As always, however, the closer the submitted material is to being formally publishable, the better: submission in web-readable formatting, according to a set style sheet, of material already carefully edited and proof-read removes large burdens from editors. What is true for print text is even more true for visual images! Each image (for instance, a photograph or drawing) must be scanned, sized, colour corrected and then appropriately formatted (usually in JPEG) for maximum compression with acceptable quality. Additionally, page layout is NOT straightforward as with text: controlling placement of images usually requires the insertion of images into hidden tables, otherwise the images will "float" erratically on different browsers set at different viewing size settings. We have opted for an optimal setting of 600x800 pixels: slightly larger than the more common 480x640, it compensates for the considerable amount of screen territory consumed by web-browsers' navigation bars, etc.

We have assumed most material submitted will be still, photographic style images. But the rapid expansion of web-capacities indicate that with only a couple of years, satisfactory streaming video and sound will be popularly available, as more sophisticated animated presentations are now appearing. We remain open to, and encouraging of such formatting developments.

Initially, however, we propose a range of "design templates", each illustrated by our accompanying visual essays, hoping that most authors can more or less fit their submissions into one of the following options:

1. TEMPLATE 1: Mostly Text, with accompanying inserted illustrative images: "Nick Nixon and Continuing Documentary Photography"
2. TEMPLATE 2: Text and Images approximately equal, integrated on each page: "Angela and Li'l Hawk: A Canadian Native Single Mom in the Big City"
3. TEMPLATE 3: A separate Text essay, with a separate Series/Essay of Images, with or without titles: "Nicaragua"
4. TEMPLATE 4: Text and Image on the same page, with short "provoctive text": "Inner City Neighbours"
5. TEMPLATE 5: Alternating Text and Image, on alternating pages: "Western Samoa: Revisiting the Anthropological Wonderland of Margaret Mead"
6. TEMPLATE 6: Text fully integrated into Images: "The Yorkville Quarter"
7. TEMPLATE 7: Images composed of Text: Text Images: N/A

Of course, there will doubtlessly be more possibilities and developments which unfold as the journal develops. We welcome your comments and suggestions.

These illustrative visual essays are drawn from my own work. They attempt to offer models not only in the formal sense of templates, but also in the sense of how differing contents might be displayed. The Nicaraguan and Somoan essays (numbers 3 and 5) for instance, are more classically "anthropological", dealing with non-western, third-world societies. The materials in Templates 2 and 4 deal with contemporary urban issues in the "first world"; Template 1 crosses some of these boundaries, while being a more "academic" essay on a major contemporary documentary photographer. Template 6 presents some urban visual ethnography, but with a strong "aestheic design" orientation. Further discussion on such issues and dimensions is strongly encouraged.

On to the illustrative essays.