All feedback welcome!

[VGDistrict]

Hey, all! Please check out http://vgdistrict.com/forums/ and lemme get any comments or suggestions you have on the forum in general or the layout.

I guess I'll explain a few things myself before people reply here. The theme was made by me a few weeks ago to match the drafts for the rest of the site and some future features outside of the forums. It was really well received by the members, but I'd like some outside opinions. I'm very pro-white when it comes to layouts, especially because I hate the amateur-feel that gaming forums often give off when they use the ever-so-common black/dark gray as a base. You may also notice quite a bit if simplicity. I tried to make everything as simple as I could without making it too "dull" as well. I just noticed there was so much extra clutter with phpBB and many other forums, so I tried to focus on what the users really wanna use/see. This is also because I feel forums with too much extra stuff on each page (usually via community mods and add-ons for their specific type of forum) come off a little amateurish.

Again, any criticism on the layout or forum in general is very welcome. I look forward to hearing everyone's critique.

 

[Mik.]

I'd say slow down on the ads a bit until you get about 100k posts. Members will appreciate this very much. Other than that I have no other suggestions.

 

[Uphoreka]

The theme is pretty cool. When I try to load, it took forever. Maybe get a better host or contact your host for their server status. Other than that, awesome!

 

[VGDistrict]

I'd say slow down on the ads a bit until you get about 100k posts. Members will appreciate this very much. Other than that I have no other suggestions.

Do you mean the one on top of each page, or the square one I add to many of the non-forum pages? Or do you mean just no ads in at all?

The theme is pretty cool. When I try to load, it took forever. Maybe get a better host or contact your host for their server status. Other than that, awesome!

Hmm that's odd, I always have instant loads on each page. It may have just been a hiccup at that moment because I used HostPC for a few years and they worked great, and after moving to another host (because I had extremely high traffic for a good year or so), I went back to HostPC and they've been nothing but fantastic.

I've shaved off as much extra code as I can in the templates and css (I made the templates alone about 20% smaller in size than the default phpBB templates). My only concern would be more of the back-end junk, which I'm not exactly great at optimizing, since I specialize more in xhtml and css. I'll keep a lookout for any slow loads, though. Thanks for the compliment on the theme!