This new section for WOA will spend a page or so explaining the very basics to a certain subject. This issue's Quick Topic is creating a diskmag. It's very easy. First of all, you need to decide what sort of a mag you want. Once you've done that, you need to decide how you'll lay out the mag. Like WOA, HTML, AmigaGuide, or custom programmed interface.
Next, choose a style for your articles. It's taken us 4 issues but we've finally chosen a style and we're going to stick to it. It may take you longer to decide upon a style, but you should stick to it once you've got it.
Monitoring sales can be difficult. We don't actually do it anymore but we used to have a form on our site which when you clicked the Download button, it sent an email to me, and I counted up the mails at the end of the issue and determined how many people had downloaded.
If you have a HTML online version, you could have a counter and piece of Javascript to check if a person had visited before and if they had, then it wouldn't increment the counter. If it was a new reader, it would.
Any comments, suggestions or ideas for future guides, send to me at claire.willis@trogsoft.freeserve.co.uk