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Online Magazine

Post by CarlD » 07 May 2009 12:46 pm

At work we have just finished putting together our first online magazine for a client based in Dubai. It's the launch issue and the next issue will be bigger. Anyway please have a look, i would like to have some feedback on what you guys think

http://cde.cerosmedia.com/rubberduckmag ... 820012.cde

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Re: Online Magazine

Post by 340GLT » 07 May 2009 01:03 pm

Thats quality mate, my only critiscism is i cant find a zoom???
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Re: Online Magazine

Post by volvosneverdie » 07 May 2009 01:04 pm

More boobs please.

Other than that, very impressed mate. :D
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Re: Online Magazine

Post by CarlD » 07 May 2009 01:32 pm

Cheers chaps.

To zoom in, click anywhere on the page that isn't interactive. I don't really like how that works but it's out of our control.

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Re: Online Magazine

Post by trabitom99 » 07 May 2009 01:34 pm

Nice, good work! Do the boobs go down well in Dubai then ;-) ?

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Re: Online Magazine

Post by CarlD » 07 May 2009 01:43 pm

trabitom99 wrote:Nice, good work! Do the boobs go down well in Dubai then ;-) ?

Tom

Me thinks not.

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Re: Online Magazine

Post by volvosneverdie » 07 May 2009 01:46 pm

CarlD wrote:
trabitom99 wrote:Nice, good work! Do the boobs go down well in Dubai then ;-) ?

Tom

Me thinks not.

Maybe a bit of alcohol might loosen them up a bit.......
hang on, i think i might be on track for a Dubai birching.

i'll get me coat. :)
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Re: Online Magazine

Post by MCHUDD » 07 May 2009 02:17 pm

Hi mate.
Spot on.That record shop brought back a few memories.
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Re: Online Magazine

Post by dubweiser666 » 07 May 2009 11:03 pm

I Like it, I think its a winner, some good foto's 2!, It's a really good idea and it looks like alot of work has been put into it!
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Post by pyro » 08 May 2009 10:38 pm

pretty sweet man, impressed.

monkeymag is also in the same style, quite amusing as well. though no cars :(

http://www.monkeymag.co.uk/
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Re: Online Magazine

Post by SteveP » 09 May 2009 03:19 pm

Really nicely done that. Is it the magazine company's own custom player? I assume it's flash based? Haven't seen anything like this before
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Re: Online Magazine

Post by CarlD » 09 May 2009 03:35 pm

SteveP wrote:Really nicely done that. Is it the magazine company's own custom player? I assume it's flash based? Haven't seen anything like this before

It's not the magazines own engine. It uses a system called ceros which does the actual page turning. To generate the magazine you upload the base of the mag as a PDF then upload a flash file which is overlaid over the top to drive all the interactive ellements.

Cheers again for the comments.

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Re: Online Magazine

Post by SteveP » 09 May 2009 03:53 pm

Ahh yes just been reading into the Ceros system, looks pretty slick apart from the inability to zoom in/out. Possibilities are endless then if it uses PDF's and flash, it's a nice looking end result! Shame it doesn't look like its open source ;)
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Re: Online Magazine

Post by trabitom99 » 09 May 2009 07:39 pm

SteveP wrote:Shame it doesn't look like its open source ;)
I'd be pretty interested as to what kind of sums are involved ...

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Re: Online Magazine

Post by CarlD » 12 Jun 2009 10:09 am

For anyone interested, issue 2 > http://cde.cerosmedia.com/1C4a266557e5684729.cde

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