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Smashing Magazine is an online publication, catering primarily to web developers and web designers worldwide. It was launched in 2006 by Sven Lennartz and Vitaly Friedman, who were both part of the German-based Smashing Media AG at the time. The primary focus of the magazine is to provide valuable resources and insights into the web development community.In 2012, the magazine diversified its services through organizing web design conferences across Europe and North America. These events known as SmashingConf, were initiated by Vitaly Friedman and Marc Thiele. They offer a platform for practitioners to learn, interact, and network.Several sources have acknowledged Smashing Magazine's influence within the web development world. The Huffington Post ranks it as a leading platform for web developers to find job opportunities. The Founders of Smashing Magazine is Sven Lennartz, co-founder Vitaly Friedman Content Articles Smashing magazine has over 3 million monthly page views. Topics include web design, graphic design, and user experience. Conferences Smashing Magazine hosts four annual conferences, founded in 2012 by Marc Thiele and Vitaly Friedmann, that take place in New York City, San Francisco, Barcelona, and Freiburg. Each conference consists of two-day, single-track talks and workshops featuring prominent members of the industry discussing web design trends and insights. Notable speakers include Stefan Sagmeister, Jon Burgerman, Peter Sunde, and Daniel Burka.Library On November 27, 2012, Smashing Magazine launched their Smashing Library, containing more than 60 eBooks and videos on web design. The bundle provides new, curated content on design best practices, and coding techniques. The eBooks are available in PDF, EPUB, and Amazon Kindle. Most importantly, all the eBooks are DRM-free so access to these books will never expire.Newsletter Highlights of the magazine are collated bi-monthly to form an email newsletter. As of August 2022, the newsletter had over 176,000 subscribers. Awards and recognition In 2010, Smashing Magazine was the recipient of a Shorty Award for its notable contribution to the field of design. It also won the .net Awards in 2008 in the category "Best Blog". References External links Official website Smashing Library Smashing Conference Smashing Newsletter. Discover the Smashing Magazine popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Smashing Magazine books.

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  • Taming CSS Complexity synopsis, comments

    Taming CSS Complexity

    Smashing Magazine

    "Taming CSS Complexity" is a collection of 11 CSSpacked chapters that are all about performance and developerfriendly coding. In order to achieve a wellrounded coding experience, t...

  • Best of Smashing Magazine synopsis, comments

    Best of Smashing Magazine

    Smashing Magazine

    This Smashing eBook contains best ― most useful, most interesting or most inspiring ― articles about Web design and development that have been published on Smashing Magazine over t...

  • Projektowanie witryn internetowych User eXperience. Smashing Magazine synopsis, comments

    Projektowanie witryn internetowych User eXperience. Smashing Magazine

    Jesmond Allen & James Chudley

    Jeżeli Twój produkt nie wywrze odpowiedniego wrażenia na użytkowniku oraz nie będzie dla niego łatwy w obsłudze, nie masz szans odnieść sukcesu. Dlatego właśnie specjaliści od UX s...

  • Customizing WordPress synopsis, comments

    Customizing WordPress

    Smashing Magazine

    For a lot of people, WordPress is the entry into web development. And a lot of them don’t stop there. They want more control over their WordPress site, so customizing design and fu...

  • Work Smart, Live Healthy synopsis, comments

    Work Smart, Live Healthy

    Smashing Magazine

    Web design is more than a job. It’s a passion. However, keeping up with the immense pace at which the web industry is moving can feel quite intimidating at times and stress or even...

  • Responsive Web Design, Vol. 2 synopsis, comments

    Responsive Web Design, Vol. 2

    Smashing Magazine

    Responsive Web Design has evolved rapidly in the last few years and considering recent growth of mobile, the demands for responsive solutions are growing further. To help you prepa...

  • Art Direction for the Web synopsis, comments

    Art Direction for the Web

    Andy Clarke

    Modern web technologies like CSS Grid, Flexbox and Shapes have made it possible for us to implement print’s often distinctive designs, and the web’s now full of tutorials on how to...

  • Digital Adaptation synopsis, comments

    Digital Adaptation

    Paul Boag

    Nothing is more frustrating than stubborn management entangled in dated workflows and inefficient processes. That's why we created Digital Adaptation, a new practical book on how t...

  • The Sketch Handbook synopsis, comments

    The Sketch Handbook

    Christian Krammer

    If you're designing for the web today, you are probably using Sketch. We do, too, so we created The Sketch Handbook: our brand new Smashing book, filled with many practical example...

  • Behind the Scenes of Real-Life Projects synopsis, comments

    Behind the Scenes of Real-Life Projects

    Smashing Magazine

    Is there anything more insightful than learning about the workflows from fellow designers and developers, and what techniques they use? What made their projects a stunning success,...

  • Image Optimization synopsis, comments

    Image Optimization

    Addy Osmani

    Images have always been a key part of the web. Our brains are able to interpret images much faster than text, which is why highquality visuals drive conversions and user engagement...

  • Designing For Email synopsis, comments

    Designing For Email

    Smashing Magazine

    HTML email has the reputation of being a particularly tough design medium. Buggy email clients stripping out your CSS or the spammy image that onetomany emails not seldomly partake...

