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| Creating A Digital Magazine |
Digital magazines are trending now! And indeed the future of digital magazines is brighter. However, when there are already numerous digital magazines are accessible in the market, it’s kind of tough to make your digital magazine stand out.
So, here I am coming up with 5 best practices for creating a digital magazine, which can be proved a life saver for you.
1) Zoom In and Zoom Out
It is a simple point, but extremely essential for both readers and providers, it’s simply not worth to create a digital magazine whose content is not viewable by the users. It should have the functionality to zoom in and zoom out as you can’t suppose everyone to possess 6/6 or 20/20 vision. Further, your content is supposed to be readable without zooming it.
2) Easy Navigation
A handy tip on this is, create an instructional page with explanation of accessible gestures and navigation. Nonetheless, make it simple and easy, do not confuse them and explain only the essential points, too many explanations can simply backfire.
3) Both Orientations
Again, this point may not seem like a rocket science, but users like reading the content which is available in both orientations i.e. portrait and landscape mode. Designing the content which is viewable in both orientations may cost you a little, but will prove fruitful in the long haul.
4) Allow Them to Save the Ones They (Users) Like
Avid readers typically have the habit to cut down the things which they like in the printed magazines, so chances are high that they will miss out that thing when they are going digital. Nevertheless, you can fulfill that thing greatly by making them available the tools like Forbes’ clipping tool which can really prove handy in this case.
5) Quick Loading
In this fast paced world nobody has the time to wait for anything and the same goes for the digital magazine reading. Many researchers have found that website which takes more than 3 seconds of time to load, the user would like to steer away from it and again the same goes for the digital magazine page loading time, it should be really quick and must not take more than 1 second to load the next page, the design and development of the magazine should be created with keeping in view of the page loading speed, so as to enhance the reading experience of the users.
So, here I am coming up with 5 best practices for creating a digital magazine, which can be proved a life saver for you.
1) Zoom In and Zoom Out
It is a simple point, but extremely essential for both readers and providers, it’s simply not worth to create a digital magazine whose content is not viewable by the users. It should have the functionality to zoom in and zoom out as you can’t suppose everyone to possess 6/6 or 20/20 vision. Further, your content is supposed to be readable without zooming it.
2) Easy Navigation
A handy tip on this is, create an instructional page with explanation of accessible gestures and navigation. Nonetheless, make it simple and easy, do not confuse them and explain only the essential points, too many explanations can simply backfire.
3) Both Orientations
Again, this point may not seem like a rocket science, but users like reading the content which is available in both orientations i.e. portrait and landscape mode. Designing the content which is viewable in both orientations may cost you a little, but will prove fruitful in the long haul.
4) Allow Them to Save the Ones They (Users) Like
Avid readers typically have the habit to cut down the things which they like in the printed magazines, so chances are high that they will miss out that thing when they are going digital. Nevertheless, you can fulfill that thing greatly by making them available the tools like Forbes’ clipping tool which can really prove handy in this case.
5) Quick Loading
In this fast paced world nobody has the time to wait for anything and the same goes for the digital magazine reading. Many researchers have found that website which takes more than 3 seconds of time to load, the user would like to steer away from it and again the same goes for the digital magazine page loading time, it should be really quick and must not take more than 1 second to load the next page, the design and development of the magazine should be created with keeping in view of the page loading speed, so as to enhance the reading experience of the users.
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