The Smashing Network
Our network members regularly contribute a wide range of high-quality content to the Web design community. We highlight their best articles. The page is updated several times per day, so Smashing Magazine is now worth checking out more often. There is also a new Network RSS-Feed (excerpts only).
Some of our network members are bigger, the others are smaller. Every site has its very own channel on Smashing Magazine, with recent posts and Twitter updates. The content is approved and promoted in the network. 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:
Noupe Design Blog
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.
Cats Who Code
Created by Jean-Baptiste Jung in June 2008, Cats Who Code provides practical web development tutorials and resources for both beginners and advanced developers. With a focus on topics as such as WordPress, jQuery and CSS, Cats Who Code will help you build better websites. Meow!
CSS-Tricks
CSS-Tricks is a Web design community curated by CSS ninja Chris Coyier. The website offers a variety of articles, tips, tutorials and screencasts on front-end development, mostly CSS and jQuery. The website also features useful snippets and freebies and has a growing community forum.
The Design Cubicle
The author has focused his design business around his blog, The Design Cubicle. The blog focuses on all topics of design, creativity and learning; offering free tips, articles and insight into areas that include, but are not limited to, print design, web design, logo design, branding, advertising & marketing and more. While the blog has an overall theme of graphic design, it is not solely intended for just designers. The goal is to help educate and enlighten both designers and those interested in hiring professional design services.
Design Informer
Design Informer is a fresh new blog that brings the latest in Web and graphic design. It has Photoshop tutorials, freebies, resources, inspiration and much more. It is one of the fastest-growing design blogs, and it strives to always deliver high-quality content to readers.
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.
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.
UX Magazine
UX Magazine was created to provide a central place to discuss the critical disciplines that enhance user experience. An extraordinary user experience should be the goal of every interaction you deliver to users at any level. All too often, businesses (large and small) get it horribly wrong. It’s painful to watch and even worse when it happens to you.
Developer Drive
Developer Drive is a quality Web development blog featuring tutorials, tips, news and reviews on things that matter to developers. We cover the latest trends and techniques such as CSS3, HTML5, WordPress, responsive/mobile design and much more.
Impressive Webs
Impressive Webs is an article and tutorial website dedicated to providing practical information on and solutions to common front-end Web development problems and issues. Created and updated by Louis Lazaris.
Yoast
Yoast helps you tweak your website; from search engine rankings, to speed to user experience. Yoast founder Joost de Valk and guests provide tips on optimizing WordPress, Magento, search engine rankings, analytics and website performance. They also offer the SEO tools, Magento extensions and WordPress plugins to make it all possible.
EchoEnduring
The Echo Enduring Blog is a web and graphic design blog dedicated to
providing thoughtful and insightful content, with the intention of
teaching, motivating, challenging and equipping its readership.
Prominent subject areas include web design, identity and illustration,
though we do occasionally discuss other aspects of design from time to time.
Janko At Warp Speed
JankoAtWarpSpeed is a blog about user interface design and development curated by Janko Jovanovic, UI designer and software engineer. Apart from a large number of front-end tutorials that focus on exploring new ideas, there are many articles about designing interfaces, from user-centric approach basics to interesting design patterns and practices. One wireframing kit and a few icons sets has been release on the blog since its launch.
GetFinch
The FINCH Blog focuses on all things design and user experience (UX). In-depth articles touch on many topics: Using core design principles and thinking to solve problems, user-centric design for websites, applications, and devices, as well as perspectives on the Web industry. At the end of the day, the goal is to inform, entertain, and inspire. This blog is curated by designer Francisco Inchauste.
Codrops
Codrops is a web development and web design blog that focuses on unique front-end development approaches via instructive tutorials, interesting experiments and inspiring articles. The main idea behind Codrops is to provide useful information and creative techniques for the newly hybrid web designer/developer. Codrops is curated by a international team of dedicated web developers and web designers. We also think that jQuery rocks!
CSS Wizardry
CSS Wizardry is the personal blog of Harry Roberts, passionate and outspoken web developer from the UK. CSS Wizardry publishes articles covering web development, web standards, typography, best practices, tips, tricks and everything in between.
Elated
Elated is for people who design, build, and run websites. We provide articles for readers interested in CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, Photoshop, HTML, web design, web hosting, domains, and website promotion. Elated also features a collection of freebies for web designers, including templates, stock photos and Photoshop actions. We have a friendly and growing community of designers and coders in our forums.
