.net (magazine)

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This article is about the British ".net" magazine (published as web builder in the United States). It should not be confused with The 'Net, a short-lived American publication about internet trends.

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.net
Editor	Dan Oliver
Categories	Internet
Frequency	monthly
First Issue	1994
Company	Future Publishing
Country	United Kingdom
Language
Website	www.netmag.co.uk/
ISSN	unknown

.net is a monthly Internet magazine published in the UK by and published by Future Publishing. It is also sold under the name Web Builder in the USA. Founded in 1994 the magazine is published monthly but with an extra Summer or Winter special bringing the yearly total to 13. .net is aimed at professional and amateur web designers, 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.

Artwork is still a key part of the magazine, and it features various web designers' work in a dedicated section each month.

1 Content
2 Staff
3 Redesign
4 Footnotes
5 External links

[edit] Content

Usually issues contain 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.<ref>This has been subject ot controversy. In issue 154 (October 2006) a letter was published from Lee Crampton poining out that the image of a pile of O'reilly books used to advertise the prize could not actually be bought for £50. He said: It is akin to the car adverts that which say 'only £6,995' but the small text underneath states 'model shown £10,995. Following the letter (and from issue 154) .net now prints a disclaimer underneath the image noting: All these for £50? You must be joking! Books don't grow on trees. you know.</ref> 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 does not 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.

[edit] 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 Dan Oliver; art editor Chris Bates; production editor Shaun Weston; deputy editor Oliver Lindberg and staff writer Christian Hall; media editor Sam Cavender and site editor Jake Xu.

[edit] Redesign

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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<ref>Hi! Monkey was a regular column written by monkey from himonkey.net. Monkey was originally featured in the magazine’s The Brains Behind interview in October 2005 (issue 141). His subsequent columns highlighted monkey’s unique writing style as he expounded on a number of eclectic topics. It ran from issue 143 (December 2005) to issue 151 (July 2006) when the magazine was redesigned. Archives of his columns are hidden on monkey's site. </ref>

In issue 152, the Penny Forum<ref>Penny Forum is a short piece with any surreal or joke threads from the magazines forum</ref> 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.