How to make a magazine?

Question

I need to know step by step instructions.

Answer 1

first of all, do you want to make a magazine or a zine?

zines are a bit easier to produce and have a more "anything goes" design to them. write up your articles, collect your images, paste them to the pages, photocopy, fold and staple.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine

a magazine however is a bit more complicated. its not that easy to give you step by step instructions. there are several components to a magazine: cover, table of contents, editorials, departments and features. flip through some of you favorite magazines and pay close atention on how they are laid out. collect all of the articles etc...and images then you can use a program like inDesign, quark, applepages, or microsoft publisher to create the layout and put it all together.
emulate the layout of your favorite magazine to start off with. I've been working on a magazine myself for he better part of 8 months and that's with an editorial class under my belt.
here are some pages with good info. but it is important to pay attention to other magazines.
http://freelancewrite.about.com/od/faqsglossarystepbystep/f/magazine.htm
http://desktoppub.about.com/od/magazines/Magazines.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_publishing

hope this helped.