It’s time for something new. Recently, we launched an eBook series. The first eBook was about Professional Web Design. And now our second eBook, brand new, is dedicated to Rules and Guidelines For Successful Freelancing. The book contains 260 pages and articles that have appeared here on Smashing Magazine as well as a couple [...]

After months of back-and-forth, we’re really happy to finally announce the addition of Drupal themes to the WooThemes family. Having launched our theme awesomeness on both ExpressionEngine & Tumblr since the beginning of the year, this Drupal release is just another step to take our designs & ideas to all of the popular CMS platforms. [...]

VaultPress, a service that will eventually launch to more than just a few beta testers, aims to help you manage and create automatic back-ups of your site. The service will be “paid,” meaning it won’t be free, but will provide peace of mind when it comes to the security of your blog – everything will [...]

I have been wondering for some time how you all manage your Twitter account(s) and how you use them with your blog. I realize that I have been pretty straight forward with how I have presented tips for using the service in the past, bringing together several variations of each method. However, I would like [...]

I am bringing you another great thing about Templatelite. A support forum for my themes has just been launched! As committed as before, I want you to have the least problem when using my themes and I pledge to make my themes one of the best in the industry. Hence, I have decided to offer [...]

Today, I have some very big news at Noupe. I am thrilled to announce that Noupe has been acquired by Smashing Magazine. This is certainly both a good move for Noupe and a benefit to our readers. I am very happy that Smashing Magazine wants to invest in growing the vision that I believe so [...]

FlashEff is an advanced Flash effects component (works both on Flash CS3 and Flash CS4, AS3.0) developed by JumpeyeComponents for easing the animation/transition process. It is also a collection of over 140 effect patterns (and growing) that enable cool transition effects and interactive actions on visual objects and texts. FlashEff can be fully used/customized from [...]

It’s competition time around here again… For a while now, I’ve had both wpressd.com & wpmag.com registered with the idea of using them for some kind of WordPress-related (duh!) project. The sad truth is however that I’ve never had enough time to invest in developing these domains into something that justifies the quality of the [...]

After a couple of months of beta-testing Smashing Magazine had officially launched their new Smashing Forum. So SM Forum will definitely be the best 2009 forum any web designer/developer will need to find, discuss or chat about their daily design issues. The main idea behind the forum is to provide our community with a place [...]

The bloggers behind the popular freelancing blog, Freelance Folder, have finally put together an impressive e-book about freelancing. The book is titled, The Unlimited Freelancer: Overcome freelance limits and unleash your true business potential. Being that Mason and James have done such an exceptional job with their website, I was excited to see what the [...]