Monday, April 6, 2009

Critique of the SNReview

The SNReview is an online literary journal that was founded in 1999. It specializes in prose, poetry and essays. The journal can be found in a print edition as well as the online edition. The website for the journal is fairly straightforward and the articles can be read in either html format or pdf format.

What I like about this site is the simplicity of it. There is a menu on both sides of the screen. One side has issue information and the other has other information about the journal. You simply click on an issue and then click on the article you want to read and then choose whether to read it as an html file or as a pdf.

The only problem I have with the site is that it does not expand it's content for the online medium. What you can get online is identical to what you can get in print. There is very little interactivity for the online audience, which I believe is a must when using this medium. That said, the site is as good as it can be considering what it is trying to be. The design is simple and it is easy to read the articles and for that alone I would gladly submit my stuff to this journal.

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