X-Ray Magazine

Cyndie Shaffstall is the former publisher and editor, and currently a contributing author of X-Ray Magazine, an online publication dedicated to the published word, and by proximity, desktop-publishing, design, electronic-content creation, pre-press, and printing.

X-Ray Magazine's content often leans toward the extensions, XTensions, Plug-ins, and utilities used by the readers — or that should be used. Within our pages, you will find stories on applications, and the extensible technology for applications, such as QuarkXPress®, InDesign®, Photoshop®, Illustrator®, Acrobat®, After Effects®, Director®, FreeHand®, PageMaker®, Painter®, Premiere®, Flash®, Quark Publishing System®, QuarkCopyDesk®, and QuarkXPress Server®.

The stories are published in English primarily, though many stories have been translated to Korean (through partner, InCube Technologies), Dutch, and French.

X-Ray Magazine, provides best-practices articles, step-by-step feature lessons, case studies, new-feature previews, new-product reviews, tips and tricks, and product shortcuts and secrets that can be used immediately to solve real-world problems in a workflow.

Bill Nyman, a tenured professor of graphic design at The College of New Jersey, said the publication is "Absolutely fantastic – X-Ray Return is smart, clean, professional – and super informative."

Creating SEO and SMO

Posted articles typically reach the top of page one of Google® in less than a week. Story topics range from tutorials to product reviews, and everything in between. The team behind X-Ray Magazine is a group of search-engine optimization specialists and we work diligently to hone those skills with each new posting. New feature stories are posted at least twice each week and with each new posting, a notice is sent to the subscriber list of nearly 50,000.