The 'Box

[lawrawrrr]

Issuu is a fantastic platform for sharing interactive magazines, it also lets me keep track of stats, which is why I'll keep using it for now

[Chippiewill]

Issuu is a fantastic platform for sharing interactive magazines, it also lets me keep track of stats, which is why I'll keep using it for now

You can use a URL shortener to track stats going to PDFs. Issuu it really clunky.

[lawrawrrr]

Thank you for your feedback, but I really like Issuu and use it in every other journalism job I've done so it's what I know and what I'm going to stick with! Now we've got the plugin on the forum as well it's fairly OK for most people to read it I should think.

[FlyingJesus]

What's the interactive part don't you just click next page

[lawrawrrr]

Yes, that's generally what interactive means. There are also a lot of other cool features that I haven't managed to figure out what to do! It's simply... better than just looking at a blank document, that's why I love readers like this.

[FlyingJesus]

Well in that case a pdf is also interactive

[Chippiewill]

Yes, that's generally what interactive means. There are also a lot of other cool features that I haven't managed to figure out what to do! It's simply... better than just looking at a blank document, that's why I love readers like this.

I wasn't aware that without using issuu that the page would be blank.

It should be about the content, not the plugin with the gimmicky features. It's pretty annoying not being able to scroll through a digital document. If you have to improve upon 'just reading' the content then the issue isn't with how they're reading it but what they're reading.

[-Nick]

I love The Box! Is it September yet

Whats happening to August?

[nvrspk4]

I have experience as well with Issuu for documents that we presented for conferences we ran, it does a better job of portraying booklet-style content than Adobe and is less finicky about displaying on webpages, triggers less issues (no pun intended) from different browser configurations, etc. Designing a PDF is slightly different than designing a booklet-style paper and provides less flexibility as far as design options (limited to one page rather than a cross-page design).

Perhaps a plaintext version could be created for those who really don't like the frills? That way people who just hate the Issuu format they can get the information in another way, but it's stripped down enough that most people will still choose to use the nice-looking format? I'm sure you could find ways to track readership of the plaintext version using regular website tracking statistics.

[Drew]

Whats happening to August?

Just looking forward to the next issue