Website Watch: PC Plus
Published Jan 31, 2008
One of the great, and now a little venerable, UK computer magazines, you expect it to have a good website and, true to form, the site's traditional webpage may be easy-on-the-eye but it hides a prodigious host of content within.
The left hand navigation begins with the 'Blog' followed by a 'News' section which links to a rolling list of current computer news. 'Reviews' links to a variety of extensive hardware and software reviews from the magazine that go back several years and cover a wide variety of items and programs.
Below that, the 'Downloads' section contains mostly free software, presumably previously featured in the magazine, while 'Tutorials' brings to life older but still relevant tutorials again from the magazine.
Continuing on down the left hand navigation you can read article from the PC Plus columnists, enter the PC Plus competition or check the contents of magazines going back several years.
Below this is the issue archive which contains the entire contents of each issue
Below this is the issue archive which usefully contains, in PDF format, the entire contents of each issue backwards in time from, when we looked, June 2005. This resource allows you to read old reviews and also to check old articles and follow old programming series, much of which, of course, is still relevant.
Continuing down past the magazine subscription service and shop you arrive at the link to the PC Plus forum which is worth more than a passing look particularly for solving program problems or as a linux forum.
At the bottom of the navigation is a link to an ezine implemented in flash. This looked promising although it proved so hard to navigate with our old machine that no further attempt was made to read it.
There is then a useful RSS feed that we added to our feed reader and a newsletter to subscribe to.
To justify its existence, a magazine website should be more than just a means of advertising the current issue and this website certainly is. Here you will find a great deal of information, reviews, opinions, tutorials and software that will help you both understand your computer better and enable you to use it to its full extent.
This website is well worth a bookmark and also a reserving of time for a proper look around.
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