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 people who want to bring these messages to the web development and design community and write for us.

If you have an idea for an article or a book we’d love to hear from you.

Our articles reach around 3 million web developers, designers, programmers, 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, or any of our specialist sites, exposes you to a global audience of interested and passionate web professionals.

Assuming your article is accepted and meets our quality guidelines, we’ll gladly reward you for submitting great content. All articles are accompanied by an author bio, which can contain links to your website and/or social media platforms, 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. We mainly look for educational, informative and objective articles — so your post should steer away from promotional material (eg, plugging a piece of software) and cover a broad viewpoint. Articles should be from 500 to 1500 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.

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 Development

• CSS: CSS3, CSS frameworks (CSS-based, or CSS-generating), modern CSS techniques and practices
• HTML: HTML5, gaming, semantics, APIs, HTML email
• Front-end development in general
• Content management systems: Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, Concrete5, ExpressionEngine, Modx, etc
• Browsers: browser statistics, upgrades and developments, developing browser extensions, browser testing, browser compatibility
• JavaScript

Server-side Development

• Content management systems: Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, Concrete5, ExpressionEngine, Modx, etc
• eCommerce frameworks: Magento, Shopify, etc
• Foundation programming languages: Python, C, Java, Visual Basic, etc

Web Strategy

• Content strategy
• Design and development strategy: wireframing, planning, prototyping, proposals, usecases, test cases
• UX: user experience, usability testing

Web Business

• Business strategy: startups, small businesses, web consulting, freelancing, proposals and contracts, budgeting, clients, crowdsourcing
• SEO and SEM
• Traffic and analytics

General Web Tech

• Social media: Facebook app development, social media APIs, Twitter Bootstrap
• Web technology: news, developments, software, hosting
• Cloud computing

To submit an article on any of these topics, email the editor.

But hang on: what about PHP, Ruby, and all those cool server-side languages? What about web design? Mobile? That’s where the rest of the SitePoint network comes in. We’ve got dedicated sites for all those technologies, at:

• PHPMaster
• RubySource
• DesignFestival
• BuildMobile

Book Submissions

SitePoint publishes practical, solution-focused products for web professionals, distributed worldwide. We have our regular suite of SitePoint titles, such as jQuery: Novice to Ninja, and now the slimmed-down Jump Start series, focusing on niche technologies like CoffeeScript and Sinatra. We welcome proposals from potential book authors. 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 website
• 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.