Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance
First off, I really love the colors. It is a nice color scheme and the colors plus the graphics flow well with the design. I also like the little information bubbles at the top. It looks like you have paid close attention to detail on the design of the forum. It is really nice and keeps the design feeling fresh and up-to-date.
I like the idea of becoming a premium user and helping Japan. (Japan needs to be capitalized in the bubble). That is a great combination, it gives incentive to donate. Pretty awesome idea.
All together, very nice theme. One of the best I have seen on a Xenforo forum. And as a note, the mobile version you have is amazing and will most likely decide whether a user would join your forum or not (considering the amount of smart phones used to browse the web now).
(Score: 18/20)
Site Layout
I want to say, the amount of forums you have on the index at the moment is perfect. It covers pretty much all webmastering topics and keeps it clean and simple. Many people get into the mistake of this, for example, in programming forums they would add programming language specific forums. That is good for larger communities.
The tag cloud at the bottom only promotes your forum on google (and I think is a way to get banned?). If it is, I'd take it off. Your site is really nice, don't get weird ideas from 'seo tricksters'. Focus on making your forum the best it can be.
I'd say move the status updates up a bit. It is another vital piece of your community, share it with the world! Encourage users to use it, it is handy and commonly used!
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(Scored 16/20)
Statistics and Activity
You have some great statistics! You have been open for a fairly good amount of time and you have nearly 30K posts. It is all true discussion too. That is a real contribution to your forum. You have a large and stable community. Future activity is based on how you model your forum right now.
You have great statistics and a rock hard community. You need to keep it up, your forum is definatly headed in the right direction!
(Scored 18/20)
Staff Moderation
You have a couple of moderators, and to be honest I think only two moderators and you would be fine. You don't have too much of an unruly community. So try not to look for anymore staff, it may get a bit stuffy.
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Your staff are doing a pretty good job but raise their professionalism. It will help them appeal more to the community.
(Scored 17/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism
You need to CTRL+F that whole page for japan. Japan needs to be capitalized and I don't see a time where it is grammatically correct. It is the small things that matter. Believe it or not some people may also be offended by that, and those could be possible members. Also as I said raise you and your staff's grammar and professionalism. You are the elite, top of the community. You run and represent the forum. Make sure people see your forum in the right light.
"To gain full access you must Register." - Register should be lower case.
Changing "Your Personal Feedback" to "Your Feedback" would make it feel more personal without saying personal.
On general chat: "post to your hearts content here". Post should be capitalized and there should be an apostrophe in hearts. It is the heart's content.
(Scored 13/20)
Total Score - 82/100
Final Remarks
Great design but you grammar needs work!
Strong Points
The design and community
Things to Improve
Spelling, Grammar and Staff Professionalism.
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