Having a personal blog is like publishing my own diary for everybody to read. Whatever happened to privacy for diaries? But blogs nowadays are so much different from diaries. Personally, I blog to create stories, post photos, and more importantly, I blog to share information that could be helpful to anyone around the world.
My blog, as well as thousands of other blogs in the world wide web, is very much comparable to an online magazine. I wish I could actually make this blog's theme like that of a magazine with pages that my readers could digitally flip and dog-ear (bookmark, eh?).
Well, it's not very difficult to convert blogs into a digital magazine, there are actually a lot of available digital magazine software that we can purchase. Here are the basic features of a good digital magazine software:
Embed HTML, Flash, and Widgets
A good digital magazine software is far from just being an online magazine. It has moving images, flash animations, and different customized widgets that are not only beneficial to the publisher but will surely be a hit to the readers.
See Every Detail
A digital publishing solution is the ultimate tool to resolve those low-resolution texts and images that we normally see in printed magazines. A good page flip software would give the readers the best-quality images and high-resolution texts. Furthermore, it allows zooming in and zooming out with ease.
Share With Social Media Sites
Everybody's on Facebook, and a good read from your tablet or pc would normally be shared to social networking sites. With a digital magazine, an article, or the whole magazine, could be a trending topic on Facebook or Twitter in a matter of seconds by simply clicking the share buttons.
Search Within Your Publication
I've been through it all, looking for a certain page in a magazine only to find our that the Table of Contents indicate erroneous page numbers. Wouldn't it be great to search a text or keyword by simply pressing Ctrl+F or by simply typing it on a dedicated corner of a digital publication?
No Mess
My mother has around a thousand print magazines at home and it sure creates a big mess around the house. Some of these magazine have already been put up for recycling but print copies still accumulate overtime. What do we do with our digital magazine? We simply store them in our hard drive or cloud and there's simply no mess.
