Comments on: Website review: Time Off Magazine

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By: horus

horus — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:33:34 +0000

Look, if I can find out when the next gig is and read an occasional review- who cares what it looks like?

cheers

Horus

By: Ash

Ash — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:37:20 +0000

Agreed – Time Off’s website design and functionality is shit. However their mag is excellent!! Not just the quality of the writing but the design also.

Compare this to Scene, who have a nice sexy looking website, that works really well, but their mag is very poorly written, and lacks ANY design appeal.

Congratulations to RAVE for having the best website of all the ‘street press’ publications… unfortunatley, you are all in the business of publishing print media, and when you compare the magazines, Time Off is by far the most appealing.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:21:40 +0000

I love the mag and live on the south side of brissie where it used to be real hard to find. I see them around everywhere now and the content has improved.
Agreed that the Website needs work but i’m not impressed with Raves or Scenes websites either.

Personally i think Timeoff has been asleep for ages untill SPA took it over. The mag is everywhere now and is out on the streets before Breaky, the content is improving and this just means Scene and Rave have to improve aswell…I say competition is good and as a reader who reads all three mags myself and the local music scene is only going to benefit.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:02:15 +0000

TO + TOMB are blocked at work so I can’t get the full experience at the moment. But even in thumbnail form I’m wondering who was responsible for that colour scheme! And that Readership Section? Are they the new Sound Alliance?

It was interesting that last week’s ARIA cover was exactly the same as used for Drum Media (and presumably for the rest of SPA’s publications). (And taken by one of SPA’s Melbourne photographers, but of course that’s not taking away opportunities for Brisbane contributors…) The only thing that surprised me, especially considering that it didn’t have any authors listed, was that the ARIA lead story, whilst in the exactly the same format did actually have different words.

Also, around the time of the ‘Scene’ letter I was in Byron for a few days and also went up to Cairns. In Byron the new issue of TO hadn’t arrived by the time I left twon on Friday afternoon (there was a pile of the last 2 weeks’ editions there though). And despite having a few days in Cairns after flying in and also before flying out, at no time did I see any copies of TO anywhere. Guess it was just a one-off push for the benefit of the CAB audit.

Disclaimer: Rave is officially Brisbane’s best street press publication.

By: Meg

Meg — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:44:01 +0000

Aha, I have to watch my commentary re. Time Off as I have already raised the ire of the Editor and Assistant Editor with my general thoughts on Australian media culture, and by using the word “syndicated” where you used “bought out”.

There goes my future with Time Off, I guess. :D

I agree with you on all points. I don’t know what the fuck they’re doing considering they apparently have so much more money to throw around.

Barely-functional eyesore.

If you say that to anyone who contributes to Time Off though, you’ll likely be met with righteous sanctimony. Enjoy that.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:29:19 +0000

Time Off sucks the big one!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:25:21 +0000

The Time Off website is, simple put, just lazy. Why are albums rated with ‘H’s’ http://www.timeoff.com.au/html/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=32:album-reviews&catid=12:cd-reviews&Itemid=42 have ‘H’s instead of a star rating, it is because

By: Denis

Denis — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:25:40 +0000

The new Time Off website looks CHEAP and TACKY! Talk about design and presentation skills…