diff --git a/recipes/smashing.recipe b/recipes/smashing.recipe
index 04436a05ef..a715ace821 100644
--- a/recipes/smashing.recipe
+++ b/recipes/smashing.recipe
@@ -1,50 +1,24 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env  python
-
-__license__   = 'GPL v3'
-__copyright__ = '2009, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
-'''
-www.smashingmagazine.com
-'''
-
+# vim:fileencoding=UTF-8:ts=4:sw=4:sta:et:sts=4:ai
 from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 
-class SmashingMagazine(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    title                 = 'Smashing Magazine'
-    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic'
-    description           = 'We smash you with the information that will make your life easier, really'
-    oldest_article        = 20
-    language              = 'en'
-    max_articles_per_feed = 100
-    no_stylesheets        = True
-    use_embedded_content  = False
-    publisher             = 'Smashing Magazine'
-    category              = 'news, web, IT, css, javascript, html'
-    encoding              = 'utf-8'
+class SmashingMagazine (BasicNewsRecipe):
+   __author__ = 'Marc Busqué <marc@lamarciana.com>'
+   __url__ = 'http://www.lamarciana.com'
+   __version__ = '1.0.1'
+   __license__   = 'GPL v3'
+   __copyright__ = '2012, Marc Busqué <marc@lamarciana.com>'
+   title = u'Smashing Magazine'
+   description = u'Founded in September 2006, Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers. Our aim is to inform our readers about the latest trends and techniques in Web development. We try to persuade you not with the quantity but with the quality of the information we present. Smashing Magazine is and always has been independent.'
+   language = 'en'
+   tags = 'web development, software'
+   oldest_article = 7
+   remove_empty_feeds = True
+   no_stylesheets = True
+   encoding = 'utf8'
+   cover_url = u'http://media.smashingmagazine.com/themes/smashingv4/images/logo.png'
+   remove_attributes = ['border', 'cellspacing', 'align', 'cellpadding', 'colspan', 'valign', 'vspace', 'hspace', 'alt', 'width', 'height', 'style']
+   extra_css = u'body div table:first-child {display: none;} img {max-width: 100%; display: block; margin: auto;}'
 
-    conversion_options = {
-                             'comments'    : description
-                            ,'tags'        : category
-                            ,'publisher'   : publisher
-                         }
-
-    keep_only_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'id':'leftcolumn'})]
-    remove_tags_after = dict(name='ul',attrs={'class':'social'})
-    remove_tags = [
-                    dict(name=['link','object'])
-                   ,dict(name='h1',attrs={'class':'logo'})
-                   ,dict(name='div',attrs={'id':'booklogosec'})
-                   ,dict(attrs={'src':'http://media2.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/images/the-smashing-book/smbook6.gif'})
-                  ]
-
-    feeds          = [(u'Articles', u'http://rss1.smashingmagazine.com/feed/')]
-
-    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
-        for iter in soup.findAll('div',attrs={'class':'leftframe'}):
-            it = iter.find('h1')
-            if it == None:
-               iter.extract()
-        for item in soup.findAll('img'):
-            oldParent = item.parent
-            if oldParent.name == 'a':
-               oldParent.name = 'div'
-        return soup
+   feeds = [
+         (u'Smashing Magazine', u'http://rss1.smashingmagazine.com/feed/'),
+         ]