Which program is good to make a magazine?

A good program to make a student magazine?

• I teach English in Japan, and I'm having my students make magazine articles with pictures and such. What program can I use to make something like that look good? I would prefer freeware stuff, but any suggestions are welcome. If anyone has even made a magazine type thing before and has suggestions, let me know!

• Answer:

  there is a great site called issu, i think it's issu.com. unfortunately you can't design the pages in the program but you can design it in Word or something, convert it to pdf, and then upload it to issue and it will turn your pages into a flip style magazine online, you can link to your magazine or even embed the actual magazine into other (your own) web pages. if you are more concerned with the design aspect i would try doing some searches for scrapbook web sites, they'll let you place photos and text wherever you want and save them for free, you might just not be able to change the dimensions of the pages.