Delia Rahela Dan :) Media Diploma: Online Research

MAGAZINES: PART A

what were their original purposes’?

We bring you industry news and comment together with the very later from the major vehicle manufacturers ' trade parts programs.

Technical assistance product and pricing information, and details of all the current promotions and special offers - all designed to help your business and your costumers get the best in quality, service and value from original equipment parts.

Before the real advent of the internet, magazines served much greater purpose than they do now. Magazines would be my primary place for hardware and software news and reviews, along with tutorials and hints and tips

Magazines are collections of articles and images about diverse topics of popular interest and current events. Usually these articles are written by journalists or scholars and are geared toward the average adult. Magazines may cover very "serious" material, but usually do not offer consistently scholarly information.

• to find information or opinions about popular culture,

• to locate up-to-date information about current events,

• to read editorials and commentaries of popular interest, and

• to find articles by and for people who are not necessarily specialists.

It depends what kind of magazine we are talking about e.g.: fitness magazines purpose o it to make people understand staying fit its healthy, much more easier to live with a fit body.

We can also talk about what were the purposes of front cover which can be:

attraction

Get a sense of what the magazine is about

For decorations

To be different from other magazines

The Gentleman's Magazine, first published in 1731, in London, is considered to have been the first general-interest magazine. Edward Cave, who edited The Gentleman's Magazine under the pen name "Sylvanus Urban", was the first to use the term "magazine", on the analogy of a military storehouse of varied materiel, originally derived from the Arabic makhazin "storehouses".

What technologies were used to make magazines?

Type used to have to be set up manually - individual letter in racks - then eventually it became cast - now it is done by computer and everything including images are digitised removing the complicated process of colour separatoin, and the need for off-set litho processes of old. The biggest thing that fuelled this was the old printing unions which had a stranglehold on the industry were replaced by electricians for the new electronic techniques and disappeared along with the old processes - it also means that copy can be printed anywhere in the world (wherever's cheapest) or close to the point of distribution............

well, it used to be done by a compositor, or page makeup guy, the type face was laid out and blocked together... hot metal...

MAGAZINES: PART B

What technologies are currently used to make magazines?

In the past, QuarkXPress was the application of choice for pros, but in the last ten or fifteen years, Adobe has made a couple of excellent products that have been gaining popularity, such as Pagemaker, and it's replacement, InDesign.

These days we use a PC/Mac with either adobe or microsoft software... its a whole lot faster, and doesnt require any real skills...

How have magazines changed over the last 5-10 years?
Examples:

Magazines changed by the font coverts, different topics, pictures, technology that they using to make magazines. They still uses the Logo - name of the magazines that they started of with, that didn't change. Maybe the paper quality, colors, layouts, design.

Example PRIDE:

Since the launch of Pride magazine back in 1990, we have achieved numerous landmarks – from producing the first-ever UK monthly black publication, to becoming the foremost publisher of black magazines in Europe.
Pride Media has grown into what is now a fully integrated solutions and publication house specializing in a range of activities for clients who want to target the ethnic-minority community in all its complexities.