Forum Web Hosting - Need 1+ feedback/review(s) from all of you!

[Tommy M.]

Site URL: http://forumweb.hosting/
Date Opened: 3/28/2016
Review Type: Basic review
Extra Notes: I have started and developing a web hosting forum, the domain forumweb.hosting said all. It would be great if I can have your feedback on the design (layout, colors), content, logo and any your ideas from you.

Thanks in advance!

 

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[Tommy M.]

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Basic Review of Web Hosting Forum
http://forumweb.hosting/
Review by Servo​

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First Impressions: (15 out of 15)
"Wow this is a big website " was my first impression. I do like the way you have used your CMS. At the first glance, I could not even tell which CMS you are using so good job there.

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Site Structure: (14 out of 15)
The best thing about your site structure is the top navigation. It is resourceful and does not have a single useless link, a thing that I rarely see in websites nowadays. Further I have never seen VB forums being used so well. It is masterfully divided into categories, and I can easily go to the forums of my desired area of interest.

The top navigation is so wonderful that I can almost overlook the other shortcoming but, I said, almost. Having such a useful bar, I don't understand why would you need such a messy home page and I don't quite understand the structure of main page. I think you are using blog plugin with a portal plugin. The blocks on the portal are not positioned to my liking. You have already put the forum categories in the top navigation and putting them again on home page makes it just plain messy. I can understand why you have them but, not why right in the middle of the page.

All you need are updates from each category, so why not use the wonderful sidebar widget you have for updates from each category with separate blocks? You can put the updates from each categories in this sidebar widget to make the home page's main section look more clean and still keep the updates from all categories on home page (I will discuss this in more detail later). Also, re-position the affiliates block to the footer section. Everything else is fine by me and yet again I'll praise the top navigation. I don't see any issue with individual forum pages for each category but I do have just one suggestion. Make a separate sidebar widget for each forum page; for example the "Dedicated Host" forum category should have a sidebar widget displaying recent updates from that category only. It has been 5 years since I used VB as admin, so I don't remember if it can be done or not.

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Design Quality: (14 out of 15)
I like the theme. It gives your website a more corporate feel, rather than just a forum website appearance. It is not really cool or breathtaking, but it serves its purpose of being fit for its use. When I first visited your site I thought it was website of a web-hosting company, and which will entail a lot of confidence from users in your site. Having said that, I'll comeback to my point that the main page appears messy. There are categories which you already have in your top navigation and putting them again on main page makes it entirely messy, while the rest of page is Lionel Messi 😛 Sorry, could not help but crack joke here, and its quite displeasing to the eye.

Your main page has too much stuff. I would recommend having blog entries, marketplace, affiliates, hosting quotes and trending topics on the home page. Remove the rest, and you will see how pleasing your home page becomes to the eye. If it was any other site I would have said what a horrible design, but since the website focuses on web hosting, SEO and website management the design is of good quality. The logo is a let down for me as it does not go with the website. I would recommend a more corporate and professional looking logo.

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Originality: (15 out of 15)
I'll quote from my first impression, "At the first glance I could not even tell which CMS you are using." I have never seen someone use VB in such a way. No matter how you look at it, a forum CMS is just a forum in the end, but you proved it wrong. The idea may not be one of a kind but the way it is presented is unique. I have seen many websites about forum management, web hosting help, SEO etc. but yours is quite unique. Just one thing I have noticed, although your website focuses on all aspects of website management, is that you are focusing too much on just web hosting. And I'd recommend getting a domain name as well if possible.

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Overall Mark: (58 out of 60)
My job is supposedly to be a critic but I can't criticize for the sake of criticism and in all honesty I could find only a few things amiss in a very short period of time. Though I may end up not using your site, because I have been a webmaster for like 6 years now and time teaches you a lot. I have come to admire your skills as a webmaster. Remember, no matter how objective a critic tries to be, their opinion is always subjective to their tastes and so is mine. I hope you find my opinions to be of use. Best of LUCK!!​

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[Tommy M.]

Thanks Servo, they are great feedback and I appreciated your reviews on our forum!

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Basic Review of Web Hosting Forum
http://forumweb.hosting/
Review by Servo​

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First Impressions: (15 out of 15)
"Wow this is a big website " was my first impression. I do like the way you have used your CMS. At the first glance, I could not even tell which CMS you are using so good job there.

