Well folks, I’m told some of my blog posts contain too much information and I should save the really good stuff for articles as blogs are meant to be quick and to the point, I definitely see the logic to this point of view so perhaps in the future I will try to keep the posts shorter and literally go down the route of just jotting down my thoughts in a somewhat less formal way than before.
Anyhow I just recently became a subscriber of .net magazine. It’s published in the UK but is available worldwide through http://www.netmag.co.uk/zine/subscribe. It covers a wide ranging set of topics about the Internet and technology in general (emphasis on the word general - these is no UK focus) such as web design & accessibility, web hosting, PHP and web development, software reviews, product reviews, SEO & Internet marketing, gaming, digital photography, Google, Yahoo and MSN etc. Although the title of the mag (.net) might fool you into thinking it’s about the extremely powerful Microsoft development framework, actually .net development doesn’t get any more coverage than any of the other topics (unless of course there’s a special feature or something like that) mentioned above and hundreds of other little ‘baby’ topics in between.
The July issue has a big focus on web accessibility and in partcular talks about ‘PAS 78′, which is a set of guidelines which attempts to clarify what in practical terms needs to be done to make a website accessible. I’m not sure if anyone has read this mag but my view of it is that it’s like a lot of my favourite ezines/newsletters combined into one and it’s great to be able to give those strained eyes a break from the computer screen and read something like this offline. Great read, I’m looking forward to the next edition already, I would however like to see somewhat more SEO/Internet marketing stuff though as reading quality content about this offline would certainly be a novelty.