Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
The first thing I noticed was your banner. It's cool looking with the ripple effect and is still readable with it which is cool. However, I think the ripple effect should be a tad bit faster to be more realistic. Moving onto your skin, it's sort of just meh. I mean, the skin is nice and functional. However, tons of ZetaBoards forums have that same exact skin or some other variation of it. It makes your forum look generic and unoriginal. Honestly you should make Via Domus the default. It looks really nice and I haven't seen other forums about it. On a lighter note, the rank system looked nice and pretty much everything was good on the skin, just the unoriginality bugged me.
(Scored 13/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
Let's put something into perspective here. You have 14 forums for your main subject, which is a lot. (Honestly, I think you could combine all the contest forums into one.) You then have 10 general discussion forums. That's a bit much, considering you also have a few other forums. You should focus on the writing forums, and cut down on the number of general discussion forums. A good thing is that all your forums do fit into their respective categories correctly. One other minor gripe with your layout is your affiliate box. The affiliates when moving like go under the hosted by ZetaBoards message which looks odd and glithced. If you could move the affiliate box down, I think that would fix it. One more good thing, I'm glad you have a custom domain. I don't like seeing those z1.*url*.com urls, the domain looks so much better.
(Scored 13/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
Man, for a forum that's only been open since February you're doing GREAT. My forum has been open for over a year and its statictics are about like yours! 302 members is fabulous, and 16K posts in just a matter of months is great. Keep up whatever you're doing. Make sure to keep on promoting your forum on sites like ForumPromotion, and I have no doubt your forum will do very well. There is honestly nothing I can complain about in this section - so you get a perfect score.
(Scored 20/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
This section and Statistics are usually the hardest to write about, so please excuse the length. As far as your staff goes, 2 admins and 2 mods isn't bad. I wouldn't hire any more for a while, but that's a good amount for now. Their activity was great from what I saw, at the time of reviewing 3 out of the 4 were online, can't really wish for more activity. The one that wasn't active was still active within a day or two ago. Your mods appeared to do their jobs well. Again, there's not much I can suggest here in categories such as this one.
(Scored 20/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
Since you're a writing forum, I was expecting very good spelling and grammar on your forum. Thankfully, you did not disappoint. The only things were extremely minor. "Post about your favourite games, consoles computers and gadgets here" and "Post about your favourite musician or song here" need a period at the end. Also, "Threads relating to the Be Creative Blog" should probably be something like, "Threads relating to the Be Creative Blog belong here." Other than that, it was excellent. That's rare for a forum. Usually this section ends up being a huge because of mistakes.
As far as professionalism, I would just fix up some of the forums as mentioned in Site Layout, and definitely move around the affiliate box. Everything else was fine.
(Scored 18/20)
Total Score - 84 (Out of 100)
Final Remarks: Your forum's issues were ultimately minor, and your forum has a bright future.
What was most liked about the website/forums: The community, the statistics.
What was disliked most about the website/forums: The generic skin.
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to join my website? I don't join many forums, but if I were a writer, there would be nothing to stop me from joining. The only thing might be the fact they've seen the skin a lot of times before.
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