Wow it is a great feedback that I have ever got. Honestly I wanted to have that like you said, everyone visits the forum have to the same feeling "it must be a big website"

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Site Structure: (14 out of 15)
The best thing about your site structure is the top navigation. It is resourceful and does not have a single useless link, a thing that I rarely see in websites nowadays. Further I have never seen VB forums being used so well. It is masterfully divided into categories, and I can easily go to the forums of my desired area of interest.

You are right, I edited more on top navigation and arrange them into separated categories and everyone can easily find out which they want.

The top navigation is so wonderful that I can almost overlook the other shortcoming but, I said, almost. Having such a useful bar, I don't understand why would you need such a messy home page and I don't quite understand the structure of main page. I think you are using blog plugin with a portal plugin. The blocks on the portal are not positioned to my liking. You have already put the forum categories in the top navigation and putting them again on home page makes it just plain messy. I can understand why you have them but, not why right in the middle of the page.

They are more reasons why I made the design like that...I could not tell all in a public forum

But it is helpful so that I still can use it today.

All you need are updates from each category, so why not use the wonderful sidebar widget you have for updates from each category with separate blocks? You can put the updates from each categories in this sidebar widget to make the home page's main section look more clean and still keep the updates from all categories on home page (I will discuss this in more detail later). Also, re-position the affiliates block to the footer section. Everything else is fine by me and yet again I'll praise the top navigation. I don't see any issue with individual forum pages for each category but I do have just one suggestion. Make a separate sidebar widget for each forum page; for example the "Dedicated Host" forum category should have a sidebar widget displaying recent updates from that category only. It has been 5 years since I used VB as admin, so I don't remember if it can be done or not.

Could you elaborate this?

If possible, you can show any screenshot where you want to show or explain me?

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Design Quality: (14 out of 15)
I like the theme. It gives your website a more corporate feel, rather than just a forum website appearance. It is not really cool or breathtaking, but it serves its purpose of being fit for its use. When I first visited your site I thought it was website of a web-hosting company, and which will entail a lot of confidence from users in your site. Having said that, I'll comeback to my point that the main page appears messy. There are categories which you already have in your top navigation and putting them again on main page makes it entirely messy, while the rest of page is Lionel Messi 😛 Sorry, could not help but crack joke here, and its quite displeasing to the eye.

Yeah I want to show more things on the homepage so they can have more thing to pick one.

Your main page has too much stuff. I would recommend having blog entries, marketplace, affiliates, hosting quotes and trending topics on the home page. Remove the rest, and you will see how pleasing your home page becomes to the eye. If it was any other site I would have said what a horrible design, but since the website focuses on web hosting, SEO and website management the design is of good quality. The logo is a let down for me as it does not go with the website. I would recommend a more corporate and professional looking logo.

I agree with this idea, I will change the logo soon and improve stuffs on forum homepage.

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Originality: (15 out of 15)
I'll quote from my first impression, "At the first glance I could not even tell which CMS you are using." I have never seen someone use VB in such a way. No matter how you look at it, a forum CMS is just a forum in the end, but you proved it wrong. The idea may not be one of a kind but the way it is presented is unique. I have seen many websites about forum management, web hosting help, SEO etc. but yours is quite unique. Just one thing I have noticed, although your website focuses on all aspects of website management, is that you are focusing too much on just web hosting. And I'd recommend getting a domain name as well if possible.

Thanks for these reviews, I wanted it unique from others.

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Overall Mark: (58 out of 60)
My job is supposedly to be a critic but I can't criticize for the sake of criticism and in all honesty I could find only a few things amiss in a very short period of time. Though I may end up not using your site, because I have been a webmaster for like 6 years now and time teaches you a lot. I have come to admire your skills as a webmaster. Remember, no matter how objective a critic tries to be, their opinion is always subjective to their tastes and so is mine. I hope you find my opinions to be of use. Best of LUCK!!​

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I understand, even you don't need to be a webmaster, you still can join the forum without any problems when you need helps on web hosting. We are having web hosting experts there and ready to help someone need to be supported about web hosting.

Cheers,

 

[Allenafaith]

Your site definitely has a lot going on! I see a ton of different things on the front page, I'm usually not fond of the home page being cluttered, though. I'm guessing you're going for a professional look, have you thought about getting a new logo? Generally, the cool text logos aren't that appealing in my opinion. I think your site would look way better with a different logo (you could use the same colors), but maybe with an icon along with it! 🙂

Other than those things, I really like your site! Good luck with it! 😀

 

[Tommy M.]

