AdminsHut - Review!

[Luke]

I'd be intersted in knowing your option in http://www.adminshut.com

We hit 10K two days ago so that's our latest milestone, incase you were wondering 😛

All comments valued!

 

[Mikey]

I clicked the link and instantly I get a little bubble in the top right, really small text.

" Download Tapatalk Notifier for Chrome to keep notified of new Private Messages from this forum. "

As a new first time visitor to your forum, I'm not interested in this as 1] I'm looking at the forum rather than being distracted by this and 2] I don't even have an account to recieve PM's on yet 😉 Maybe you should hide that for guests. I see "0 New comments" as a guest. Should this happen?


Your theme, it's very plain. I'm sorry to say, but when I visit your forum it looks a little like the phpbb default theme. I'm not smacked by the uniqueness of AdminsHut just based on the theme. Please note that I'm no phpbb theme designer but I've seen more creative themes than this one (sorry!).

As for forums and descriptions, very nice. The descriptions explain what the forums are about, they could be a little shorter but hey, not a big deal. Only thing I see that could be an issue is that the name of your first category appears to be "Admin Shut". Maybe a space is needed there?

Your log in bar is hiding from me at the moment. Oh, it's all the way down there at the bottom of the forum. Now, I'm not familiar with PHPBB forums, so maybe this is how they all are, but if it is I'd call it a very bad user experience.

Please don't take anything I've said to heart, or personally. Simply noting down what I'm seeing.

 

[Luke]

Ths is for your comments, I didn't even know that did the tapatalk thing, I'll remove that ASAP! Thanks 🙂

 

[GAF]

Your theme, it's very plain. I'm sorry to say, but when I visit your forum it looks a little like the phpbb default theme. I'm not smacked by the uniqueness of AdminsHut just based on the theme. Please note that I'm no phpbb theme designer but I've seen more creative themes than this one (sorry!).

As far as I am aware, ZINC was going to design a theme for the forums. Not 100% sure though.

As for forums and descriptions, very nice. The descriptions explain what the forums are about, they could be a little shorter but hey, not a big deal. Only thing I see that could be an issue is that the name of your first category appears to be "Admin Shut". Maybe a space is needed there?

From the Admin CP. It shows as AdminsHut, which is what it is supposed to be. I think it is just to do with the text that makes it looks strange.

Thanks for your comments though.

 

[Mikey]

You're welcome. Reading that back it could be interpreted as a little harsh. I like the concept 🙂

Try putting a space between Admins and Hut in the top category?

🙂