Wanting to see if iJoomla Magazine would help us.

We are designers trying to put up a Joomla-based monthly, archiveable by issue, searchable by categories/subcategories. Articles to be able to be placed in multiple categories, and searchable through all the past archived issues, as well as current

(I am trying to get my head around the whole thing) wondering if the homepage, or a pic of it from past issues could be on a archive page and the past issues could be read as a whole issue from their "homepage" and try to understand how to set up all the sections, categories, subcategories without going down too many "blind alleys" along the way, Thanks

Hi;

Thanks, I'll give it a shot

Hi,
 That's your Joomla!'s structure of sections and categories, not your iJoomla Magazine's magazines/issues.
In your case I suggest you to give an specific name to your Magazine (for exp. Turism), and name your issues with month/year.

Turism (magazine)
-Jan 08 (issue)
-Feb 08 (issue)
-Mar 08 (issue)
-.....

Inside every issue you can add articles from all your categories:

Turism (magazine)
-Jan 08 (issue)
--3 hotel's articles
--2 restaurant's articles
--4 fishing's articles
--....

If you have any doubts, please let us know.
Best regards,

Hi,
You can use Magazines and Issues. In your Issues you can use Headers in order to organize your content by categories.
At this point you can´t show the section/category on your issue page.
Best regards,