Noupe Has A New Owner: Smashing Magazine
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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 strongly in. Smashing Magazine will bring many exciting things to Noupe in the next few months as this relationship takes form. Right now, we are still finalizing the acquisition, making sure our current readers won’t be disappointed. Most importantly, I think most of you guys will be happy, because Smashing Magazine will continue to smash Web designers and developers with even more good stories and quality material.
The reason for this move is my personal situation: I have to take care of some issues right now, and I don’t want to compromise the quality of articles on Noupe or let the website slowly fade away. But stay tuned cause i’ll come back with something new in 2010. I love the Noupe community and will miss you all.
Also you will find me at my other blog DevSnippets.com, i will start putting more time and posts there very soon.
As a loyal reader of Noupe, you do not have to worry about anything. You won’t be disappointed, and you don’t have to be afraid of weird changes: Vitaly Friedman and Sven Lennartz of Smashing Magazine are not going to turn Noupe into something completely different. Noupe will remain a high-quality blog for designers and Web developers. In fact, from now on, even more time and resources will be invested in well-researched high-quality articles; Smashing Magazine will develop it further, doing its best to serve the global Web design community. And of course, Noupe readers will be able to help guide that development: your comments, feedback and interests will be listened to and taken into consideration.
Two years have passed since we launched. It actually feels longer than that sometimes because of how far the website and I have come. As most of you know, Noupe has been run by me, Noura Yehia, and at times over the past couple of years, I have been pushed to the edge by various growth spurts.
We’ve been busy bringing you tips, techniques and tutorials about anything related to Web Design. About 300 articles have been delivered to over 33,000 readers of our RSS feed. I am really happy to have such an intelligent audience.
A big “thank you” goes to:
Every one of you for your great suggestions and contributions. We wouldn’t have done it without you.
Cameron Chapman (our regular author), and Kawsar Ali, Steven Snell and Soh Tanaka for writing useful, quality posts for our readers.
Todd Garland of buysellads for getting us some of the biggest sponsors out there to fill all of our ad spots without any effort from my side. Thank you, Todd.
We really appreciate your continued support and understanding. Thanks so much for being a part of the Noupe community, and please continue to do so now and in the future.
Noura Yehia
Wow! Congrats!
Rad to see all your hard work paying big dividends
~ Aaron I
I agree, this is awesome! Congrats!
Wow, it is a big Big BIG NEWS, will see what SM will add more
Wow, just wow.
Good luck to you :)
Nice :)
I have always found Noupe to be very similar content to many Smashing Magazine topics.
Is there likely to be any change in focus?
It’s the reason I have been subscribed here. I love SM and NOUPE has been no different in quality.
Doesn’t seem to be any change in focus. The newest posts seem to be seriously kick ass.
Congrats on the sale Noura
Nooooooooooooo
Wow, big news indeed. I think a good decision though if you don’t have the time to put into it. And it couldn’t have gone to better guys.
Are we still going to see you around Noura? Are you moving on to anything else?
Thanks for running such a fantastic blog for so long and for your support of my own website & for being such a big part of the design community. Best of luck in whatever you do next.
Thanks Liam! You are right, it couldn’t have gone to better guys.
You will see me coming back very soon with a new idea that i hope will meet your expectations as Noupe did :)
Wowser – this is massive news Noura – congrats. Be interesting to see how this pans out!
Best wishes for you Noura. Thanks for providing your time and effort to keeping the web world an exciting learning experience.
@Andy Beard: We do have some nice ideas for Noupe and we’ll do our best to meet the expectations of Noupe readers. Any change in focus is rather unlikely. Noupe is and will be a high quality blog for designers and web developers.
congratulations, I hope it includes a big payday. Thanks for all your hard work.
I always love both sites :)
I always loved both sites :)
wow really big news, congrats!
Very exciting news! Can’t go wrong with SM!
Congrats Noura, well deserved. Wish you all the best in the future.
P.S.: Sorry for not coming back to you earlier, I guess we’re in the similar situation. Maybe some next time. Cheers.
Marko Prlji?
Nice baby!
I trust in Smashing Magazine and I think he will turn nope even better. Good luck!!
I wish for Noupe.com & Noura best wishes
and good chance to SM :D
Congrats to Noupe and wishing you the best of luck in the coming future as well.
Congratulations for the acquisition .. It would be really great to know that It was Smashing Magazine and Sure there will be a much more better content to help designers & developers ..
i love both ^_^
That’s awesome. Smashing Magazine is the best, but you are awesome too.
uau such an amazing announcement :) gratz!
Surprising news. Congrats to both sides! Interesting to see what kind of changes there will be, if any.
Oh ..
Congrats Smashing magazine , Noura and all the readers .
Good luck to both of you guys!
“…even more time and resources will be invested in well-researched high-quality articles; Smashing Magazine will develop it further…”
This is exactly what I fear!
