Website Name: DBZeta Website Link:http://dbzeta.net/index/ When was your website founded?: Made last Fall. Opened on March 31st. Which would you like?: (No Official Review | Standard Review | Advanced Review | Meticulous Review) No Official Review Notes: Any constructive criticism would be appreciated. Also, I'm not the admin, but I'm a staff member.
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Strengths:
- You've customized your theme very nicely and it fits your forum. As I mentioned in your promotion topic, you all should add the Yellow Pulse theme to go with the Red and Green versions. I believe it's released on the ZB support board, same place your admin likely found the ones you have.
- I like the way you've organized your layout - it's concise and clear where things should be posted and what your forum offers.
Things to improve:
- Your content is fair, but it's a constant effort so keep pumping more topics into your forum (overall posts and replies seem good). Do some topic exchanges and requesting post packages here and on other forums to help out with that so it's not all on your staff team.
- I suggest adding another light theme, so you have a couple lighter options to go with your main dark ones. The dark ones can be a little too dark for some so it's good to have options. ZB has plenty of themes to choose from.
I actually coded a DBZ themed theme for ZetaBoards a few years ago, designed by someone else, and it's released on the ZB support board. It'd be a good light theme to use that fits your niche.
Find it here: http://support.zathyus.com/topic/5111796/1/#new
(I'm GAK)
I'm honestly not too keen on the design that you have going on. The logo is one of the bigger aspects that really turns me off since it appears to be choppy and not much time put into it. On both the Green and Red Pulse themes, the Top Overall 10 Posters link actually overlaps as shown in the screenshot below:
The activity level though is really great for the size of the forum. You're right at 751 posts today at the time of me writing these. It's a small community but also tight knit as it appears, so keep that up. All your sections have had constant activity flowing through them, so kudos to you on that. 🙂
One other thing that I seen while browsing through topics is in the information box in the postbit. I see you have a Gender field, and I'm not sure if they just have not filled in that profile field, or what's causing it. You can see that the Gender field is squished in the box with the Member ID field being pushed to the right when it should be below.
All in all your forum is good, just those two small design aspects are something that came up. Best of luck! 😀
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I would like to commend the activity; it looks great and steady! Keep up the good work. There is usually a dynamic to forum's activity level, so don't get discouraged easily if it falls down a bit.
I noticed you have a portal page (named 'Hub'). It is most useful if made as first landing page when someone clicks on the forum link, otherwise it's standing there all alone. Since I don't imagine there will be reasons someone will choose to check the portal if they can go straight to the forum. Perhaps this can be a point to ponder about.
As Phio said above, your activity is good. Your theme seems a little too dark, in my opinion, especially with the red. It stings my eyes, and then the red just all out burns. I'd recommend you lighten up the theme, and maybe change the in the forum names to a different color.
I think the logo is too big, and the forums name seems to be hidden. I think if the image size is reduced and the text made bigger and a better font that will help. Activity is good so I have nothing to say about that. I'm not fond of where the donate button is, it would look better on a separate page. Good luck!
