Basic Review
Site Name: DNTemple
Site Type: Website Management Forum
Age: 5 Months Old
Appearance
Let me start this review off by stating that your theme is very astonishing. Your forum banner has a very unique design with the DNT bolded and really sticking out to the viewer and grabbing their attention with the design. The forums favicon image is really neat as you decided to use a "D" as the "D" in "DNT". A rather smart idea and unique idea for a favicon instead of using a basic favicon. I love the icons that you decided to use to mark if a forum is new, not new, or if it is locked. They really stick out and aren't seen very often to some people. This will really grab the attention of others as well and really get others to like your forum and want to join it as well. Overall, your forum has a really good appearance and now lets move onto the layout of your forum.
Layout
Lets start off the layout part of your forum by looking over the amount of forums that you have and how you have them all panned out. You have 30 forums just on the homepage of the forum and that really shocked me. You are giving your members and staff 30 different forums to post topics and posts in so there is no way that they can say they don't have anywhere to post. Thought this can be an issue as well because if you want content in every forum then you have lots of forums to fill. But then again, on the other side of that, you will have tons of content that will really make your site more popular on the search engines as well as the simple guests that you will get while promoting. Your layout is fantastic, it really looks as you put lots of time and effort into organizing your forum but we will get to organization soon. Overall, your layout is amazing and really works well so far and you already have so many forums for others to post in and get more content. Lets move onto the statistics and activity of your forum.
Statistics and Activity
In the past 15 minutes you had 0 registered users but you have had 7 guests view the site. That means that whatever means of promoting that you are doing seem to be working. You may want to make sure that you keep some members active the more active that your site gets so that it doesn't seem like the forum is dying when people are viewing the site as a guest. You have 495 posts and 53 members in only a few months. The amount of members is good but you should probably have more content for a forum that is over 5 months old. So try getting your members to post a bit more content but we will go more in depth about that in a second. Overall, you have a good size of members and a fair amount of content but lets move onto the content part of your forum to see where you may or may not need improvement on.
Content
You have 495 posts so far on your site. That is a bit low for a forum that has been around for 5 months. With 53 members so far you should be able to have lots more content then what you have so try getting your members to post more. If you need ideas on what you can do to get them to post more, try doing a posting competition and offer them a prize of some sort that they would really want to work towards and hope to win. That will spark the fire in the community and get the members both active and posting. Bringing in more content and more members to the site to help the forum grow and help the community get larger in size. You could also request a package for your forum here at FP or on various other promotional/service forums to get some more content for your site and more topics for your members to post in. Overall, you have a fair amount of content. I would just recommend getting a bit more content and getting your members' support on doing so. Lets move onto the organisation of your forum and then we will wrap up the forum with my final words.
Organisation and SEO
Your forum has 30 forums just on the homepage as I have stated before and because of this, you have tons of forums that you can organize all of your posts/threads into to keep the site organized and clean of spam. I really like the "Recent Topics" widget on the side of the forum to show the top 5 recent topics. That will help the members see which topics have recently gotten replies and which ones are active if they are looking for a topic to post in. Overall, you have done a pretty good job with organizing the forum and keeping the posts and topics in the correct forums so that they don't get lost. Great work and lets move onto the final words from the reviewer before we wrap up the review.
Words from the Reviewer
DNTemple was a fun forum to review, I found a lot of amazing things that caught my attention and I really think that you have done a fabulous job on the site. Keep up the great work and I hope you enjoy the review.
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