Research: Website layouts for entertainment magazines

Here are some example websites from entertainment magazines. This is to give me an idea how different companies decide to represent their magazine and keep their brand identity.

Firstly, looking at these websites and other websites I now have some  ideas of how to plan mine on what is best to attract people to view the website.

Firstly, I have noticed that most websites have their masthead in the top left hand corner. This is always the same and never changes for their brand identity. These website have a clear navigation bar that will get you to different areas in the website. Also, on some websites the navigation bar follows down with you when you are scrolling.

Next, is social media links. Some websites are different with these as they sometimes but them right down the bottom of the homepage or some websites put them at the right top corner of the website so its easily to view and you can see this straight away. Some company websites also advertise a offer at the top of their homepage for the magazines. This is a way to attract customers to buy that magazine if they advertise it well.

Finally, entertainment magazine websites use large images to advertise the main feature of that day just like in a front cover of a magazine. Then if you scroll past the main feature the websites might have columns or rows to advertise other main feature. The further down you go they just use text or much smaller pictures to advertise other things.