To publish documents on the internet there are several possibilities: - A blog-shaped website can be created;
- Documents can be published as PDF on the internet.
- Online multimedia publications can be created in the form of a virtual magazine or book to browse with the mouse from the computer or with the finger from the tablet and smartphone.
Regarding these last two possibilities, we have different web applications both to publish PDFs on the internet, and to create interactive magazines made of text, images and videos and to publish them online .
The best sites to publish content that you want to share with other people in an elegant and professional way are three and they are really worth trying, at least to see their truly innovative graphic rendering.
1) Issuu is the most beautiful reading tool to see and use that I have ever encountered on the internet.
Who publishes on Issu is included in a collection that is divided according to the category of the topic, the vote of its readers and the global popularity. Since Issu is a very professional web platform, the documents or Ebooks that are found there are not rough writings but of people who care to make a good impression. Issuu allows you to read PDF files like a real magazine, a " Flip Book " and the pages are seen two by two . By clicking on a page you can zoom in for a more detailed view. while with the mouse you can browse the pages virtually, making the gesture and clicking on the corners. Probably the future of online newspapers will be very close to this graphic conception and on Issu a lot of Italian newspapers stand out that use the platform to publish independently from the current laws of publishing.
2) Calaméo is similar to Issuu, a web application to convert any type of document written on the computer (PDF, Word, Powerpoint, ODP etc.) into online multimedia magazines.
Magazines can then be browsed online.
3) Joomag is the number one site for publishing multimedia stories, ebooks, books, digital magazines, brochures and any other type of document made up of text and images.
Joomag, compared to the other two offers in the free plan many more features that instead Issuu and Calameo make only for those who pay a subscription.
4) Publitas is a site in Italian that wants to be the Youtube of self-produced magazines, to which you can subscribe for free, which allows you to upload PDF documents of any type online and which also allows you to protect published PDFs by removing the possibility of to be able to download them. The magazine is the digital one that is browsed with the mouse on a full screen.
5) For those who want something with less special but equally professional effects, the best site to publish PDF files is Scribd . I have already spoken twice about Scribd on Navigaweb.net, once about the best Ebook readers online and the second time on the best sites to find documents already made to read and download.
Scribd allows you to read PDF files in the traditional way on a page or in a style format similar to that of a normal book with two pages side by side. In the one-page view, reading becomes very pleasant thanks to a very gentle and fluid vertical scrolling effect. Anyone can upload a pdf file to Scribd and read it online. Optionally, this document can be made public and can thus be freely downloaded or paid for if the author offers one of his works for sale.
6) Another excellent space to publish your written works is Fliphtml5 which allows sharing and reading of all published files.
7) Yudu is an online service that converts PDF documents to publish them and view them online in a Flash reader.
8) SlideShare, born as an online Powerpoint, is another site where to publish digital documents that allows you to transfer, with an automatic tool, all the materials stored in Google docs, on SlideShare so as to make them searchable and truly public.
9) In addition to SlideShare, to be mentioned also Prezi, all online, among the best free alternatives to Powerpoint to create presentations.
10) MixBook, among the web apps to create digital photo albums, image collages and photo books to print
11) OpenZine, to create a real online digital magazine in the form of a magazine published on the internet and readable by everyone.
12) MyeBook is a free service to publish books on the internet.
The future of online newspapers is in web tools of this type and the sharing of documents, including business or work, will not continue for long through the mailing lists in my opinion.
