As if I don't have enough going on in my life right now, I've decided to start an online magazine that'll be hosted at my other domain zoombaby.net. Since it's a domain I use primarily for freelance development and demos, I thought I might put it to use. We've owned it for a couple years now, it seems and I finally want to put it to real use.
See, the difference between this magazine and a site like Prefix Magazine is that Zoombaby will be an actual magazine that you can print out if you like. It will also be navigable like a real magazine. For instance, it'll have page numbers and a relatively small number of hyperlinks. And you'll have to flip through pages--don't worry, there won't be any annoying flash. And there will issues with content that doesn't change! How un-bloggy!
My friend, Mark Miller, and I are the editors-in-chief. We've proposed four sections of the magazine:
- Featurettes
- You can think of this as "Featured Stories"
- Opinions/Editorials
- Reviews
- We've got movie reviews, book reviews, theater reviews, and music reviews
- Arts
- Featured art contributed by artists. We'll have poetry, photo essays, paintings, etc.
I'm really looking forward to it. For the first issue, we've got 15 or 16 content contributors. Even better, I won't be writing for the first issue. I'm going to work explicitly on the design/layout of the magazine. It's also going to be built upon the content management system I've written (that this site is being served on). It should be fun!
As always, I'll keep you updated.