  • How To Create Selling E-Commerce Websites, Vol. 2 synopsis, comments

    How To Create Selling E-Commerce Websites, Vol. 2

    Smashing Magazine

    With more and more people reaching out for their smartphones and tablets to shop online, mobile ecommerce is set to reach $86 billion by 2016 a development that brings along entir...

  • Marketing Secrets for Web Designers synopsis, comments

    Marketing Secrets for Web Designers

    Smashing Magazine

    Marketing is an essential part of Web design and knowing its 101 helps designers see their design decisions in a broader context. As jumping in at the deep edge and simply starting...

  • Making It Right synopsis, comments

    Making It Right

    Rian van der Merwe

    Product management is one of the most exhausting, exhilarating, stressful, and rewarding careers out there. It’s not for the faint of heart. It’s for people who want to move mounta...

  • A Field Guide To User Research synopsis, comments

    A Field Guide To User Research

    Smashing Magazine

    User research is an effective strategy to gain a deeper understanding of your target audience a crucial step in order to choose efficient design solutions and build smart products...

  • Better Backbone Applications with MarionetteJS synopsis, comments

    Better Backbone Applications with MarionetteJS

    Joseph Zimmerman

    Backbone.js is a growing, popular library for building JavaScriptbased web applications in a wellstructured, organized and maintainable way, using patterns similar to MVC. If you a...

  • Inside Creative Minds synopsis, comments

    Inside Creative Minds

    Smashing Magazine

    The key to successful projects and products are the people behind them. Have you ever found yourself wondering how these thinkers and creators of the Web actually work, and how the...

  • Designing Mobile Apps synopsis, comments

    Designing Mobile Apps

    Smashing Magazine

    This eBook provides you with some useful tips and tricks, regardless of whether you're taking your first steps in app design or looking to adopt some best practices from industry p...

  • Content Strategy, Vol. 2 synopsis, comments

    Content Strategy, Vol. 2

    Smashing Magazine

    A brilliant design deserves brilliant content. Content that is intuitive, compelling and flexible. With the help of this eBook, you will learn to face the content challenge. Take i...

  • Podrecznik HTML5. Smashing Magazine. eBook ePub synopsis, comments

    Podrecznik HTML5. Smashing Magazine. eBook ePub

    Bill Sanders

    Jeśli skorzystasz z tej niezwykłej książki, będziesz mieć w zasięgu ręki całą wiedzę, której potrzebujesz, by zacząć działać! Ten podzielony na cztery części podręcznik pokaże Ci, ...

  • Form Design Patterns synopsis, comments

    Form Design Patterns

    Adam Silver

    Forms. It’s no coincidence that the word rhymes with “yawns” web forms are dull to code and even duller for your visitors to fill in. But without forms, the web would just be a li...

  • Mobile Web Development. Smashing Magazine synopsis, comments

    Mobile Web Development. Smashing Magazine

    G. Avola & Jon Raasch

    Kolejna książka z tej serii poświęcona jest w całości aplikacjom mobilnym. W trakcie lektury poznasz podstawy HTML5, CSS3 i JavaScriptu oraz zaznajomisz się z możliwościami, jakie ...

  • Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces synopsis, comments

    Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces

    Steven Hoober

    Mobile and touch are the new normal for computing, but there remain a lot of myths, rumors, errors, bias, and outofdate information on how portable touchscreens are used. Let’s cha...

  • Responsive Web Design synopsis, comments

    Responsive Web Design

    Smashing Magazine

    With the advent of responsive techniques, design patterns and offtheshelf components, responsive Web design has become more than a technique — but rather a new mindset th...

  • Business Considerations in WordPress Economy synopsis, comments

    Business Considerations in WordPress Economy

    Smashing Magazine

    WordPress is an economy in its own right. To really understand this, one has to know its history. In this eBook, you can find out about the economy that developed around this revol...

  • Redesign The Web. Smashing Magazine synopsis, comments

    Redesign The Web. Smashing Magazine

    Smashing Magazine

    Znajdziesz tu odpowiedzi na wiele kluczowych pytań. W trakcie lektury dowiesz się, jak do projektowania współczesnych stron internetowych podchodzą światowej sławy profesjonaliści....

  • Unlocking Innovation synopsis, comments

    Unlocking Innovation

    Smashing Magazine

    Some of us feel super creative while lying awake at 4.30 in the morning, while others generate idea after idea in the shower, or while taking a walk outside. How we find and feed i...

  • Typography Best Practices synopsis, comments

    Typography Best Practices

    Smashing Magazine

    Web design is not just about a flamboyant or simply beautiful website appearance. This book is about small but crucial details, in a specialty that is all about details. Whether ...

  • The Mobile Web Handbook synopsis, comments

    The Mobile Web Handbook

    Peter-Paul Koch

    Weird browser bugs, inconsistent CSS/JS support, performance issues, mobile fragmentation, device pixels, viewports, zooming, touch event cascade, pointer and click events and the ...

  • Legacy of Typography synopsis, comments

    Legacy of Typography

    Smashing Magazine

    Typography is everywhere. If you walk out the door, you will be hard pressed to find any element of our daily lives that doesn't involve or rely on typography. The prevalence of ty...

  • Inclusive Design Patterns synopsis, comments

    Inclusive Design Patterns

    Heydon Pickering

    We make inaccessible and unusable websites and apps all the time, but it’s not for lack of skill or talent. It’s just a case of doing things the wrong way. We try to build the best...