Feedback on the new issue of CST Magazine

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Dear Members,

We wish to receive feedback from you on current issue of magazine. We are trying to meet your requests and provide a balance of practical exercise articles with training theory on whole dimension of physical culturists: from strength and conditioning to nutrition to fitness to health modalities to martial art.

What do you think of the current issue?

What would you like to see in future: more of, less of, addition of?

Do you have any technical difficulties with format and do you prefer current layout? Would you prefer PDF to HTML? Flash? Printed format?

Magazine receives on average 200,000 accesses per hour, but you are our dedicated customers. We want to hear your voice please.

[Cilian McHugh]

I'm still worrking through what was a phenomenal issue, but something that springs to mind immediately is that the visuals have really improved.

Diagrams in Coach Sonnon's articles were really excellent this issue.
Those grey and blue charts that first appeared two or three issues back, read very clearly also.

[bob_stra]

> What do you think of the current issue?

IMHO Best issue to date, content wise.

> What would you like to see in future: more of, less of, addition of?

Most of what I can think of has been, in one way or another, already implemented. Having said that -

- Random fun facts
Bullet form, random interesting science facts. An example can be seen here http://www.skeptics.com.au/features/truefact.htm

Make 'em related to human body, nutrition etc with source included. Logistics are dubious - who would compile them? From what source? Simpler perhaps would be "Link of the month" - new, interesting website that relates to above topics.

- The glossary sheet suggested for this board. That would be very handy, but again, I wonder how this could be done without breaching copyright / giving away too much to free loaders etc.

- Book / video review section on topics of related interest (nutrition, biomechanics, learning etc).

These are minor suggestions and I think, difficult to consistantly implement given the nature of CST mag.

Frankly I think things are just dandy the way they are, content wise.

>Do you have any technical difficulties with format and do you prefer
>current layout?

Overall layout is good. The contents page always seem a little cluttered to me, but that's simply personal preference. (Blue text of white layout is somewhat glaring. Perhaps yellow text of black background?) Formatting within articles is very good - clean and simple. Please do not introduce fancy spinning logos, Flash etc.

> Would you prefer PDF to HTML?

No, I would not. PDF version*alongside* HTML might be nice, or perhaps a zipped HTML version for download. But not PDF stand alone.

[Scott Sonnon]

Great feedback!

[JasonE]

I would love to have the option to just print off a full copy of each issue. PDF or zipped HTML would be fine. If you want to reserve this for members, you could require people to log in before they print it, or make it an option here on the forums.

If there's already a simple way to print an entire issue, I've missed it.