Author: David Blankenship

Tablet Magazine Editions

Magazine iPad editions have been reserved for those publishers with iPad sponsors and strong digital media teams. Even with the best and brightest digital magazine design teams, the unique (non print magazine replica) iPad magazine edition apps have often been assisted by Adobe creative professionals that also want to see magazine publishers succeed in making new...

Joomla CMS for Magazine Website Content Management

Joomla can function as an excellent magazine CMS - content management system. As a leading open source magazine website publishing software tool, it's often one of the first magazine CMS tools used when starting a new publication website.   Joomla is also a top pick for magazine publishers with smaller digital media staff capabilities that do...

WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal Magazine Web CMS Software

Many of the magazine publisher CMS (content management systems) we select today are based on open source publisher web cms software. WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal open source magazine CMS software solutions have reached a level of publishing industry adoption that it’s not hard to find one of these platfoms in every magazine niche. While open source web content management systems contain “no cost” for the CMS software itself, it’s important to understand that there are still costs associated with the planning, design, development, and deployment of OS powered magazine websites. Open source solutions must also be managed, hosted and maintained.

iPad Magazine Editions – GET WIRED!

The Wired Magazine iPad Edition is certainly another benchmarking that all UI and UX design and developers will be looking at to determine just what works best for the rest of the magazine publishing industry that also wants to invest in the proper app strategy. It's not just the pricing model that excites us, it's the fact...

Digital Magazine iPad Editions

The digital magazine publishing iPad editions are making news. Meet some of the key digital magazine players presenting mobile editions for publishers as they introduce their iPad and general tablet edition visions. We are still in beta and version 1 territory, but it's exciting to see what the innovative digital magazine vendors have created to leverage...

iPad Magazine Advertising

The iPad is here and I've added to my original post with the iPad announcement with a follow up on the concept of finding iPad magazines.  The exciting thing about the magazine iPad Editions is not just limited to paid content, but the brilliance of the iPad magazine ads. The latest Popular Science iPad Edition has plenty...

Tablet Magazines

Tablet magazines will take a big step forward next month when the reality of an interactive iPad magazine can be held in your hands. Expensive? Yes, but then again so is creating and printing a print magazine. The magazine brand enjoys strong identity for the content or niche for which it is targeted. Interactive media will enhance...