Showcase your Expertise to the World!

SitePoint strives to be at the forefront of new ideas, emerging challenges, and cutting-edge technology on the Web. We are always looking to partner with writers to bring these messages to the web development community.

If you’ve got an idea for an article or a book we’d love to hear from you!

Our articles reach over 3 million web developers, designers, marketers, and site owners each month and our books are held in the highest regard by the industry. There’s no better way to get your name out there, build your freelance business, help your fellow developer, and become recognized in the web community than by writing for us.

Contribute Articles to sitepoint.com

sitepoint.com is one of the most popular sites for web professionals. Publishing an article on sitepoint.com exposes you to a global audience of interested and passionate web professionals.

SitePoint pays cash for every article it publishes, and we reward you for submitting great content. The more traffic that your article receives, the better you’ll get paid for it. Assuming your article is accepted and meets our quality guidelines, here’s how it works:

Retainer: US $100
Bonus payment:
- +$50 10,000 pageviews
- +$100 25,000 pageviews
- +$150 50,000 pageviews
- +$200 75,000 pageviews
- +$250 100,000 pageviews

All articles are accompanied by a full bio, which can contain links to your web site, providing valuable traffic and backlinks.

Article submissions should contain practical information for web designers or developers, clearly explained, ready to be implemented on their websites. The information should be current and timely, and presented in a friendly and helpful tone. Articles should be a minimum of 1,500 words in length, and should be submitted in plain text, Microsoft Word, or OpenOffice Document format.

If you have any questions about contributing content to SitePoint, email the editor (editor@sitepoint.com).

Currently Commissioning …

If you’re able to write an article about any of the following topics, we’d love to hear from you!

Client-side Topics

CSS frameworks (CSS-based, or CSS-generating)
modern CSS techniques & practices
CSS3
CSS/HTML/JavaScript for mobile devices (especially iPhone)
HTML5
HTML Email
microformats
RDFa
Raphael
Google Closure

Server-side Topics

PHP frameworks (CakePHP, CodeIgniter, symfony, ...)
content management systems (Wordpress, Django, Joomla, Expression Engine, ...)
ecommerce frameworks (Magento, Shopify, ...)
Ruby on Rails (tutorials, scalability, Case Studies)
identity (OAuth, Facebook connect, OpenID, Twitter, ...)
nginx web server (especially use with PHP)
web hosting (configuration, tools, reselling, ...)

Web Design Topics

Photoshop tips
web design trends
practical web design tutorials
web fonts and typography
design tips for developers

Business Topics

web site case studies
shopping cart options
customer management
managing transactions
pricing on the web
landing page design
website/retail integration

Article ideas and submissions should be sent to submit@sitepoint.com.

Book Submissions

SitePoint Books SitePoint publishes practical, solution-focused products for web professionals, which are carried in stores worldwide. We welcome proposals from potential SitePoint authors and, whether you are an experienced writer or not, our supportive editing team will help you to ensure that your book is of the highest quality.

We publish books and kits on topics that are likely to interest our audience (web designers and developers) and that:

Advocate best practice techniques
Lead the reader through practical examples
Provide working code for the reader’s web site
Make learning easy and fun

If you have a great idea for a book that you think we’d like, send your proposal (including, if possible, an outline, a description of your expertise, and why you think the book will sell) or sample content to us by emailing it to bookproposals@sitepoint.com. You’ll get a personal response and feedback on your proposal from one of our friendly editing team.