Future of Magazine Style Site Designs
 

The future of magazine style site designs.

Most of you should be familiar with these type of sites of by now, examples: Met-Art, Hegre-Art, MC-Nudes, Watch4Beauty and so many more similar types.....

Theses examples create photo set issues capturing the look of a magazine style issue.

What about taking this approach to the next level. Such as designing a site to resemble the look and feel of a magazine. Take a look at this example.

websitemagazine.com/scripts/sub/digital.aspx?issue=1

What are you opinions on this. Do you feel this type of approach could work in the adult industry as a pay-site, or do you see flaws that could present potential problems? Thank you all!

I dunno if it's just me, but I feel more frustrated sitting at a "Page loading xx%" status notice rather than actually seeing the content rendering as it's downloaded.

I'm not sure the "turn the page" navigation method would work when a set could have 50 or 100 images.

It's an interesting concept, I would skim through some magazines like that for sure, not sure if I would watch porn in that manner, but i guess its something so new to me that I'm simply not used to it ;).
As everything else, anything has a potential, I'm thinking this project has more potential in mainstream than anything else. I would try to to get some attention to it from Forbes, Wired, Times, etc.
Good luck!

eh wack if you ask me.

something like iJoomla that has a magazine like presentation is probably more of a way to go.

If there was more text like an interview then it may work, but FEMJOY and the like really only have a basic description of the set. Also, how do you interview a popular model 20-30 times?

I have a pet hate for flash based sites anyway, because they break the standard browser navigation interface :) On the above site if you turn the page then click back, you end up at the previous site.

Yeah interesting, been tried plenty of times, but its going backwards using a magazine based layout when the internet has so much more to offer. Why revert back to a format which can only display 20 or so shots from a set when the internet has 'magazines' that allow you to browse thousands of images with a few clicks?

& yeah, like Rowan said, the browser has its own navigation - sites that try to reinvent the wheel often just end up making it harder to find what you need.

Could be too heavy indeed

I would have to only make an assumption that the load time of the site would be a day and forever, especially on dial up.

meh, it's cool and all and an interesting idea. but i don't think it's very "usable" or the future of anything.

For a paysite I am not crazy about it but I dont know why real magazines are not putting their old and current issues online using this type of display. They could charge $30 a month for access to all the old issues.