50 Impressive Magazine and Newspaper Styled Web Designs

November 18, 2009 by Paul Andrew Design Style Series, Inspiration, Web Design, Web Inspiration

It is wrong to define the magazine style in web design as magazine style (does that make sense?). It should have, perhaps, been called newspaper or tabloid styled, it does have that look and feel. To define it, the magazine style within web design are traditionally web sites that are content heavy, by content I mean text and not images, that display there content in blocks or columns of headings with a small excerpt that leads to the full article.

Unlike other web design styles that can use larger images to compliment the design, Magazine is limited to being designed within the parameters that the content (namely, the text and the occasional thumbnail) dictates, and that is were the problem lies. How do you design a web site that is purely text and make it visual eye candy?

Carrying on with our Web Design Styles Series, today we are looking at successfully designed and impressive Magazine style web sites.

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http://www.paulogoode.com Paulo

An excellent collection, thank you SB. I’ve bookmarked and shall return for further inspiration later :)
http://www.circleboxblog.com/ Callum Chapman

Impressive stuff! I love Dollar Dreadful!
http://oreanarose.com Oreana

Good list! I would also add theglobeandmail.com :)
http://www.mlangella.com Manuela

Very very nice selection…I’ll write on it in my site too :)
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http://vector.laroouse.com esranull

very nice an excellent collection
Andrew

Great List i would also add http://www.readconvention.com
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http://fensonism.blogspot.com Fenson

Great examples. Would do good for inspiration later.
http://www.webdesignsouthyorkshire.com Web Design Sheffield

Great list, some very good sites here, Bookmarked for later!
Luis

You should take a look at argentinian El Diario Clarin (http://www.clarin.com/). Their design must be some 3 or 4 years old now and is still very good.
http://www.honourchick.com/blog honour chick

great designs… thxs 4 sharing this collection ;)
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http://www.smashingbuzz.com Smashing Buzz

excellent listings.
http://newsugar.co.uk NewSugar

Sweet! Cheers for the ad!!

^_^

PS. A sneak peak of NewSugar Issue 8! … http://is.gd/4UgzB
http://aditive.de Peter

it’s German, but one of my favourite websites we made;): http://bernd-troeger.de/
http://webdesignledger.com Henry Jones

Thanks for including the newly redesigned Web Design Ledger.
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http://www.w2point.com Web 2.0

Awesome collection… great work!
http://wpspecial.net Christos Chiotis

Stunning collection! So inspiring!
Thank you for gather these sites up, for us!
http://Www.okburo.ru Heller

What about http://www.kremlin.ru ?
http://www.FlyMediaProductions.com The FlyDuo

Great list! I would also add http://dalyfe.com – an urban lifestyle & culture magazine!
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Dhruba

http://www.meronepalma.com
http://newbloggertemplates.com/ NewBloggerTemplates

list of news sites with a very interesting design and I really like this site because is inspiring me to make something new..
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http://pelfusion.com PelFusion

i really like magazine styled web designs…nice compilation
http://www.smashingshare.com Waheed Akhtar

Awesome list. Thanks for sharing
http://www.admagazin.com Alex Neagu

CNN theme is the best. Arthemia is good enought (I use it on my blog)
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http://www.globalaidsalliance.org Cathy Lemp

Many thanks for including the Global AIDS Alliance website in your listing. Our designers were Blue State Digital!
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http://www.uxmag.com Jonathan Anderson

Hey, thanks for the mention! Since we’re focused on user experience, we hear a lot of very strong opinions about whether our site offers a good UX. It’s definitely hard to balance a focus on the content with the need for the site to be visually engaging.

Thanks!
-Jonathan Anderson
Managing Editor
UX Magazine (uxmag.com)
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http://www.howmuchisstamp.com/ hoW mUCh

Nice post man! I like especially the Dollar Dreadful
http://Maya-tv.com Mayamf

Guys, you forgot spin.com i like the large Font menu specially
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http://www.qwmagazine.co.uk Mohammed Ismail

A fantastic list of inspirational magazine layouts. My magazine (QW Magazine) will definitely find these useful when re-vamping the current site.

Thanks!
Ann7962

Its realy good .
Ann7962

Its realy good .
Ann7962

Hey, thanks for the mention! Since we’re focused on user experience, we
hear a lot of very strong opinions about whether our site offers a good
UX.
Ann7962

Hey, thanks for the mention! Since we’re focused on user experience, we
hear a lot of very strong opinions about whether our site offers a good
UX.
http://ivf.us Ornamex

How isn’t KISMET MAGAZINE HERE ?
It’s so wonderfully made!
metee

wctube
Asif khan

realy good .

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