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Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance
When I first view your forum, the first thing that I notice is your unique banner and header in general. I think that it's really neat how you have the 'Windows' and 'Mac' icons in the header, and clicking them will bring you to the forum about them. Before your forum even loads, I also notice that your forum has a nice, professional looking icon and that the forum loads rather quickly. That's good.
I like the different color combinations that you have on the forum with the red, blue, grayish-black, and white. I think it all goes together rather nicely, and gives the forum a warm feeling.
I think that the "View the latest post" icons beside the user name of the last poster on the forum is a bit too big. They're currently 16x16 pixels -- try resizing them down to 12x12 pixels. I think it would look better. Speaking of icons, I think that the forum icons that you're using look really nice with the theme. They look rather professional and nice.
I think that in between the sub forums you should have an icon or spacer. It looks kind of jumbled together with no spacer or anything between the sub forum names/links.
I think that you should add more to the description for the Introduction category. Currently it's only "Introduce yourself!". That doesn't really say much, and since many people who commonly use forums go to the introduction forum first, it's good to have a good description for the introduction forum, telling them what your board is about and just generally welcoming them to the board. (Of course you should have a decent description for every board, but I feel that having a good description for the introduction board is especially important.)
(Score: 15/20)
Site Layout
I'm not sure why you have the statistics and who's online both above and below the forum body. I think it's unneeded and repetitive to have it twice. I think that you should get rid of the statistics that are above the forum body. Also, I'm not sure why you have the "karma toplist" up. I think that as your forum gets larger having that could cause some problems. Some possible ones being that users are unwilling to give out deserved karma because they don't want others to rise on the list that appears on the bottom of the forum, thinking it will keep or get themselves higher on it. Users could start asking their friends to give them some because they want to get on the list at the bottom of the forum, because there will be more of an incentive to have higher reputation (getting your name in the bottom of the forum). Also, it's just not needed. I don't believe that potential members or members need to see (or care for that matter) who on the forum has the most karma. Sure, it could point them to helpful or highly respected users, but they could just go to the staff if they need to talk to a highly respected or helpful user. I think that the same could go for the "richest users". But I don't believe that having the richest users has as much of a possibility of causing as many problems.
I think that the "Tech News" should go in the "Tech" forum. The "Tech News" doesn't fit in with the other forums in the first category (which it's currently placed in). I can see how since it's an important forum, but it doesn't fit with the others in that category. If you want the Tech News to be one of the first forums in the forum (possibly getting noticed more quickly, or viewed first) then I would recommend that you switch the first and second categories around so that the Tech News is one of the first forums to be seen.
(Scored 14/20)
Statistics and Activity
From what I see at the time that I view your board, your activity isn't terrible. It has a lot of room for improvement, but it looks like every board has at least a few topics in it, and the activity isn't just focused on one forum. Although I do think that some of the forum in the "Tech" category could use some more topics in them. But that's only because of the amount of topics in the off topic forum -- I think that when there's a very large difference between the amount of topics and posts in the main section of the forum and the off topic section of the forum, it can be a bit off-putting. I don't really see much of an active member base on your forum though. There's really not much of a community feel to it. I would recommend inviting people that you know (whether in real life, from other forums, or from social networks) to the forum, so that a group of people who know each other at least a bit is at the forum. I find that if people who know and like each other are at a forum - especially a new forum - it can benefit the forum greatly in the long run. That's because since they know each other, they're not uncomfortable posting topics, replying, and communicating to each other. Using posting exchanges and posting packages can also help your forum, since it looks to be relatively new, but I wouldn't recommend you using too many since your forum already has a good amount of content. What it needs now is more of a community.
(Scored 15/20)
Staff Moderation
At the time that I view your forum, you have one administrator and two moderators. I think that's an OK amount for the activity and size of your forum. It looks like all of your staff are active, and have logged on within the last 48 hours. I think that it wouldn't hurt if you had one more moderator on the forum, because of the amount of forums that you have, but the amount that your currently have is fine.
(Scored 19/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism
The global announcements you have currently - "Affiliates - Check them out!", "The Forum Rules - Read Before Posting", "Support Template", "More Topics", "New! BitUser Signatures", and "Announcements" - I think that you should make them stickies in the Bituser discussion forum instead of having them as global announcements. I recall reading a poll awhile back, it was if users liked or minded having a forum have a lot of global announcements. The majority said that they did not like it or didn't care for it.
In this part of this forum description of the board Suggestions and Bituser Discussion - "Want to suggest something for the site, or would like to give me a pat on the back?" the comma is not needed between the word "site" and "or".
I don't see many - if any - spelling or grammar mistakes in important threads (including the rules and announcements). That's great, and reflects well on your forum.
(Scored 14/20)
Total Score - 77/100
Final Remarks
Strong Points
The theme, it's great.
Things to Improve
The activity, and certain parts of the layout.
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