REVIEW
Wave Magazine is probably
the best selling English language publication
from Nepal. This best-selling magazine's
website also happens to one of the best
websites for a magazine we have ever seen
(one of the best in the world).
Design
& Navigation
Among the best aspects of
the website is the quality of its graphic
art. It also features the availability of
entire content of the magazine online. While
the basic navigation remains same, some
aspect of its graphic design changes changes
from one issue to the next. When visiting
the website, you are automatically forwarded
to current month's Url. For example if you
type http://www.wavemag.com.np in March
of 2003, you will be automatically forwarded
to http://www.wavemag.com.np/2003/march/
As said before, the
graphic design used in Wave's website are
world class. They are one of the best graphic
design arts I have ever seen. However, sometimes,
especially on the first page, Wave uses
excessive graphics. This might take a significant
time to load for lower end machines. The
website has a decent navigation feature
on the first page, but once you`ve loaded
a specific article, it does not have navigation
linking back to main page. We found it little
cumbersome to navigate, while other less
picky readers might say, "We can just
use back button". |