Salon.com is an online liberal magazine. It focuses on delivering USA politics and reviews and articles on music, film, and books. This online magazine is designed in a tabloid layout. This magazine is consistent with its layout throughout the whole website. When visiting this website, you feel as if you are on a news website instead of a magazine’s website. Salon.com online magazine lacks pictures and is solely driven by its story.
When I think of a magazine I think of fascinating layouts and amazing ways of placing images. I think of dimensional pages and the usage of lots of colors. However, this magazine lacks colors, large pictures, and enjoyable layouts. I dislike how lengthy the threads are on this website. They don’t utilize links to navigate through different web pages; they just place them all on one page.
Online magazines do take away from the feeling of buying a magazine on a stand. Simply by removing a lot of the ads you lose a chunk of the excitement you had when opening a magazine. I remember buying Glamour magazine just to see what new fragrance and bags were available for the season. I don’t visit online magazine for this purpose anymore. When I visit a magazine online I am just interested in the images and brief articles.
Salon.com is almost identical to visiting a news website. For this, I believe that there should be something implemented for magazine websites to stay consistent with their “magazine feel” layout.
I completely agree with buying magazines in print form simply for the ads inside. I get Glamour in the mail each month and love to look through it to find the perfume ads. I chose to do my screen cast on Glamour and noticed that the website was VERY cluttered and boring. There is something about a hard copy magazine that can never be placed in my mind.
ReplyDeleteI agree- there is something about hard copy magazines. It's the same mind numbing, eyes glossed over, hours lost at a time experience that I have with Angry Birds. But I haven't felt that way about an online magazine yet.
ReplyDeleteI was really unimpressed with Salon.com. It definitely felt more like a newspaper than a magazine. Likewise, it felt like a hard copy newspaper rather than a website.
Salon.com was a big flop in my opinion.