Your Quick Review
Pros
+ First of all, you have made your layout much better. You have have four less boards. Great job on that. The length of the page is much shorter. Good job on that. Keep in mind, seventeen boards is still a high amount of boards, but you have done an excellent job narrowing the board amount down so far.
+ Secondly, I see that you aligned the login and register buttons to the left, like I recommended. It looks much better. Way to go, it looks much better now. It didn't look very good centered.
+ Thirdly, I also see that the title message near the the favicon no longer says "Welcome to GD Forum." Now, it just says "GD Forum." I am glad that you listened to me on that. It's a lot better. Good job.
+ Next, activity is still looking pretty good. The forum has now been going for ten days and it appears to have slowed down a bit, but nothing to serious. Posts are still being made daily. The majority of boards have had at least one post today. The activity is still pretty good though. For example, I see the forum has passed the 1,000 posts milestone. Congratulations! Good luck achieving more posting milestones in the future.
+ Finally, your forum seems more professional. Well, it's not perfect of course, but your spelling, grammar, and professionalism is looking much better. I don't see any other errors right off the bat. One thing I ended up noticing is the Webmaster's Lounge board description. The last word of the description says "softwares." I think that's an incorrect plural form. I think singular and plural is the same in this case, so it should still be "software."
Cons
- First off, I don't like your logo. When I last reviewed your forum, you had a different one. Sure, it matches your forum theme, but the old one looked better. The "general discussion forum" text on the new logo is difficult to read. Not a very good font choice. The "G," "F," and "D" are especially difficult to read. Also, the old mascot/icon is gone. I personally thought it looked great.
- Secondly, I think you need a new favicon. It's good that you have a favicon, but the favicon isn't relevant to your forum at all. It would make much more sense to have a favicon relevant to your forum. Possibly a favicon that says your forum's initials; so "GD" or "GDF." You could even have a chat icon as it would relate to your forum's genre. The favicon you have right now may match your forum's theme, but it doesn't match your forum's genre.
- Thirdly, new rank images is a must. Don't get me wrong, those rank images are nice. I saw them in the Themes & Graphics section on Script Installs. They don't match your forum's theme though. The ranks are dark and grey. Your forum's default theme is blue and white. Where the ranks are seen, the background is white. So, a blue gradient for the background on the ranks would work perfectly. It would match your theme and be much more appealing. If you are looking for some good premade ranks, check our graphics database or you can check out
ForumRanks.Net.
- Next, it would be good to get a new affiliate banner. It's not required, but it makes much more sense to have an affiliate banner that matches your forum's default theme. You used the same affiliate banner on the old GD Forum. It's black and orange. It's no where close to matching your forum's default theme. Most likely, You can get a nice, new, sleek, blue, and white affiliate banner just by requesting it via our graphic requests board for as low as 100 FP$. Trust me, it would be well worth it.
- Lastly, you need to either remove or improve the "We have detected that you don't have an account with us yet (or haven't logged in). We encourage you to an account: it's free, and then you'll be able to post on the forum!" message. Right now, it just looks thrown on to the forum. It word wraps around the login and register buttons. You need to align the message to stay on the right or you could have an image made (that matches the login and register buttons) and have it say the message on it.
Final/General Thoughts
The forum has improved, I am glad that you listened to some of the things I mentioned in the full review. GD Forum is even better!
You should be proud of...
Your layout (It's much better now) and your professionalism. (Not perfect, but much better)
You really need to work on...
Your logo and ranks.
Score - 7/10
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