WebActive - Magazine

As a recent change from my regular Internet Magazine reading (Web User), I purchased Web Active, a spin-off from the highly acclaimed computer publication, Computer Active. The increase in price form 99p to £1.20, a rather steep 21% rise, made me rather dissatisfied resulting in my decision to purchase the competition, the magazine positioned beside Web User, Web Active. The price of £1.20 also applies to Web Active but issues are released monthly, not fortnightly and so in my opinion that saved me £1.20 for that particular month. The selling techniques of both publications are rather clever. Both use the same frontpage layout in advertising features on a ...  Read the complete review

Web-active is the sister magazine of the highly popular Computer-active. It is published monthly and costs the sum of 99 pence. Both magazines are published are published by the VNU group. Web-active alone sells an average of just over 40,000 copies a month. The latest issue of Web-active is 84 pages long (counting covers) of which around 12 pages are fully adverted, while at least two cover the contents of the magazine, another is the editorial, and another tells you what’s in the next issue. So all in all around 16 pages of the magazine are ‘wasted’ bringing the useful content down to 68 pages. However that said considering the magazine is ...  Read the complete review

Having mistakenly took the magazine called “WebUser” as by the publishers of “Computer Active”, who are VNU Business publications, I have now come across the REAL Internet related magazine from this company, the magazine is called “Web Active”. So now I’ve cleared that bit of useless information up, I’ll get on to reviewing the magazine. Having heard of this magazine, but never seen it on the shelves of any shops (there are actually one or two people writing into the letters page complaining of its unavailability), I was eager to see what all the fuss was about. Whilst out shopping the other day, I came ...  Read the complete review

Billed as the friendly guide to the internet, Web Active is another new web magazine. Before this one came along all we had were rude, sociopathic magazines that would spit in your drink when you weren`t looking. It begins with four pages of net news, all in bitesize pieces. There`s a jargon buster, giving definitions of words such as beta and MP3. This is followed by the top ten sites, this month spooky ones, each with a short description but no rating. It includes sites on aliens, myths, the occult and conspiracy theories, X-files stuff rather than just horror. Surf`s up is a regular piece profiling a couple of readers and their favourite bookmarks. ...  Read the complete review

VNU Publications must have seen my title for my 'Web User' review (The Computeractive of the Internet) and decided to take me up on it. Either that or they just decided that they would apply their talents to an Internet related magazine that would be useful to all users of the Internet. (I know I waffle a lot, but it was worth a try!) Issue 1 went on sale on May 31st at the very attractive price of 75p! Webactive is to be published on a monthly basis, rather than the 2 weekly basis that it's sister magazine Computeractive is. You can check out the website at: http://www.webactive.vnunet.com After reading issue 1 from cover to ...  Read the complete review