Every time someone “devotes more resources” to a great work like this it becomes cluttered and loses focus. It becomes a business instead of a place for passions.
I have been following for a LONG time. And yes… I am nervous.
Also, I wish you the best. Thank you so much for your efforts!
@Kenn- that’s what i would think of if someone else other than SmashingMagazine acquired it.
Vitaly Friedman had confirmed to me, that Noupe will remain a high-quality blog as they will develop it further to meet our reader’s expectations.
No big changes will surprise you here if that’s what makes you nervous :)
Thank you. What scares me is losing this great personal touch that you have. It is amazing the connection you have with your readers. It is personal… not big business. And there IS a difference in feel when that changes.
But I’ll keep reading! I dig Sm as well… so I am hoping for the best and sure we’ll get it.
Again, thank you.
Wow, that is awesome! I wish you the best and thanks for providing us all with amazing content.
Wow, congrats to all involved!
I hope you will solve your issues very soon!
Wow, quite a shocker.
Glad to see someone of SM’s calibre is taking it over until you return.
Congratulations Noura,
Thank you so much for all your wonderful work these last years and I hope you are able to sort out what needs sorting.
I’m sure Smashing magazine bring some exciting stuff to the table.
Wow, awesome. Congrats guys !
Loved to hear that..
P.S: Expect SmashingMagazine to make Noupe look better ! :D
Wow! I’ve been following Noupe for such a long time, this is really big news – HUGE congratulations!
Hope it doesn’t share the destiny with wpdesigner.com. That acquisition was a HUGE mistake.
Great websites ..
wish you both the best of luck =D
I love both sites and wish you all the best for this great chance!
Both you people rock.
And after this aquisition, we gonna get more good content.
Hats Of !
Congrates……
Wow! Great news and congratulations to both of you, Noura & Smashing Mag. I just can’t wait to see how this will work :)
Congrats Noura. This is so great! Two of the best blogs coming together. Best of Luck
an excelent fusion!
good luck on your business dude!
we´ll be waiting for your return,
the best,
regards
Awesome work with the site Noupe, it’s been a pleasure working with you. I hope we can work together again some time soon. Cheers!
Welcome new owners Smashing Mag, we love you guys!
I hope they don’t redesign the site or make less quality posts. Althoug I’m happy for you guys, I would line to see good thing!
Noura,
I felt very happy for you as, at the end, this was something-somehow, you wanted.
For Noupe.com, it is great that SM acquired, it really couldn’t be any other better.
For the community, great to hear that you’re not quitting and will be coming with new projects.
Wishing huge success to both SM & you.
Congrats
Congratulations. I’m a regular reader of both sites. Keep up the good work guys!
Congratulations Noura, and to Smashing Magazine as well.
Congratulations guys to both Noupe and SM! This is wonderful, very excited to see what the future holds :)
Congrats! It was a pleasure being able to write for noupe~ I learned a lot from the reader feedback and I can definitely agree that the audience here are def sharp and talented. I am sure SM will keep things fresh and interesting as usual.
Wish you the best of Luck Noura, and I hope to see your next new project soon :-)
Congrats Noura. And goodluck.
Congrats! This is great news and definitely a win-win for both parties. Good luck in all you do!
@Noura: Best wishes to whatever you do. Will be looking forward to your comeback.
@SmashingMagazine: CONGRATULATIONS! :)
Congratulations. I look forward to see more interesting articles.
Anand
Wow, good luck to you.
for me ,, i think it’s a good news . thx.. i like those articles all
That’s awesome!
I haven’t been following your blog for a long time but from the day I got on, I got hooked.
You’ve done a wonderful job and I wish you the best for the future.
congrats ! and Good luck ! we are here to read more quality posts …
i love both sites, Smashing Mag. and Noupe, and its big news that they are one now
Thank you @Noura for your contribution.
Noupe.com was ( and i hope to remain ) one of my favorite blogs.
we are all happy for you and for the fact that Smashing Magazine took over … the 2 websites were both concerned on what the Internet has the best to offer. We hope we’ll hear news from you soon !
Oh no, I’m so sad.
Well….is great for you! Congrats but……
SM and Noupe deal with very similar issues, so what will happen to Noupe?
Will it be encompassed? Erased?
Nooooo, I prefer the ‘Noupe approach’!
I’m so sad.
I really didn’t saw this one coming, you surprised me big time!
But yes, Noupe has been great website, I’ve been following for really long time, but yes..I am sure Smashing Magazine can make it happen and keep delivering quality stuff here!
All I want to say, I hope you don’t disappear anywhere Noura and best wishes for you in future!
