Name of Site: Chat Socially Site Genre: General Site URL:http://chatsocially.com Type of Review ( Full/Quick ): quick Opening Date: Monday, July 8th. Additional Notes:
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Activity
For one of your forum strengths I chose Activity because it seems to be that you have a good amount of activity for a new site. Chat Socially has been opened to the public for a few weeks now and it really seems to have gotten a good amount of members, posts, and threads in the short time that it has been open. It has over 200 topics and over 2.2K posts already. Also, with 33 total members already, that's pretty good for a young forum. With that many topics you can surely get a lot of content and a lot of activity brewing in the community. This will help show that your forum is still active and is growing which will bring in new members from all around. You just have to try and get your current members and staff to help promote in any way that they can so that the word of Chat Socially will spread. Overall, your activity is amazing and really was one of your forums biggest strengths.
Content
As I mentioned before, you have a total of over 200 topics and 2.2K posts. For a forum that is so young, that is actually really good. I am surprised at how much content you were able to get in such a small amount of time. This will surely help bring in some more members to your community to help your site grow. Now you also need to make sure that you are keeping the content professional and spelled properly. This shows that the content is professional and that really gives the site a professional feel and look to it in the long run. I did notice though that a lot of the content is based around the General forum(s). I would suggest trying to get some more content spread around the other forums to give members more to post and comment about in those areas rather then just 1 forum in particular. Overall, your site has some good content, so lets move onto the forums weaknesses.
Weaknesses:
Theme/Design
The design and theme of Chat Socially is just really plain. The banner is small and doesn't exactly express what the site is about. The color scheme of the site also seems to be lacking as it seems like a default theme for the site. If you really wanna get a good amount of members and really want the site to grow, try finding a good theme that shows what the site is about. Get a banner with more of a "chat" feeling to it. There are tons of themes out there that are free and would suit a chat forum well. It's all a matter of finding one you like and using it the best that you can. And if you can't find one, ask your members, turn to them for ideas. They are sure to help you out. So overall, you should really work on the design and theme of the site and then you will see the site grow! So lets move on.
Layout
The layout of the site is really open and really misused. You have a lot of open space that you could take advantage of for ads, promotion, links, widgets, codes, ect. The navigation bar seems to be fine but you have a lot of open space next to the banner and on the sides of the forum index that you could use for many different things. So one of my biggest suggestions to you is to take advantage of all the open space that you have because members don't like seeing a whole bunch of open space not being used up because then it just turns them away after a while. So overall, you just really need to work on your layout and find ways to use the space you have.
Final Remarks:
Chat Socially was a fairly good site to review and give my feedback on but the main things that I see that need to be worked on is the theme and layout of the site. You got the activity and content parts, but now you need the design and organization parts. But overall, I think the site will do fine once you focus a bit more on the design and layout and I hope you enjoyed your review!
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