One can make simple things difficult, and writting a book the normal way just wasn’t a challenge enough for us. The list of contributors to the left testifies to that. We wanted to engage as many people as possible: writters, designer, illustrator, editors. In fact, internaly, we called this little project “The Community Book”. Nevertheless, the book was writen not by our readers but by a profesional team of authors. And troughout the whole process (from brain stroming to writting to putting the final touches on the layout) we included our audience in our plans: we queried people in the Smashing forum, collected suggestion and listened to your opinions. Of course all of this ado in advance was meant to stmulated your appetite, too. The result is what now sits in your hands, Smashing Magazine’s readers. We hope we did at least some things in it right.
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