Putting magazine on the web or blogsite

28 August, 2011 - 16:24 by Anne Ramsay
We are considering putting our mag up onto our blogsite. What would be the best way to save this from 'publisher' software? And will it work on a blogsite as opposed to a website? Are there any legal problems associated with the inclusion of adverts and also with including names eg names of contributors and names in Parish Register listings? As you will gather we have no experience of this side of things!
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Submitted by TrinityHouston on 31 August, 2011 - 18:46.
Ours is on the web, http://trinitychurchhouston.net/index.php?page=weekly-newsletter -- I set it up in Publisher and then use Publisher to convert to pdf format. The command is found in the file menu, and it is: "Publish as pdf . . . " When you click it you get a dialog box -- be sure that where it says "Optimize for:" that you select "Standard". The other choices are "Minimum size," "High Quality Printing", and "Commercial Press." Minimum size is small, but noticeably lower quality; high quality printing and commercial press will both result in very large documents that will take readers a long time to download. Standard size gives you a good quality document that is small enough to download easily ( for example, our 40 page magazine makes a standard pdf of about 3 MB).
Submitted by Allan Palmer on 24 October, 2011 - 10:35.
I have two reservations about putting our magazine on the web. (1) is there content that that should not be globally available? Do all contributors wants their details - name/address.phone no/email/photo made so publicly accessible? (2)don't fall into the trap of the magazine becoming the website, i.e. don't require people to download the magazine to view information about the coming minth - that should be accessible from the website. The magazine is designed as a printed publication - it is not designed to be read on the web. Om the other hand for subscribers who no longer live in the locality or have difficulty getting to chhurch regularly, giving them access to download magazines from the website is a good idea. It's also good for Visually Impaired People who may have problems reading a A5 size magazine with text in 11pt - on their PC they can enlarge as required... Perhaps use selected articles from the magazine to be uploaded to the website as HTML pages, but don't forget to edit them as appropriate - remove references to other pages in the magazine; and keep these "fresh" - don't leave the report on last year's Summer Fair there for years Just some rambling thoughts...
Submitted by Across Exmoor on 30 July, 2012 - 10:33.
I am interested as to whether anyone has considered the question asked in the original post of "Are there any legal problems associated with the inclusion of adverts?". I produce a PDF version for sending to our printers and could easily upload it to a website, but I'm not sure if we can include the advert pages.