The Beat Featured In .net Magazine

0Rob Lewis • 3rd Aug 2006 • Portfolio, Web

Well, featured might be a little bit of a strong term to use, but I was very pleased to find out that The Beat has managed to make its way onto the pages of the latest issue of .net magazine.

A small thumbnail of the site is shown in Jason Walsh’s article, “Design tips that hit the mark“, under a section named “inspiration”:

It’s amazing what can be done with blogging software. Online literary magazine The Beat has squeezed and shoved Moveable Type until they came up with this fresh and professional-looking webzine.

Unfortunately, there’s no head-enlargening naming of yours truly in the magazine, and the details about the site are incorrect (the site is based on Wordpress, not Moveable Type, and it wasn’t shoved, it was gently caressed!), but it’s great to see some of my work being showcased like this.

.net was a magazine I used to read pretty much every month a few years ago (along with Internet Magazine, which I think eventually merged with .net), but I suspect like other readers, I was finding that most of the information it featured could be found on the web for free.

I guess the magazine industry as a whole is under a lot of pressure from the web, and it must be difficult to compete when there is so much information being passed around for nothing.

But .net appears to have recently undergone a bit of a renaissance (and a redesign), through bringing onboard the likes of Andy Budd, Andy Clarke and Molly Holzschlag as their advisory panel, looking at web standards more and perhaps taking more of a professional approach to web design (rather than writing for amateur designers).

It’s certainly now back on my radar, and not simply because it has featured my work!

This month’s issue also has the added bonus of coming with a mini Sitepoint CSS Anthology book, which, along with the mention for The Beat, goes someway to justifying me spending the whopping £5.99 on the magazine.