Analysis of contents page

Alot of people disliked my original contents page as it was extremely childish and very bland, it followed the front covers yellow black and white colour scheme but it was very poor, i quickly scrapped the whole idea as of the many negative comments, i then looked at many content pages from music magazines like kerrang and NME and copied their layouts and schemes, it occured to me there was a patternt to mant magazines contents pages, i then got good feedback based upon my new contents page and many people said they felt it looked exactly like what they would expect to see in the contents section, the colours layout and spacing. i feel my contents page went very well.