Read around, you'll learn things.
Don't state facts like "that size is too big" please, because with the good reception we recieved I think we did a pretty good job. It's more about having fun creating and reading it, rather than spending ages on graphics, and an portrait page is much easier to work to over a landscape approach.
As you can probably tell from the page Iced designed (Pherelas' Page) he chose Graphics as a subject to study. The pages I designed aren't as good, most likely due to the fact that I chose Electronics over graphics. But then again, without those pages I designed, the pages would just be on a white background... Which is better? We have to work to a time limit, and if people don't have time to create graphics and layouts themselves then I put them into my own template, and everyone said they were pleased with what I had done with their text.
As the Editor, that is my job, to take what people have done and put that into something presentable in a magazine.
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Anyway besides form all that, I really like your cover. It looks really professional and just looks great in general :)
One thing I am slightly worried about however is the date of Oct '07, as I stated in one of the other threads,
I still havn't recieved a single review, and talking to many of the writers from last time, none are currently working on pages so a release in 10 days is looking rather unlikely unfortunately.
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On a side note, would you try to include the attatched image on your cover, as it is the first Photo of the Week winner and it deserves to be on there :)