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Magazine Design: Start your own magazine in less than 24hrs
Learn how to produce a magazine for no cost ready to provide a recurring income
Created byCraig Cook
Last updated 10/2015
English
What you'll learn
- Design magazine pages in indesign
- Avoid basic design mistakes when producing a magazine
- Source free quality content and images for magazine
- Produce finished magazine in a format acceptable to all major publishing platforms
- Choose the correct traffic method to drive visitors to magazine
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Course content
13 sections • 30 lectures • 1h 40m total length
Requirements
- You don't need anything apart from a PC. I will show you where to download the design software for a free 30 day trial. That is more than enough time to produce your first magazine.
Description
In this course you will learn the correct way to design a magazine from a profession magazine designer. Where to find great free content for your magazine legally - both images and words. Also, how to market you magazine and what platforms are available to publish your magazine online.
Learn to Produce a High Quality Magazine in this Comprehensive Course
Learn to design magazine pages in Indesign
Find best websites to source free content legally
How to market your magazine for maximum results
Learning how to design a magazine puts you in a very powerful position to earn a great income online. Online magazines are very under saturated. The apple newsstand has an estimated 5000 magazines. To give you a comparison their app store has 1.4 million apps. So now is the perfect time to grab your place on the newsstand.
Let me answer a few questions on publishing a magazine online....
Are there templates included with this course?
Yes, I have included a 24 page magazine template.
I have no idea what subject to create my magazine around can you help?
Yes, there is a module that explains the exact process I go through to find a good niche to create a magazine.
Do I need my own content?
No, I will show you where to download both free content and images.
Do I need to buy any software to produce the magazine?
No, I will show where to download software that has a free 30 day trial – more than enough time to produce your first magazine and get it earning money.
What about getting traffic to my magazine?
If you decide to upload to Apple newsstand they already have huge traffic. I will also show you methods I have used to get visitors to my magazine.
Are there any other costs?
No, you can publish your magazine for free. The only cost is if you choose to publish on apple Newsstand (costs $99). This isn't necessary although is a great choice of platform.
Do I need to be a designer?
No, you don't need to be a designer. The lessons are design for a total beginner.
What if I want to produce a printed magazine should I buy this course?
Yes, the principles are the exact same. Just follow the course and when comes to output you will send to the printers rather than an online publishing platform.
Why should I buy this course rather than other magazine design courses on Udemy?
This course is designed by a professional magazine designer. Other courses may show you how produce a magazine but if the instructor is not a magazine designer there will be basic design mistakes.
Content and Overview
This course contains over 25 lectures and 1 hour 30 minutes of content. It is designed for anyone, regardless of experience level, who wishes to produce a magazine from concept right through to publishing the magazine on an online platform.
Students will learn the basics of Indesign that will enable them to produce a high quality magazine.
Simply put at the end of the course you will be able to produce a magazine from start to finish.
You'll know how to find a great unsaturated niche, produce the magazine in Indesign and what publishing platform to release your magazine on. Also included with course is Indesign magazine templates that will give an excellent head start in producing your first magazine.
What am I going to get from this course?
- Over 1 hour and 30 minutes of content over 29 lectures
- How to find perfect niche to create your magazine around
- Learn magazine design from a profession magazine page designer
- Suitable for total beginners as you don't even need to own any software
- Free Indesign magazine templates
- Breaks the whole process down in to simple easy to understand steps
Who this course is for:
- The course is designed for people who would like to learn how to design a magazine from start to finish. This includes what software to use (has a free 30 day trial) and how to produce high quality magazine. You will learn how to avoid basic design mistakes that you can only learn from a magazine page designer. This course is NOT a dedicated indesign course. It covers the basics you need to design pages in indesign but is aimed more as an A-Z for someone that would like to produce their own magazine from start to finish. It takes you on a journey from the initial idea for a magazine right through to where to publish to get your first subscriber.