Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
The forum seemed sort of bland and unappealing to me. The first thing I noticed was that banner, which really was just ugly. I'm sorry, but that was a poor choice of font, and all it is is black text on a transparent background, and with a bad choice of font. Please get a new banner. And your entire site looks...old, in a way. I mean, everything on the skin is blocky and nothing is really customized. For example, why couldn't you make the board icons say "DC" instead of "LB"? Also, images like
look pixelly on the dark background. Thankfully there were a few good things about your skin. The top flash navbar was kinda cool. Also, post screen looked nice and clean. I would really work on your skin though.
(Scored 7/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
Well I'll start out with the good. All of your forums were correctly arranged into their respective category. Also, your advertisements were unintrusive. I also like the placement of the shoutbox. It's noticeable but not like overdone and annoying. Your subforums seem appropriate, but you have quite a bit of them, so watch that. Now onto the bad...First off, your forum suffers a common problem. You have way too many off-topic boards. (About 8 I think is how many you have.) You're approaching having as many as developer boards, and have more off-topic main boards than developer ones already. If you're a Developer Community, make it mostly dev related, not "Developer Community + News, Forum Games, Online Videos, etc Community". My only other complaint is the birthday list looks funky. Couldn't the bar stretch out like the others even if there aren't that many birthdays?
(Scored 14/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
Yay! A section where I don't have to complain!
😀 For 2 weeks ago, almost 3K posts is very, very good. 58 members is good as well. Some forums don't reach that for up to 2 months, and you've done it in a fraction. Just make sure members keep coming back. Really, there is nothing to complain or suggest in this section. Keep up the good work! Actually, there is one suggestion. Try to get people to post in the subforums that have no posts.
(Scored 20/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
Are three admins really necessary? That's a bit much for a forum of your age. And with that you have 3 mods! 6 staff members on a 58 member forum is not good. When a small forum has tons of staff, that can intimidate new members. On a lighter side though, all your staff are active and seem to contribute. That's good. I'm not complaining about your staff, just the number of them. I wouldn't hire for a while. Your staff do a good job though.
(Scored 15/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
This right here is the main thing your forum did better than any other. Very very good job on spelling and grammar. You had well though out and well-written board descriptions that had no major errors. I did not examine each one closely but when I scanned down I didn't notice anything wrong other than this: "If it is not your's" should be, "If it is not yours". (Yours does not have an apostrophe.) Usually this section of a review is longest, you should be glad yours is short. As far as professionalism, please take into account the suggestions I gave above. Overall, great job on spelling.
(Scored 19/20)
Total Score - 75 (Out of 100)
Final Remarks: Your forum needs some work before it can grow.
What was most liked about the website/forums: Spelling and grammar.
What was disliked most about the website/forums: The skin.
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to join my website? I would fix up the layout and skin
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