Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
The first thing I that catches my eye on your forum is the ads. I think that surrounding the ads with something more eye catching would help the guests first impressions of your website, as it will draw their attention away from them. I really like your banner you have, the renders look like they are coming out of my screen right towards my face, and it also blends very well into the background. I glanced down a bit and got this ugly looking "Protected by Copyscape" picture. I dont see the need for this, it makes your forum look insecure about anyone even saving a file to there computer, plus you cannot copyright everything on your forum. However, I really like your theme you are a using, it is probably one of the best dark themes I have seen in a long time, it is dark but cool at the same time, it kind of intertwines both moods. Just to say, you have broken links to pictures under the category headers, it looks ugly.
(18 /20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
Just from first glance, I can really tell your layout is very bad. For starters, looking throughout the whole page, you have a category for 1 forum, that is a big no-no, as it would most likely fit into another category. Instead of telling you where to move everything, to make it short and sweet I will try and make a list sort, - = categories, -- = forums, --- = subforums:
- Front Desk
-- ES Firehose
-- Question Box
-- Red Carpet
- Otaku Central
-- Anime Central
--- Anime Reviews
-- Manga Station
--- Manga Reviews
Leave the gaming as is
- Off Topic
-- General Discussion
-- Media/Entertainment
-- Roleplay
-- Fanfiction
That wuld probably be your best bet
(10 /20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
Seeing as you have been 3 days I believe, your stats are quite good. Having over 700 posts for a 3 day old forum is fantastic. This means you achieve around 360 posts per day. Having only 36 members is awesome, on average they post around 20 pots each, even more, it shows how active your userbase is, and hopefully they will be good contributors as your forum grows. On that, it would be easier if you had users logged in the past 24 hours, to see how many of them are actually active.
(19 /20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
Looking at the memberlist, you have 1 Admin, 2 Community Admins and 1 Moderator. First of all, I do not know the difference between the Community Admins and Moderators, or even the Admins and Community Admins for that matter, they seem to be a moderating group with Admin status I believe. If I were you, remove this group and move all members of staff into the Moderators from this group. Secondly, you have roughly 1 member of staff to every 9 people. This could be a tad daunting for potential members, it is like having 1250 moderators/admins here on FP, it is very daunting seeing that many staff. If you really like them, keep them, but right now they are of no use to you.
(14 /20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
In general, your spelling and grammar are great, but here are some little things:
Introducing our beloved members, we welcome you and all that you are to Eclyptic Studios.
Should be:
Introducing our beloved members, we welcome you, and all that you are, to Eclyptic Studios.
It makes it look and sound better, rather than slurring it out, breaking it up will make it structured a lot better.
This realm enables you to roleplay to your hearts delight.
Should be:
This realm enables you to roleplay to your heart's delight.
Take note of the apostrophe, it is there because it is the hearts delight, the heart owns the delight so therefore it is given an apostrophe.
For all you general gamerz and amatures that have just got into the world of gaming. Post general chat threads and topics that revolve around the general aspect of gaming.
Should be:
For all you general gamers and amateurs that have just gotten into the world of gaming. Post general chat threads and topics that revolve around the general aspect of gaming.
You spelt amateurs wrong.
(16 /20)
Total Score - 77 (Out of 100)
Final Remarks:
What was most liked about the website/forums:
The activity is perfect
What was disliked most about the website/forums:
The amount of staff
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to join my website?
Structuring the forums better so I know my way around a lot easier
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