ll find a variety of content from tools that can speed up your workflow processes to showcases of beautiful designs for inspiration and tutorials on JavaScript frameworks like jQuery and MooTools. The creator and primary author of Six Revisions is Jacob Gube.
Naldzgraphics
Naldz Graphics is a Design Blog for designers and design lovers. We are showcasing the best tutorials, freebies, inspirations and other useful and informative resources to help and give love to design community. Naldz Graphics is managed by Ronald Bien, a Graphic/Web Designer. Naldz Graphics is regularly posting useful and informative design articles which can help you on your daily activity.
Inspiredmag
Inspired Mag is a daily graphic design and social media inspiration source for designers, illustrators, Wordpress fanatics, iPhone enthusiasts and Twitter addicts. The magazine publishes at least an article per day and a few inspirational roundups per week.
UX Booth
The UX Booth is a collective of authors and contributors. Founded by the members of the UX Panel, it have since grown into a sizable community that writes from a variety of perspectives. Essentially, the UX Booth is a blog by and for the User Experience Community. Together, they are writing articles and sharing resources on usability, user experience, and interaction design.
Spyrestudios
SpyreStudios is the design and inspirational blog of Canadian web-designer Jon Phillips, which focusses on typography, design trends, web-development, CSS/HTML, jQuery, WordPress and minimalism. This blog is a fast growing resource for designers, artists, developers and bloggers alike and the audience is very internet savvy. The SpyreStudios blog is updated many times a week and also features many guest authors.
Think Vitamin
Think Vitamin is the blog of Carsonified. We design and build fun things and also produce events for web designers and developers. We believe in treating other people like we want to be treated: with friendliness, patience and respect. We believe that the web industry is one of the most exciting places in the world, and that it’s an honor for us to connect, encourage and train that community through our events. We believe in being more creative than we need to be and having fun while we’re at it.
Web Designer Wall
Web Designer Wall is designed and maintained by Nick La. He has been designing for several years and his work has been published on numbers of magazines. He loves to share ideas and design techniques. Web Designer Wall serves as his public blog where he posts his design ideas, tutorials, and talks about modern web design trends.
Designm.ag
DesignM.ag is a community-based website for web designers and developers. The site includes a popular blog, a user-submitted news section, a design gallery, and a design job board. We hope to get the design community involved as much as possible through submissions of community news, submissions to the gallery, guest posts, and comments at the blog.
Hongkiat
Hongkiat is a technology and design blog that constantly showcase some of the best materials, resources from the Internet to inspire their readers. Being one of the fastest growing blog in the industry, Hongkiat is also regular on Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, DesignFloat front page. We love what we write, and our readers love them too.
Boagworld
Boagworld is a podcast and blog for those who design, develop and run websites. It is the web design blog of Paul (the Wurzel) Boag who lives in the heart of rural Dorset. He produces a weekly podcast with Marcus (pop star) Lillington on all things relating to building and running websites.
Inspectelement
Inspect Element is a project born out of a need to give something back to a rather superb online community. Web designers and web developers are the most sharing professionals out there and this blog share what the author knows, what he has learnt and what he’ll learn in the future.
Build Internet
Build Internet is a blog for web design, development, and business run by twin brothers Sam and Zach Dunn. The goal is simple — help you build phenomenal sites. Build Internet writes articles and tutorials that demonstrate the latest web trends in action, as well as tips and motivation for improving your own business ventures.
Onextrapixel
Onextrapixel (OXP) is a digital community dedicated in delivering useful and comprehensive information for designers and developers. OXP is created by two Singapore web enthusiasts who love the beauty of sharing their web research and experience to their readers. OXP endeavors to present intriguing concepts, noteworthy tips, useful tutorials, and web resources that any modern web supporters will appreciate. Our philosophy has always stood firmly on showcasing web treats without hitch as we truly believe in providing high-quality and fresh contents down to even one extra pixel.
Speckyboy
The Speckyboy Design Magazine launched in October 2007, as a personal web design homepage. I was just taking (what felt like) a giant leap into freelance design and consultancy, and needed a home base for my potential clients to get in touch with me… Somewhere over the following months this site changed direction, when I realized I was getting more and more visitors. From that initial article I have tried to cover every aspect of web design and development offering free and high quality resources as well as attempting to inspire through our showcases.
Webitect
While web designers can come in numerous forms, this blog is for anyone who likes exploring new venues in online. We are those who define ourselves as web workers, but enjoy the online lifestyle so much that we do not define ourselves to one profession. We are bloggers, web designers, web programmers, entrepreneurs, freelancers, non-freelancers, and everything else in between.
Woorkup
Woorkup up is a web community created by Antonio Lupetti about Web Design, Tech News and Digital Inspiration that delivers tutorials, resources, documentation and tech news for web designers and developers.
Want To Join The Network?
The main requirement for membership in our content network is that you regularly publish high-quality content on your blog or magazine. You don’t have to be popular or have a lot of traffic; you could be just starting out.
You can apply for membership by sending an email to network@smashingmagazine.com. Please send us the description of your magazine or blog and a link to it. We will be reviewing membership periodically, so please be patient and stay tuned for updates.
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