.net is a monthly
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published in the
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by
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. Founded in 1994,
.net magazine is published every four weeks (13 issues per year). The magazine is aimed at professional and amateur web designers, and a significant proportion of its readers are full-time web developers. The front cover features artwork from different graphic designers. Digital art and designers are also catered for in the magazine, with a dedicated section called
/showcase.
.net is a monthly
InternetThe Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
magazineMagazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
published in the
UKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
by
Future PublishingFuture plc is an international special-interest media company. Future Publishing is its UK business, jointly based in Bath and London. The brand produces magazines, websites and events in a range of specialist sectors including games, technology, automotive, cycling, films and photography...
. Founded in 1994,
.net magazine is published every four weeks (13 issues per year). The magazine is aimed at professional and amateur web designers, and a significant proportion of its readers are full-time web developers. The front cover features artwork from different graphic designers. Digital art and designers are also catered for in the magazine, with a dedicated section called
/showcase. In January 2007, the first
.net podcast was launched, immediately placing at no.5 in the technology podcasts section of
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.
.net was previously sold under the name
Web Builder in the
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. In December 2006, it took on the name of
Practical Web Design in the wake of that particular publication's closure in the UK.
Artwork is still a key part of the magazine, and it features various web designers' work in a dedicated section each issue.
Content
Usually, each issue contains the following sections:
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. This section also includes
Penny Forum which publishes a joke or surreal thread from the magazines forums.
/feed:Taglined
choice cuts from across the web, feed is a combination of news and editorial about the Internet. For example
Industry News,
Book Reviews,
which is the best... and a column by a different industry professional each month. Also included in this section is
Net Gamer, which is one of the few parts of the magazine that doesn't deal with web development and the Internet.
The magazine's tutorials in
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and other web technologies are particularly popular, and in 2004, the tutorial section was moved from the main body of the magazine, dubbed
Web Builder, and bound separately. As a result,
.net was sold with
Web Builder as two magazines in the same package. However, due to negative response from the readership,
.net reintegrated the
Web Builder supplement.
Staff
.net is currently edited by Dan Oliver. Past editors include Paul Douglas, Dave Taylor, Richard Longhurst and Lisa Jones.
There are currently five full-time staff working on
.net magazine. These are editor Dan Oliver, art editor Simon Middleweek, operations editor Tom May, deputy editor Oliver Lindberg and designer Leanne O'Hara. Acting site editor as of issues 165 onwards is Jim McCauley. Regular writers include Craig Grannell, Elliot Jay Stocks, Paul Wyatt, Karl Hodge, Paul Hudson, Christian Hall and Gary Marshall.
Redesign
In August 2006 (Issue 152), the magazine was redesigned to include a new themed cover design and a new inner layout. Other changes were the addition of a new section at the back of the magazine called
Trash replacing comics by
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and the Hi! Monkey Soon after the redesign a column entitled
Web Drifter was introduced; written by
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, it usually contained issues and language considered vulgar by the readership, and it was subsequently cancelled.
In issue 152, the
Penny Forum section was removed but reinstated for issue 153 onwards due to large reader response to its removal. Another addition was
Web Pro in the latter half of the magazine. This is sectioned into several topics (web security, careers, search engine news and web hosting) and written by industry professionals. There is also a web
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section.
History
.net was compared to Cre@te online following its redesign. Crea@te was very much a style-led magazine, also produced by Future Publishing, but included technical articles as well, attempting to demonstrate the convergence of digital arts with software development.
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