Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
I like the general look and feel of your forum, it looks nice however I think that your style that you are using is a bit to dark for the forum. It needs to be lighter because I can't see forum descriptions and such to well. I can see very clearly you have put a lot of effort into doing up your forum but a new style is needed. Apart from that though I do like the way you have the very nice and colourful headings to seperate each section that is a very good idea :great:
(Scored 16/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
Well I like the layout of the site, nothing is to crampt up and it is all nice looking however I don't like being presented by a login box as soon as I come to the forum, I think that might scare off potential members coming to your site. It's not a bad idea hvaing that there but making the login section smaller would help. Also your logo is decent looking, but then again it needs to have a couple of pixeles cutting off it. I like the layout of the forums though, it is neat and tidy and is not all over the place, looks professional
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(Scored 18/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
I have to say, your stats are great, it seems as if your forum is really active. However I think some members are dominating in post count. Some members have lots of posts and then some others don't have many which makes me think that some members are talking to much, which is not a bad thing, but the post count needs to be spread out abit. Overall the forum stats are good, the amount of members per posts so far is all right, you just need some more activity.
(Scored 17/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
From what I can see on your forum you don't have that many moderators, but the amount you have so far is ok because with a forum that is that size, you don't want moderators dominating it, which that is not the case here
🙂 I've had a look round and seen that pretty much all members are well bahaved and you seem to be doing all right, but one thing that sort of puzzled me is that in the forum rules topic you say obey the ProBoard support forum rules, thats fine however you don't actually provide a link to where they can be found, so you need to create your own or link to the ProBoard rules.
(Scored 15/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
Well a few members don't use capital letters in posts, however the general spelling and grammar of the users is good and I couldn't see any posts where by users were using slang or texting language, so it's all good at this end of things.
(Scored 19/20)
Total Score - 85 (Out of 100)
Final Remarks:
I like your forum, it's very nice, However you need to get an announcement forum made as you have conbined the welcome messages with the announcements from what I can see, for me that got confusing and I'm sure others have gotten/will get confused so it would help if you changed it. Also I think it would be best to have a new style on there, something with some more brighter colours or something, just so the text is easy to read because at the moment some bits are hard because of colour and are small, but having said that, the moderation, spelling and grammar and activity are really good, keep it up
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What was most liked about the website/forums:
I really do like the category names that you have, it brightens up the forum and it is also really easy to tell each section from each section, so good idea :great: I also like the fact that all forums seemed to be getting used, some forums have lots more posts then others but the posts are evened out which is good because it means everything is getting used :great:
What was disliked most about the website/forums:
Well like I have said above, the style; it was to dark for me and a bit dull. I'm not saying it's bad though, but your forum could do with some brithers colours to attract more members. The acitivty seems to be good, however you need some more members on your forum that are posting more as some members have loads of posts and some others have one or two. Oh and yeah, you need to get an announcement forum because keeping is welcome messages with announcements will just clutter the forum up.
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to join my website?
If you take all of my feedback and change round your forum with some of the things I've said then I think I might, but you would need a really stylish style
😉 Well done though, it looks as if you've worked real hard.
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