Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
When viewing PkDude Games forums for the first time I saw a lot of animation now animation isn't bad but for some people it could lag or slow down their computer/ your website load speed. However every image had it's own intentions. I also noticed that your forums isn't cluttered as some websites that I have seen in your genre. You offer forums for the most popular & played MMORPG games alive.
Pkdude Games also offers site advertising, Which is good in some cases however I don't really think your "genre" is an advertising field. Since your website isn't as active as other websites people may just register on your website just to advertise theirs. I would strongly suggest taking this out until you gain more active members.
(Scored 15/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
Pkdude Games layout is very unique. However I think that the "Main Boards" have way too many forums within it, Maybe by making some more child boards you can make the forum seem less cluttered in this section.
I also noticed that you allow guests to see that you have a VIP Lounge, Now that's okay as of right now I guess.. Because you didn't put the mod in to show topics. But I would strongly suggest making it only so admins & VIP can see the VIP section
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I didn't like how I couldn't see which topics are what. I know some phpbb forums do this now (Don't really know why) But you should fix this so guests know exactly what they are reading without having to go to every single post. This would probably give you more traffic and guests turning into members.
(Scored 14/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
Total posts 4208 | Total topics 784 | Total members 5591 | Our newest member Werewolf2301
Your statistics and activity are pretty decent. I would strongly suggest either leaving your computer onto your site at all times. To have guests see that someone is always on or tell your members to be a little bit more active. Even though I always saw one person on most people want to see a hand full of people on before they join a website & forums.
However you always had one person on at all times this included members & staff. This is very good but you maybe want to use ForumPromotion's package's to gain some more helpful and unique posts to up your posts so people think that your community is active and then hopefully it will become active
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Overall Your statistics and activity level are decent and I hope that you keep on going and reaching for the stars to gain more posts, And your website becomes an active one
🙂
(Scored 17/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
Pkdude Games has some very helpful staff as it seems. However as your demo account didn't work I couldn't see the staff amount ect.. So I cannot review you on that. But it looked as if by the posts you have a ton of staff and less members.
This is not GOOD in any kind of website as it makes the members seem like they need to compete just to get to staff and not have any "Friends" without the "staff" title. I strongly suggest maybe slowing down with promoting people to staff as of right now.
(Scored 10/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
There are a couple miss spelled sentences. Such as not putting a space after a question mark. And not making a capital letter after a period. These are minor things but make your website look a lot more professional
🙂 so I would strongly suggest fixing these minor problems.
In your announcement threads as an admin I strongly suggest making the post more appealing and less of the Hey! How are you doing! Great job! And more like the following
Example:
We just added a shop, Now you may use your points gathered by posting around our forums towards new and cool prizes. Some prizes include the following..
- Name change
- Music Player
That is more of a professional post that an admin of a site should make. It just makes the community think that you are really in it to win it
🙂. Other than that very nice job running your website.
(Scored 7/20)
Total Score - 63 (Out of 100)
Final Remarks:
I enjoyed your website's design, However like I said earlier into the review your small problems is the words describing the forum sections. I strongly suggest fixing the minor wording to the correct format.
Another thing which I didn't really list at the moment is the logo. I thought about how you could make the logo a bit more downwards. What I mean by that is the characters cut off when they could go a bit lower. Not really an issue fine how it is just thought of a way I think your forum could look a bit better
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What was most liked about the website/forums:
I really liked how every forum had it's own icon to represent visually what that forum section is about.
What was disliked most about the website/forums:
Too much animation as I liked the images, I don't think you need 99.7% of them to be animated
🙂 non animated icons are just as best as animated ones.
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to join my website?
I would join if the minor words are fixed, A long with the animated icons changed to standard images. As it makes my computer lag a long with the website.
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