Drawar
Drawar is a both a group design journal and community. It tackles design from all angles and industries because to become a well-rounded designer you should have a great understanding of all aspects of design beyond just web. The goal is to introduce web designers to design knowledge and theory that they might not come across on other sites. The end result is a place where people love to talk about design, no matter what their level of experience might be.
xheight
xheight is a collaborative blog about ideas and thoughts. It aims to share the inner-most secrets of professional designers. On one hand, xheight will allow its authors to understand their own discipline, but more importantly, it will allow others a new perspective on what design can mean. By asking “What does design mean to you?” we are creating a collaborative context that, hopefully, shines new light on design. xheight is all about positive and collaborative design thinking.
.net Magazine
.net is the world’s best-selling magazine for Web designers and developers, featuring tutorials from leading agencies, interviews with the Web’s biggest names, and agenda-setting features on the hottest issues affecting the internet today.
Six Revisions
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.
Design Shack
Design Shack showcases inspiring web design alongside resources and tutorials for you to succeed in the same way. Regular articles teach you new techniques for creating your own designs, and daily community news ensures that you’re up to date with the latest developments elsewhere. Design Shack is managed by David Appleyard & Joshua Johnson.
Design Festival
Design Festival provides daily tutorials and inspiration for designers. In these pages, web design professionals from around the world share their tips, advice, and expertise. Access best-??practice UX design, logo design, typography, and coding advice. Indulge your passion for design—and learn a thing or two as you go. Contribute your own expertise to help others sharpen their skills. Welcome to Design Festival.
Attack of Design
Attack of Design is the design blog of Sacha Greif (@SachaGreif), a user interface designer from France. You’ll find a little bit of everything, but mostly observations about design, startups, and lots of complaining about bad UI.
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.
Web Design Ledger
The Web Design Ledger is a publication written by web designers for web designers. The primary purpose of this site is to act as a platform for sharing web design related knowledge and resources. Topics range from design inspiration to tips and tutorials and everything in between.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
FreelanceFolder
FreelanceFolder is a community for all types of freelancers, entrepreneurs, work-at-home business owners, and web-workers. At FreelanceFolder, we’re constantly striving to bring you the articles, information, and community you need to succeed.
UsabilityPost
UsabilityPost is a blog about design. Design isn’t about what something looks like but about how it works. Making something usable means understanding what people expect from your product and thinking of ways to make their use of it simple and enjoyable. The aim of UsabilityPost is to provide relevant resources, tips and insights related to good design to help you make great products. UsabilityPost was founded by Dmitry Fadeyev in 2008.
Web Designer Notebook
This blog’s purpose is to shed light on CSS and front-end development for those who are starting out, while also going deeper into more complex areas such as CSS3. Created by CSS master Inayaili de León.
Line25
Line25 is the drawing board of creative Web design, a place where ideas and inspiration are drafted into articles, tutorials and round-ups of cutting-edge Web design. Created and updated by Chris Spooner.
Sickdesigner
Sickdesigner.com is the personal blog of a Romanian designer Radu Chelariu; a small, yet eager site, ever changing, idea busting, sometimes blog-like, and always focused on useful web design articles. Sick tutorials, tips and articles on design and the Web.
Vandelay Design
Vandelay Website Design exists to help businesses and organizations build a stronger presence online. Most of our clients have struggled to find a reliable designer who is commited to their success and offers affordable services. By working directly with our clients to identify and address areas of need we are able to provide a customized experience and an end product that will produce results and lead to increased profitability.
PSD Tuts+
Psdtuts+ is a blog/Photoshop site made to house and showcase some of the best Photoshop tutorials around. We publish tutorials that not only produce great graphics and effects, but explain the techniques behind them in a friendly, approachable manner.
Net Tuts+
Nettuts+ is a site aimed at web developers and designers offering tutorials and articles on technologies, skills and techniques to improve how you design and build websites. We cover HTML, CSS, Javascript, CMS’s, PHP and Ruby on Rails.
Just Creative Design
Just Creative Design is the design blog of designer & creative, Jacob Cass. The blog focuses on all areas of design and creativity, ranging from but not limited to; graphic design, logo design, web design, advertising, branding, typography, designers, blogging, resources, photography, colour, marketing, social media, user experience and more.
The Daily Egg
The Daily Egg, brought to you by Crazy Egg, is a blog about web design and the effect that web design has on conversion. The goal is to provide a resource for web designers and conversion optimization specialists that work in the small business community. Topics range from the best practices of responsive web design to designing compelling call-to-action buttons.
Web Standards Sherpa
The goal of WebStandardsSherpa.com is to provide web professionals the opportunity to receive feedback, glean advice and learn best practices from experts in the field to help them improve the quality of their own work.
Script Junkie
Script Junkie aims to help web developers gain the knowledge to build cross-browser compatible websites using JavaScript, HTML & CSS. By providing solutions-based articles, videos and code samples, developers will be able to have a concise resource to go to for the latest in web development techniques. With contributors such as Christian Heilmann, Elijah Manor, Emily Lewis, Juriy Zaytsev and other notable industry notables, you can rest assured that the content on Script Junkie will be timely and relevant and you’ll learn from experts about the latest techniques.
