Custom-Forums

[Joshua Farrell]

Still making the forum. I have a few more minor stuff I am planning on adding in the near future.

http://custom-forums.proboards.com/index.cgi
Out of what you can see, what would you suggest, to add, remove, or make better?

Additional Info added onMay 11th:
Plus, if you can't make a constructive rate, I will report your post.
Bad Examples of Rates:

Spoiler

"You need to remove the ads"
"change hosts, because i hate free hosts"
"add more boards"
"make the skin better looking"
"I don't like blue"

 

[xarver]

1) Pay for removal of ads.
2) Use actual images in your theme. (header, footer, etc)
3) Get a domain name.
Those are my suggestions. 🙂

 

[Teekay]

I agree with xarver's suggestions.
You need to get rid of the ads and get a domain so that's it shorter as well. You should use the Forum Promotion Services to get members on your forum. You also need to make a few starter threads so that new members can post in them.

 

[Joshua Farrell]

1. The google ads are there by default, and the smaller ads are there to leech credit into an advertising program my site is in.

2. The supposed red table is actually a basic banner to fill up the space till I get the actual banner finished.

The Text Menu is a javascript code to that had the original menu removed to move it to a different spot.

3. Not going to get the domain till I open it officially.

Thanks for the suggestions, but they werent the right type of suggestions I wanted.

 

[xarver]

Thanks for the suggestions, but they werent the right type of suggestions I wanted.

Then what type of suggestions do you want?

 

[Joshua Farrell]

Something more that just a quick overview. Suggestions on what types of coding might help in changing things to be more better appealing.

 

[el canadiano]

Get out of Proboards altogether. Paying for ads is much more expensive than most paid hosting options. I still have nneonneo's Proboards converter.

 

[Joshua Farrell]

Well, only having one forum on there, and dedicated to making styles for that service isn't going to kill me. I will still be keeping my regular forums in the hopes to get them more active.


And I updated the style via using blue, a bunch of <div></div>, and graphics. What do you all think now?

 

[Cosmic]

It's a very, very plain style. If you can't make fancy styles with background images then a website like this will never succeed.

 

[Deleted member 4320]

If you design styles and are a board sharing styles and all, I think more custom graphics are needed as most of it is simply plain and blue. Also maybe some designer layouts as well instead of blue and black and a bit list of forums in tables would look much better.

 

[Jay]

I think you should change hosts.

 

[Joshua Farrell]

I thankyou for the very minor suggestions, and for suggesting to change hosts. BUT for the host thing, I can't advertise a skins forum for the host that I am going to do them for, unless I have a forum hosted by them.

For the rest of you, you need to Actually suggest items that will probably will help, instead of just saying something with a general idea in mind. The review forum at the host, that allows peer to peer reviews, if I ever get reviews there, will actually give good suggestions, instead of general ideas. So I am going to hold you guys up to that standard.