Congrats! http://www.moinid.com/files/2009/09/applause.gif
two blogging super powers are unite now, hope they’ll show more more creative impressions. Congrats you both giant
Congrats. Im expecting more quality articles now here,
Congratulation to Sm
WOW, I just got this news from Jacob Gube (Six Revisions) and I wanted to say congrats, Norah!
Sven and Vitaly are awesome so Noupe will stay on top in terms of quality so congrats again!
A hearty MOOOOO from the folks at Designmoo.com! Congrats!
Wow!!! Congrats…
wow! Big news!
Congrats,hope everything works out for the best.
Wow… So SmashingMagazine is growing.. You guys rock..
interesting. Congrats Noupe. Now dailyI have to visit you people website also :)
wow! Really good news,
I think everyone would be beneficial for… good luck!
Great to hear a success story, not many of them seem to be around these day. Congratulation on the deal and thank you for providing great content for the last two years!
Good luck with the new venture.
Congrats ! Hope your off to the pub for a beer !
Excellent news. Congrats to you all and can’t wait to see what becomes of both sites are they grow to become one of the best resource for designers and developers on the net!
Wow! I’m very glad that Noupe got in the best hands possible. Vitaly and Sven are doing an amazing job with SM, so I have no doubts that they will keep, if not improve, the Noupe quality. I am myself a huge fan of SmashingMagazine as well as Noupe, so it’s good news for me. :)
Hope that this will also help you resolve your private situation Noura, all the best with that! Looking forward to your next project.
Cheers for acquisition!
Good Luck with your new ventures. I hope it was a “Win-Win” deal. Thanks for the update.
Wow! Great news and a great partnership between two excellent sites that produce some of the most in depth posts on web design and development.
Congrats on the deal :)
Warm Congratulations!
Cool,
Congratulations !
Wow, this is one good news . I have been following Smashing Magazine as well as Noupe from a long time. A merger has limitless possibilities :)
Thanks
Congrats to both parties.
I like and follow both of the blogs. I would have not been very happy if Noupe would have been acquired by someone else.
Just want to say one thing, SM is more designer centric it would be good if SM make it somewhat more developer centric. It should be different than SM.
Kinda sad, yours was the one blog I aspired to be like but never achieved.
Good luck to you in the future and looking forward to hearing from you again.
Congrats to Smashing Magazine as well.
I hope this is the best thing
Congratz Nora :)
I love both the sites and visiting almost daily to these two sites.
Its a very big move and im expecting great resources in future.
Thank you and best wishes to Noura and SM . :)
Best of luck mate, you can’t go wrong with Smashing ;)
I’d like to add my congratulations!
I really look forward to seeing the site progress from here on!
congrats and wow, this is a great news. you gave us so much the last couple of months (years). have to send you a big thank you for providing great content and sharing news and giving me inspiration.
as @Archane wrote above me, its really great to hear a success story. youve done a wonderful job here and i wish you all the best for the future.
Response to people’s expectations may be a positive news
Congrats, and good luck to new owner :D
Still skeptical.
Already showing lack of update frequency.
Strike one.
SAD NEWS. When big fish eats smaller fishes its not a luck its a end of life. Noupe was always little different and now its gone……
Wow Wow Wow! Congrats…..! Exiting News…..
@Kenn: please give us some time to take care of all the details first. We will do our best to not disappoint Noupe’s readers, believe me.
Congrats to the three of you, it sounds like a great move for you all. If it’s in Smashing’s hands no doubt the quality of content will continue to be paramount.
Very Big News. But I wonder what articles SM have, Noupe will have same?
Wow, that’s news worth celebrating! Seeing as though I love both blogs, I’m anxious to see what is in store.
My two most favorite websites are collaborating :) that’s amazing :) good luck !
WOW! This is amazing – my two favorite blogs are teaming up! Can’t wait to see what’s going to happen.
They way I see it, Noura got some big cash to build another blog, since he will return with another blog and most the loyal fans will follow with.
Very best wishes to you …. and hope this new development works out well for all ….
Congratz Nora (Noupe)……….. :)
CONGRATS! both are awesome websites so ball out and get nogga!
Congrats Noura, Alef Mabrouk :) I am proud of u, I have posted about this news here http://arabcrunch.com/2009/10/smashing-magazine-acquired-the-popular-egyptian-blog-noupe.html ,
can you email me plz I wana interview you:
Hey, thats awesome news!! Congrats!!
Wow big news and congrats for u
What happened to the design of this blog, it used to look so good before?
Congratulations on both, it’s such a big news for design community.
Those who wait patiently will get the best. Efforts and sweats is finally paid. Anyway, we will miss the originality of noupe. For sure it will have some slight modification. Congrats and good luck!
WOW! Congrats and good luck! We will continue to give support and follow you regardless of whoever is acquiring noupe.
Congrats! I absolutely love the folks over at Smashing Magazine so this can only mean more greatness.
Cheers,
Mitch
Good luck to you guys!