.net (magazine)
Encyclopedia
.net is a monthly Internet
magazine
published in the UK
by Future Publishing
. 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 iTunes
.
.net was previously sold under the name Web Builder in the USA
. 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.
/inbox:Letters from magazine readers.. A Mail of the Month is chosen by the editorial staff that wins a £50 book voucher for books by technology publisher O'Reilly
. 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 PHP
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.
There are currently five full-time staff working on .net magazine. These are editor-in-chief Dan Oliver, deputy editor Tom May, art editor Rob Bowen, staff writer Tanya Combrinck, and editor of netmagazine.com Oliver Lindberg. Regular writers include Craig Grannell, Paul Wyatt, Bruce Lawson, Jenn Lukas, Karl Hodge, Mark Penfold and Gary Marshall.
, 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 FAQ
section.
Internet
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magazine
Magazine
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published in the UK
United Kingdom
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by Future Publishing
Future Publishing
Future plc is a media company; in 2006, it was the sixth-largest in the United Kingdom. It publishes more than 150 magazines in fields such as video games, technology, automotive, cycling, films and photography. Future is the official magazine company of all three major games console manufacturers...
. 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 iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
.
.net was previously sold under the name Web Builder in the USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. 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:/inbox:Letters from magazine readers.. A Mail of the Month is chosen by the editorial staff that wins a £50 book voucher for books by technology publisher O'Reilly
O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and Web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics...
. 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 PHP
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
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-in-chief Dan Oliver, deputy editor Tom May, art editor Rob Bowen, staff writer Tanya Combrinck, and editor of netmagazine.com Oliver Lindberg. Regular writers include Craig Grannell, Paul Wyatt, Bruce Lawson, Jenn Lukas, Karl Hodge, Mark Penfold 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 drew and the Hi! Monkey Soon after the redesign a column entitled Web Drifter was introduced; written by Martin SargentMartin Sargent
Martin Paul Sargent is an American television personality and was co-host of the This WEEK in FUN podcast with Sarah Lane...
, 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 FAQ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions are listed questions and answers, all supposed to be commonly asked in some context, and pertaining to a particular topic. "FAQ" is usually pronounced as an initialism rather than an acronym, but an acronym form does exist. Since the acronym FAQ originated in textual...
section.