Now for the First Time on a Site of Its Own!! This is my computer magazine "jump" site, or navigation site. Not all magazines are "true" computer magazines, but all offer extensive coverage of computers in line with what is the actual focus of the publication. As an avid reader of these publications, I often go to the associated Web sites to get further information or to look up past issues. To facillitate this, I built this site as an online bookmark file to go to any one that I want. Since it is online, it provides the same convenience to others.

    This site heralds back to a site I built over four years ago that started this chronicling of the Web sites of computer magazines. The original was just a part of a single page site that was itself a bookmark file. It has grown into a site by itself instead of merely being a piece of one. I have reason to believe that it is the largest site dedicated to this subject. I do owe thanks to others for providing some of the sites outside the US and not produced by one of the major publishers, just take a look at the German or Polish sites to see what I mean. Yeah, without help I would never have found all those; still cannot read most of them beacause of the language skills involved, but they are represented here. Some may not load on different computers because the fonts for display are not there, or will send the browser to a site to download the necessary font needed to display the page. It requires between thirty and fifty Mbytes of font files to display all the available sites.

    The North American page is by far the largest and easiest to maintain as far as the research into the publishers is concerned. The page size makes it more of a chore to update just because of the sheer volume of links. Many times the publications will change their site addresses, or the magazine will change names. Multiple links remain for as long as I know that they work, so some magazines may have more than one listing. Other listings look the same but are two separate listings of publications by two different publishers.

    The site continues to be "a work in progress" because new magazines are constantly being published, magazines change names and focus, magazines move from the print and online world to just the online world, magazines go out of print, and magazines change the URL of their addresses. All of the above exist here. They cover many different areas of the gamut possible for inclusion here. The only requirement to inclusion is simply to cover some area of technology and computers as their main focus.

    Many of the large publishers continue to add sites to their vast array of information, each covering a different area and all tied together at one or more points to form a portal for that particular company. The portal listings comprise the newest part of this site and is heavily "Under Construction" at this time. It will have the "Big Three", IDG, CMP and ZD, and others that most people may not know exist.

    I truly hope that you enjoy, and find it useful. I am interested in whether visitors think it would find it useful to have the North American publications broken down into areas of focus, such as graphics, games, business, IT, etc. That task potentially occupies the future direction of additions to this site after the portal area approaches completion. There is a site that does this, though it lists far fewer choices in its content. If I could remember the URL, I would link to it. I will when I find it again; it is a commercial site done by a principal of that company, which makes site management tools.

    JavaScript floating menus are the final part of this project. Load speed always concerns me and the longer pages already take some time to render because of the formatting tricks used. Faster processors will render the pages quicker. Since the graphics are kept to small sizes, and size declarations offer as much rendering assistance as possible, the formatting is the limiting factor. All parts of the site are checked on slower machines and validated for conformance.