Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
Your skin is nice and simple, but it’s not…footballish. As in, the skin isn’t related to your forum’s purpose at all. Maybe you could change some of the icons. For example, you could make the unread/read board icons footballs or something. You know, something to customize. The skin itself though is still nice. It’s fluid, which is absolutely great. The colors are airy and elegant. However, it’s sort of barebones. Everything is just sort of solid and nothing really is exciting on it. It’s like asking for a cheeseburger with everything on it and getting a hamburger with lettuce – it’s still fine and all, but not really that great.
(Scored 13/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
It’s great that you only have one or two off-topic forums. I cannot tell you how many forums I’ve seen where it’s like, “Hey, some people may not know about my forums purpose, so I’m going to add a bunch of off-topic forums so everyone has something to talk about and my forum will be popular!” Naturally, that’s not how it works. Your layout was great and well thought-out I thought. One thing though that confuses me though is that your board is “Football Furor”, yet your big title text says “Football Forums”. Shouldn’t that be changed to Football Furor? That’s the only thing I noticed that I didn’t like about your layout.
(Scored 19/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
You’ve been open a month or two now. For that time frame, you’ve been doing pretty well. You’ve almost reached 1,000 posts. 49 members is also pretty good. It’s neither great nor bad by any means. Your administrator has around 115 posts, so about 800 posts are “real.” That’s better than some forums I’ve seen. Keep up the good work. One thing though is you could try to focus activity in some of the forums that only have 4 or 5 topics in them.
(Scored 18/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
You are not overstaffed by any means. It looks like your staff team consists of an admin and a global mod. That’s perfect for the age and activity level of your forum. Both of you seem very active and involved in the forum. I hate to make a section so short, but there’s really nothing I can suggest or complain about.
(Scored 20/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
There were a few things that could be improved.
“Undoubtedly the most followed league in the world. Discuss matches, players, transfers related to English Football. From Blue Square Leagues to the Premier League as well as the National team.” The first sentence is more or less a fragment and the second one could be like, “This is undoubtedly the most followed league in the world. Discuss matches, players, and transfers related to English Football. From Blue Square Leagues to the Premier League as well as the National team, you can discuss them here.”
Another example of one that could be improved:
“New to Football Furor? Give us a shout-out and let the world know about your arrival at Football Furor. Or just want to take yourself away from football- for a while,then talk about it here.” could be, “New to Football Furor? Give us a shout-out, and let the world know about your arrival at Football Furor. Do you just want to take yourself away from football for a while? Then talk about it here.”
Those aren’t the only ones I noticed but they should give you an idea of what to do.
(Scored 15/20)
Total Score - 85(Out of 100)
Final Remarks: Your forum had a lot of good info.
What was most liked about the website/forums: Layout, staff.
What was disliked most about the website/forums: Some grammar issues.
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to join my website? No issues were serious enough to stop me.
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