Write For Us

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.

As a published SitePoint author, you’ll gain access to our authors’ extranet, which provides access to reader feedback and traffic statistics for the articles you’ve published on sitepoint.com. We’ll also send a report on your article’s performance one month after its publication.

We’re always interested in fresh content that’s relevant to web developers. If you have an idea for an article, download and read the SitePoint Submission Guidelines, which includes information on:

• submission requirements
• what we’re looking for
• assignment of rights
• payment terms
• how to submit your work

Of course, 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!

• MVC in ASP.NET
• What’s New in Rails 2.3
• Web App Security Basics: Things To Watch Out For
• Jaxer Tutorial
• Dedicated Server Hosting Plan Comparison
• Django Tutorial
• Beautiful Typography For Your Web Site (possibly including Typekit/@font-face)
• How To Create Video for the Web
• CakePHP Tutorial
• Typography: How To Do It Right
• Integrating ColdFusion 9 with Adobe AIR
• How To Create Drupal Themes
• Joomla Tutorial
• CodeIgniter Tutorial
• Zend Framework Tutorial
• jQuery Tutorial
• Creating Cool Stuff with Flex 3

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

Book Submissions

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.