Magazine Web Design

Publication web design and development is a major brand element of the modern magazine publication. The magazine web design provides the style and user experience to meet reader and advertiser expectations regardless of the the quality or presence of a print magazine offering.

Magazine website design defines the modern publication style and provides for digital presentation of the publication to a potentially much larger audience than the print design product.

Many publishers spend over $5000 per issue to design their print magazines. Yet the publication website design is often considered a small budget re-design each year. As advertisers seek placement on magazine websites, we are seeing strong interest and budgets for publication web design projects. Immediate value and the ability to immediately execute website advertising programs makes this a magazine brand element that must be designed for performance.

 

Magazine Web Design Services

Usability and user experience are important elements of the user interface (UI) design. A creative magazine website design can be implemented on most website content management system (CMS) solutions. Additional publisher web design and magazine style elements can be added as content workflow elements. Magazine theme and magazine web design templates for these major CMS publishing tools requires the magazine designer to understand the functional and web style element capabilities of the design.

Certain magazine website CMS software solutions are driven be several design theme templates and customizations to the web design and CMS modules occurs from within the CMS by the publisher website administrator.

HTML based publication websites do not have the database driven web publishing capabilities necessary to support an on-going magazine web publishing effort. Publishers that have not selected a publication CMS solution are advised to consider the benefits prior to designing a static website for their publication.

The magazine web design provides as much value as the selection of your cover to both readers and advertisers.  Invest in the publication website design based on the revenue elements the proper design should provide the moment the new web design is launched.  An experienced publication web design strategy professional will be involved in every step of the design process to insure navigation, user conversion, and overall publication aesthetics and style are present. Your new magazine web design must make you say “WOW!”