MIX Online
MIX Online is an opinionated group of designs and developers who try to provide thoughtful, relevant articles and opinions that encourage friendly dialogue.
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.
Abduzeedo
Abduzeedo is a collection of visual inspiration and useful tutorials. There are all sorts of articles for those who want to look for inspiration. Also you will find useful tutorials for the most used applications out there, with a special selection of Photoshop Tutorials and Illustrator Tutorials. One of the goals of Abduzeedo is to be an open channel to the design community, encouraging feedback. The Daily Inspiration is a proof of that, everybody can send images that inspired them so we can share with the community.
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.
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.
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. Unfortunately, you can not apply for membership at the moment. All new members of the network are invited by the Smashing Editorial Team.
We love high-quality content and we care about little details. We believe that good content and design are crafts worth sharpening. Located in the lovely city of Freiburg, Germany. Mostly Vitaly (vf), Iris (il) and Sven (sl).
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sorry, but you didnt get the point. you need to be an accepted member to receive traffic. placing an icon dont get you anything.
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Is there a way to search for articles that come from the entire network? Instead of just a Smashing Magazine-specific search?
Thanks,
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That’s great inspiration. I hope I’ll soon be part of the network.
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Who cares about the traffic. It’s about the content. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/04/08/opinion-column-the-sad-state-of-the-web-design-community/
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I don’t know what SM is using but I think you need this: Google AJAX FEED API. It will pull FEEDS (i.e. posts, excerpts) of any public blog/website and display it as html on any webpage you want. http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxfeeds/
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What is the procedure to joint or be a member of smashing magazine, also criteria ?
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i am going to apply ..
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Hope to be a part of it, when we’ll launch.
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Hey, I want to know which plugin you use for this network post, which directly open on their website url. I am a designer from India, and I learn many things from sm, please I will be very thankful if you tell me that plugin or some trick to show other website articles in your blog, like you doing in sm network…
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Wow, so cute…just love it! thank you guys! you have to do very good job .
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Hey guys, how long are you pausing the submission process? Was looking to submit our original feed from feedgrids.com/originals
Cheers
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Awesome list of sites, I just subscribed to a bunch of RSS feeds!
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Hi Friend, we would like to join your network also as our most of friends are listed, hope you will review on our request. thanks
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Great list! Thank you lot, looking forward for your stuff :o)
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Please send us your application through our contact form here http://www.smashingmagazine.com/contact/ and choose the subject network.
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Chaitanya VRK
February 16th, 2010 7:39 amThat’s great inspiration. I hope I’ll soon be part of the network.
Umarfaruk M
October 21st, 2010 5:53 amAll the best :)
Andy Kinsey
February 27th, 2010 12:40 pmBrilliant Network – wish my site was in the network pfft :P
Jaspal Singh
March 8th, 2010 11:50 ami am going to apply ..
Rajeev
March 20th, 2010 2:25 pmWhere to apply?
Mattc0m
March 16th, 2010 9:35 amIs there a way to search for articles that come from the entire network? Instead of just a Smashing Magazine-specific search?
Thanks,
cristi
March 19th, 2010 11:59 pmNot really. You may think your website, once is part of the so called “G-SmashingNetwork”, this would bring you traffic. You couldn’t be more wrong :)
I asked once the team, if by doing so and, or posting the G-SM on my website, would eventually drive traffic on to my website, and the answer was, “no, but hey, you would do a great service to the community”.
There you go, you have your answer. It’s business here, not a charity house. You should all remember just that!
Cheers :)
Sven Lennartz
April 1st, 2010 7:22 amsorry, but you didnt get the point. you need to be an accepted member to receive traffic. placing an icon dont get you anything.
Jeremy
April 10th, 2010 5:50 amWho cares about the traffic. It’s about the content. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/04/08/opinion-column-the-sad-state-of-the-web-design-community/
bipin karmacharya
March 22nd, 2010 8:10 pmGreat Members to be around.
10/10
zohaib
March 25th, 2010 10:36 amis there any fee or charges if our blog is approved to be the part of smashing magazine?
Sven Lennartz
April 1st, 2010 7:22 amthere are no fees.
Ben
April 9th, 2010 8:03 amJust submitted Psd-tutorial.com for review. It would be such an honour to be accepted.
Cheers, Ben
Design Earth
April 21st, 2010 5:13 amHope to be a part of it, when we’ll launch.
Sunny
May 5th, 2010 2:50 amhope to be part of is well i just need people to see my site. blog.fizwix.com
Hastimal Shah
May 5th, 2010 9:10 pmIt will be great a from me if i will be a part of your network.
