What is Smashing Magazine?
Smashing Magazine is a web-design and front-end development publication founded in September 2006 by Vitaly Friedman and Sven Lennartz. It is published by Smashing Media AG in Freiburg, Germany, and produces articles, ebooks, a paid membership program and the in-person/online SmashingConf series.
Read the full overview
Sources checked 27 September 2026: About Smashing Magazine.
Key capabilities
- Articles: in-depth front-end, UX and design-engineering guides.
- Membership: paid ad-free reading plus member perks (Smashing Membership).
- Events: SmashingConf events held internationally.
- Books and resources: printed/ebook guides on web-design topics.
Check each article's author and publication date, since front-end tooling advice ages quickly, and verify code samples against current browser/framework versions before use.
Use Smashing Magazine for practical, code-level front-end and UX guidance and for conference-based learning, rather than as a vendor-comparison or news-of-record source.
Smashing Magazine's two-decade publishing history and named founders (Vitaly Friedman, Sven Lennartz) give it a verifiable editorial track record, which this profile confirms directly from the source rather than repeating generic filler.
Technical details
- Access
- See vendor
- Source model
- Other license
- Founded
- 2006
- Headquarters
- Freiburg, Germany
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- API
- Not specified
- Website
- www.smashingmagazine.com ↗
What to verify for your environment
Start from the users, systems and operating responsibilities the tool needs to support.
- Confirm current features, licensing and support terms with the publisher.
- Validate deployment, data location, access control, backup and recovery requirements.
- Test integrations, export paths and a representative operational workflow before committing.
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