Pre-Launch Review
Site Name: http://foreverminecraft.com
Site Type: Forum - Minecraft
Age: >1 Month
Appearance
The appearance of your board is 100% Minecraft, which is great! Your forum shows that all you talk about is Minecraft and that is good because some forums skins really don't achieve this. The logo looks good, but something I do suggest is maybe adding an image to the left of the logo to kind of bring your banner to life, I mean it is Minecraft after all. As is stands currently, your banner is kind of plain, and by adding an image you'd be bringing it to life! Something that I did notice was that your forum icons were a little padded from the inside edge of the forum container. While this isn't really that big of a deal, just something that if you want to fix, you can. The addition of the icons to the right of the thread information looks good, never seen that done before. That is a wrap on this section, more will be talked about in the layout section of the review.
Layout
The layout of the forum is that of a regular myBB forum. One thing that I like is the "Community Activty" module that is at the top of the board. One thing that I want to suggest is adding some kind of hover over effect to the navigation bar. Currently, there isn't one and I think that if you added one, it would look and feel better to the members. Staying on the topic of the navigation bar, I would advise that you remove the link for the Chat for guests, this is because it looks odd having a "broken" link that guests really can't use. I like what you did with the "Board Statistics" because it is creative and just adds to your niche more. One thing that I would suggest is to break up the content a little. RIght now, you are left with a paragraph and I caught myself reading like one. Maybe add a line break after each one, or even add an icon that matches what the stat is. Other than that, I like the layout of your forum! Also, great theme.
First Impressions and Interest
Pretty much, everything has been covered above. Short of continuing to build on the forum and make it better and better is the key now. My interest has been covered above too, mainly with the fact that the theme is great at matching your niche. Just go out of your comfort zone and make your forum better by adding more custom things!
Content
Your content is good. It looks like your content is being posted in a way that is even throughout all of your forum. This is nice to see that everyone keeps posting around the community and not concentrated in a certain topic. Looking at your post & member ratio, you are sitting at around 8 posts per member. So far, this is a good start seeing you opened about a week ago. Keep on posting and encouraging your members to post, and watch this number grow. One thing that I must comment on is that I have caught a few times where your members are getting off from using proper English. This isn't a huge thing, however, it is one that you might want to post about, and maybe correct your members on.
Words from the Reviewer
I like that fact you are hitting this with full force and that you have done something that you like. Keep at it and I wish you luck with your community!
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