Website For Magazine?

If you're going to have a magazine on a website, there's a few things I'd say.
Lecool's presentation of the pages looks really slick, but won't bring much traffic in from searches, if that's what you want to do. I'd say have a seperate page for every article.

As Aidan Walsh hinted above, pdf's are probably a bad idea. They'd use more bandwidth than normal web content, so would cost you more money if you get popular. And, they're a clunky, ugly way of presenting content on a website.

I attempted publishing before myself, and I'd strongly advise a web-only approach. Printing costs are lethal. Also you'd need advertising to fund it, and advertising is worth shag all right now, and before that, there wasn't much of it in Ireland for small publications anyway.

The lads who did Mongerel magazine never got to quit the day job, and they were very good. The mag died.

There's more people reading Nialler9's music blog than there are reading Hot Press.

If anybody gets a full-time job on a new print publication, it's the person selling ads. With a website, you can use Google Adsense to take some of the load off, and you don't have deadlines.

Also, I noticed elsewhere that you were planning a Meath/Louth distribution. That's a wide area to cover with magazines, another reason to seriously consider web.

I know print is a lot sexier and everyone loves a cool-looking, alternative, magazine, but trust me on this one. Me and my partners had our hearts broken trying to meet costs for making an distributing our magazine, and never turned into a job for any of us. If we knew then what we know now, and had the web that we have now, we would have been all about the web.
It's cheaper, it provides an infinite canvas, people can hear the music instead of just reading about it, and if you throw in judicious use of social networking sites, you could be onto a winner.

Something to consider.