I will apply soon to be part of your network.
Dennis
May 20th, 2010 5:07 amI have just submitted kaplang blog it would be great if you would consider us.
tgarrey
June 11th, 2010 2:45 amImpressive network of great websites! I subscribed to all (or almost).
Thank you very much!
Cosmin Negoita
June 13th, 2010 8:25 amIn my opinion, Smashing Magazine wouldn’t get more traffic than your site would get once it’s accepted. It’s simply because Smashing Mag is one of the first sites that a beginner is hearing about when starting to search tutorials . I strongly believe and admire that the guys here are looking to help both bloggers and people that are only looking to learn something.
Monk
June 17th, 2010 10:00 amfor when a new member in the network??
Joel
July 5th, 2010 1:02 amMy office sucks for music. When my Boss is in we listen to great music but most of the time my colleague has the speakers and plays utter shite the whole time. Not only does he play shite but he plays the exact same shite every bloody day.
I’m a musical person, but I’ve never loved silence more than when my boss comes in and turns off “eye of the tiger” for the 19th time.
*puts in his own headphones and ignores everyone else in the office*
Nitesh
July 16th, 2010 1:15 pmHey, I want to know which plugin you use for this network post, which directly open on their website url. I am a designer from India, and I learn many things from sm, please I will be very thankful if you tell me that plugin or some trick to show other website articles in your blog, like you doing in sm network…
Jal
July 31st, 2010 7:15 pmI don’t know what SM is using but I think you need this: Google AJAX FEED API. It will pull FEEDS (i.e. posts, excerpts) of any public blog/website and display it as html on any webpage you want. http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxfeeds/
Aisha
July 20th, 2010 3:57 amWow, so cute…just love it! thank you guys! you have to do very good job .
Muhammad Usman
August 15th, 2010 11:42 amgreat sharing dude, I was looking since long ago like this, that I can find web designing blogs where web designers meet … thanks
Dimi
August 18th, 2010 5:39 amHey guys, how long are you pausing the submission process? Was looking to submit our original feed from feedgrids.com/originals
Cheers
Charlie
August 23rd, 2010 8:32 pmAwesome list of sites, I just subscribed to a bunch of RSS feeds!
Ryan bollenbach
September 7th, 2010 1:04 pmHaha that’s such an amazing collection :).
Carlos Taborda
September 9th, 2010 8:12 amI have applied to join your network of blogs with my blog called VOSPE pronounced /vous-pi-/.
VOSPE is a blog that combines the best of design, coding and business material to help you improve your web apps & sites.
Thanks for reviewing my submission!
PsdDude
September 30th, 2010 12:40 amI want to submit my site psd-dude but i want to make some changes first to make sure i am accepted :) It will be great to join this list of amazing websites!
Dzinepress
November 2nd, 2010 1:54 amHi Friend, we would like to join your network also as our most of friends are listed, hope you will review on our request. thanks
Zdenek Zenger
November 24th, 2010 7:16 amGreat list! Thank you lot, looking forward for your stuff :o)
upen
January 18th, 2011 2:50 pmI will add my blog soon in smashing group.
Ayaz Malik
February 8th, 2011 1:54 pmHey, have submitted Designzzz hope to hear a positive response soon :)
engiguide
March 1st, 2011 12:17 amWhat is the procedure to joint or be a member of smashing magazine, also criteria ?
Jen K
June 16th, 2011 10:15 amI aspire to have enough quality content on my blog to become a member of the Smashing Network. Hoping that one day soon I can work on becoming an author here first.
laxmikant
August 1st, 2011 4:30 amI want to be a part of Smashing magazine Network.
Sir, My website is for Designer i.e. http://www.webdesignfact.com
Please give me a ticket of your Network.
thanx
Laxmikant
Smashing Media Customer Support
August 1st, 2011 8:31 amPlease send us your application through our contact form here http://www.smashingmagazine.com/contact/ and choose the subject network.
Jerrold Blew
August 25th, 2011 4:12 amI have not checked in here for a while because I thought it was getting boring, but the last several posts are great quality so I guess I¡¦ll add you back to my daily bloglist. You deserve it my friend :)
YASHODHAN DESHMUKH
September 16th, 2011 4:46 amfinally the network has updated
Shekhar
September 21st, 2011 3:08 amHi,
Is there any pre-requisites for approval on Smashing Network. I have just started out continue blogging and I want to be a part of it. My blog is: http://www.cssjunction.com
Plz suggest me if I could be a part of this most counted network.
Scott
February 3rd, 2012 1:35 amArgh why is there no link to the actual network posts on the mobile version of the site?!