If you can’t beat them
I’ve been tinkering with the site. I threw out my ideals and ideas of a clean and super-simple front page and gone with a more standard set-up. What’s new?
A blog layout. Bosh. All the wordy posts in one big pile, unless you want to browse a section: click on the tiny section-of-choice heading above posts to do that. As always, click on the logo to head home.
Comments. In the print mag, the letters page was called “comms”, short for “communications” so that’s what the comments are titled, short for “comments”. Handy, that. Until there are new things to make your mark on, go back and have your say about the entries that previously had you thinking without means
—Chris Noble, 11 January 2011
… the last printed issue of Level was on the shelves in finer newsagents and the WH Smiths that we’d bribed.
Here’s a slideshow of that issue. Some of the ads are rough scans out of the mag, and some body text might be flowed slightly differently thanks to the Xpress-to-InDesign conversion, but it’s pretty well all there as was a decade ago.
Man, we had shitty scanners. (And even worse ad sales.)
—Chris Noble, 22 October 2010
As software is continually being overhauled and upgraded, the stuff created on the old stuff looks less like itself when opened on the new stuff. With that in mind, I ported the old Level covers from the original QuarkXpress 4 files to future-proofed Adobe Illustrator CS3 EPSs before it was too late. Like someone recording their vinyl onto MP3, only without the disdain from stylus-fondlers. While I was at it, I made a slideshow of the covers for anyone who’s interested.
Also, for added functionality, this website now has a contents page, available via the link at bottom left.
—Chris Noble, 16 September 2009
This is not a website that blows its own trumpet, but if you need another reason to add it to your iPhone’s home screen, now you will get this cute little icon featuring Tom Oldham’s 1999 photo of Nina Persson from the cover of Level issue 01.
The site works perfectly on the iPhone (apart from the ‘latest entry’ hovering-trick on the section links above) so, if you haven’t already, that makes two more reasons to invest in one.
—Chris Noble, 13 August 2009
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