Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
Ok I believe in being honest up front and not making people run round in circles, to try and nicely tell the truth to them. And the honest truth is upon a first glance over your site, it’s nothing new and nothing I have not seen before. Don’t get me wrong I have not had a good chance to look at the whole site, but to me nothing stands out at my first look on your site. As I have seen to many blue, white and black themed sites to remember, your banner is ok but does not have that wow stand out factor.
The look of the site is ok and looks great, but again it’s nothing that stands out. Banner, logos icons and the theme is all just well average to me, and some of them even really bland. If you really want a site and forum that stands out, you really need to make something that stands out from a crowd. Make something colourful or hardcore for a theme, make something unique to make a banner stand out.
(Scored 5/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
Site layout is well organized as you have grouped everything into categories, with everything having there (enter name here) lair. It’s nice to see a forum with a decent theme behind it, as it adds a sense of style to the forums. But that is perhaps the only real good point, as your writing fonts are bland, the site in all respect looks boring. But most of all for a promotion/general forum your site is nothing I have seen before, there is nothing new here nothing unique, and most of all nothing to really want to make me stay.
(Scored 6/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
You did tell me your stats are good and from what I can see you really do have some great stats for a site so young. But it does look like that only a handful of members about 5 or 6 are the main source of all your posts. Now I not saying this a bad thing, but your site could stand to attract some more active members. There is also a few areas on the board without any activity at all, I would start a few topics in each section to fuel some activity.
(Scored 14/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
From what I can see of your staff, due to no account to have a look around the site. Seems like you’re the only staff on the site, which for a small forum is good. But for an advert forum like yours, you will soon needs some more staff members. From what I can see though you do treat your members with respect, and act with a professional touch. Minus a lack of staff I recon your on the right road right now.
(Scored 15/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
Your spelling seems sound with only the odd mistake now and there, your grammar could use a little work here and there. But I only pick this up because writing is my job, to the untrained eye most of this will not be a problem. I also recon your topic descriptions could use some work, they simply state what the area does in as little words as possible. Add some flair to them and some style, make them say more then just what the area does. This is the general chat area, see something like that is at best, well at best nothing. Try this for a little sample, This is the general chat section, grab some coffee and a seat and lets talk the night away. As you can see even a simple little add on like that breaths some life into your topic descriptions.
(Scored 10/20)
Total Score - (50 of 100)
Final Remarks:
At best your site is only average, if you wish to stand out in a crowd you will have a lot of work ahead of you.
What was most liked about the website/forums:
I cant say I liked much at all, most of it was to bland and to like every other forum I have seen before.
What was disliked most about the website/forums:
Your theme and layout is really bland, and really needs some fixing.
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to join my website?
I don’t really like the idea of joining this site, not until you fix it up to stand out of the crowd. But there is always a possibility in the future, good luck to you mate.
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