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While trying to figure out the trends project and exactly what questions I wanted to ask after researching Health magazine, I realized that many magazines and their online versions are actually really different and, often times, have nothing to do with each other. I think this is really interesting because most of the time, both versions are completed with the same content, yet look nothing alike. The websites that I have looked at are all very easy to navigate, user-friendly, and visually enticing, yet it is just odd to me that these versions are not aimed to have a similar "look" to their print counter parts. As I started looking at the designs though, and the most basic differences, I think that mostly the differences have to do with the concept of page space and column use. It makes more sense when looking at it from this perspective because the designs are not going to follow the same basic formations when there is always simply one column on websites versus many varieties in magazines. Also, the column differences can account for many other differences, such as pull quotes and photograph placement. I had always noticed that the online versions of magazines didn't quite have the same feel as the magazines, yet now I think that it is almost impossible to create the same feel in completely different mediums that just don't allow for the same capabilities.