Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance
When a potential user visits your forum, you want them to have fantastic first impressions. I wouldn't say my first impressions were fantastic, but they were actually pretty good. There is always room for improvement though, and I will try my best to help you turn these good first impressions to fantastic first impressions. To start, I am a fan of your forum's theme. It's appealing and professional. To be honest, I don't like the header image very much. I don't think it flows well with the rest of the forum. Also, the banner doesn't really match anything on the forum. I do like the "EZ" button though, it reminds me of those Staples commercials. I don't think your forum should have green on the banner. I think silver would work much better; the header is dark, so light silver text should work well. I also noticed your favicon, it doesn't match your forum. I think you should have the favicon either match your forum's banner or your forum's color scheme. I don't like that you have "Moderator: _____" on every board. It's just a bit unnecessary. I think you should use a MOD or snippet to make it where this doesn't show up on the boards and sub-boards. One thing I also really noticed is that you have two offline services. Well, it says they're offline, but it doesn't seem like they actually are offline. You seem to still be completing packages even though it says "Service: Offline." Having offline services looks bad, if these services are open now, you should change them to online or you should just hide the offline boards temporarily until you are able to open them. Just to throw a plus out, you have a few great MODS installed. The ultimate points MOD and profile comments MOD are some of my favorite phpBB MODS. Overall, I had pretty good first impressions when I first visited your forum.
(Score: 18/20)
Site Layout
The layout is pretty long. You have 22 boards. Your forum is young, is that really necessary? I understand, it's a promotion forum. You're going to have a lot of boards. Your forum is young though, I think you could easily merge a couple boards, especially in the off-topic "Non-Promotion" category. You don't need four boards in this category, it's off-topic discussion. I know this forum has it like that, so you may think your forum should have its off-topic category like that as well, but keep in mind, Forum Promotion is really active. The active member base easily keeps all the boards active. On your forum, I can already tell that it's a struggle to keep all the boards active. I think you should narrow the off-topic category to two or three boards. Sports could be made a sub-board of General Discussion. Technology could be made a sub-board of Media or General Discussion. Just by doing those two things, that would narrow your forum down to twenty boards. I know that's not a big difference, but every little bit counts. I think you should try your best to narrow the amount of boards to as little as fifteen or sixteen. Also, you should be more unique on your layout. It's set up exactly like Forum Promotion. Don't get me wrong, you have unique board titles and board descriptions, but that's about all that's really different. I know many promotion forums copy stuff like that from Forum Promotion. It's understandable. Forum Promotion has copied ideas from other promotion forums in the past. You should still mix up your layout a bit so it doesn't look so much like Forum Promotion's layout. It doesn't help your forum's reputation with the layout like it is. Overall, it's not the best layout. Just keep working on it. Good luck improving your forum's layout.
(Scored 14/20)
Statistics and Activity
Your forum has managed to accumulate 339 posts, 101 topics, and 25 members so far. That's pretty good, considering you didn't have your forum's official opening until just a few days ago. Seeing these statistics, should there really still be a board with zero posts? I know The Market is a hard board to keep active (I had trouble with keeping a board like it active back when I owned a promotion forum), but you need to do whatever you can to keep it active. If you don't have anything to put in the market, you can always ask a friend to post something they are selling in the market. Heck, Sshadow is a co-administrator and I know he does a lot of exchanging in the marketplace on this forum. You should ask him to help you out with keeping the market active. If that fails, you can always send me a PM and I've got a few things I could try to sell in the market on your forum. Your forum has 25 members and it already seems like members are going inactive. Encourage activity; get everyone to participate on the forum. You can even contact your friends and family, I'm sure they would be willing to help out a little. Overall, I think your forum is going to be something special if you and Sshadow stay committed.
(Scored 17/20)
Staff Moderation
From what I can see based off "The team" page, your forum has three staff members. That's a fair amount considering the current state of your forum. You are the main administrator, Sshadow is the technical administrator, and then Fluffybunny is a part of the Community Team. It's set up pretty well. You need to focus on recruiting Package and Review Team Members. Requests for those two services can flow in quickly, you need staff members primarily focused on completing those requests. I know you are working on doing all this, but I really think you should have found a couple packagers and reviewers before you had the grand opening of your forum. You seem to have opened your forum prematurely. That could be a big setback in your forum's growth. One thing I did notice is that Sshadow has two ranks, he is the technical administrator, so he has "Administrator" and "Technician." To be honest, two ranks like that looks a bit weird. I think you should make a rank for Sshadow called "Technical Administrator" or something similar to that. I also don't understand why Fluffybunny is a part of the Community Team yet his rank icon says he is a "Moderator." You should make Fluffybunny a moderator or change the rank icon to a Community Team rank icon. Overall though, not bad; good luck filling up those staff positions!
(Scored 17/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism
You and the rest of the staff team seem to be posting around professionally. All three of you use great spelling and grammar. There's nothing I like more about a forum than a professional staff team, kudos to your staff team for that. I did notice a few mistakes on your forum though. First, the Self Promotion board description, it starts with "If your," it needs to be "If you're." Secondly, you should probably make your sub-board descriptions as nice as your board descriptions. I noticed that a few of your sub-boards have small descriptions that just aren't very descriptive. Next, where is your forum rules? I don't see the rules anywhere. A forum can't go without forum rules, they're very important and necessary. Finally, in the Self Promotion board description again, it says "you may use this service to write a paragraph about your forum." Shouldn't it be "you may use this service by writing a paragraph about your forum." instead? I think that's what it needs to be anyways. Overall, good work!
(Scored 16/20)
Total Score - 82/100
Final Remarks
EzPromote has an excellent future ahead if you just stay committed to the forum and get all your services online.
Strong Points
Your forum's theme and the nice MODS installed.
Things to Improve
Offline services and amount of boards.
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