Your site definitely has a lot going on! I see a ton of different things on the front page, I'm usually not fond of the home page being cluttered, though. I'm guessing you're going for a professional look, have you thought about getting a new logo? Generally, the cool text logos aren't that appealing in my opinion. I think your site would look way better with a different logo (you could use the same colors), but maybe with an icon along with it! 🙂

Other than those things, I really like your site! Good luck with it! 😀

You are exact and for sure I will design a new logo to make it look better and more impressive.

logo Icon? it's a good idea? where do you want to put it?

 

[Tommy M.]

Your site definitely has a lot going on! I see a ton of different things on the front page, I'm usually not fond of the home page being cluttered, though.

I understand what you are saying to

will improve it to make a better homepage. 🙂

 

[Allenafaith]

Your site definitely has a lot going on! I see a ton of different things on the front page, I'm usually not fond of the home page being cluttered, though. I'm guessing you're going for a professional look, have you thought about getting a new logo? Generally, the cool text logos aren't that appealing in my opinion. I think your site would look way better with a different logo (you could use the same colors), but maybe with an icon along with it! 🙂

Other than those things, I really like your site! Good luck with it! 😀

You are exact and for sure I will design a new logo to make it look better and more impressive.

logo Icon? it's a good idea? where do you want to put it?

I think it's a good idea! Just to make sure you know what I'm talking about specifically, I mean something in the place of as an example where the icon is beside the forum promotion logo, like right beside the words. Maybe put it on the left side as well. I love how you're so willing to change things, though! Maybe you could add a little cloud beside it or something. Here's a website with a ton of icons that you can scroll though. Maybe you'll find some you like! http://fontawesome.io/icons/?utm_source=www.qipaotu.com

 

[Ash]

When I first went on your site I thought it was a blog for a second. I love the appearance and it looks great. One problem I noticed was that that the yellow Register button is making the height of the menu too long and also bugs out the menu when scrolling. Other than that your site looks to be doing great and I love how everything is layed out on the homepage 😉

 

[Tommy M.]

Your site definitely has a lot going on! I see a ton of different things on the front page, I'm usually not fond of the home page being cluttered, though. I'm guessing you're going for a professional look, have you thought about getting a new logo? Generally, the cool text logos aren't that appealing in my opinion. I think your site would look way better with a different logo (you could use the same colors), but maybe with an icon along with it! 🙂

Other than those things, I really like your site! Good luck with it! 😀

You are exact and for sure I will design a new logo to make it look better and more impressive.

logo Icon? it's a good idea? where do you want to put it?

I think it's a good idea! Just to make sure you know what I'm talking about specifically, I mean something in the place of as an example where the icon is beside the forum promotion logo, like right beside the words. Maybe put it on the left side as well. I love how you're so willing to change things, though! Maybe you could add a little cloud beside it or something. Here's a website with a ton of icons that you can scroll though. Maybe you'll find some you like!

Thanks I will keep your advice and redesign our forum logo according to your ideas.

When I first went on your site I thought it was a blog for a second. I love the appearance and it looks great. One problem I noticed was that that the yellow Register button is making the height of the menu too long and also bugs out the menu when scrolling. Other than that your site looks to be doing great and I love how everything is layed out on the homepage 😉

Maybe you are using a small screen so that you realized that problem
Can you show me a screenshot which you are wanting to talk to?

 

[Tommy M.]

Your site definitely has a lot going on! I see a ton of different things on the front page, I'm usually not fond of the home page being cluttered, though. I'm guessing you're going for a professional look, have you thought about getting a new logo? Generally, the cool text logos aren't that appealing in my opinion. I think your site would look way better with a different logo (you could use the same colors), but maybe with an icon along with it! 🙂

Other than those things, I really like your site! Good luck with it! 😀

As discussed in this thread, today I have got a new logo for http://forumweb.hosting

If possible, don't forget to share your thoughts on this new logo.

Thanks and cheers, :great:

 

[Deleted member 17779]

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[Tommy M.]

Thanks @Frosty the Snowman I am looking forward to reading your reviews about our forum.

Hope to have your honest reviews and don't mind hearing your advice to help improving our forum.

 

[Deleted member 17779]

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Basic Review of ForumWeb Hosting
http://forumweb.hosting/
Review by Grimalkin​

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First Impressions:
My first impression of your site is decent. There are some things I won't discuss here because they will be discussed in greater detail in the next part of the review so I will skip those parts. One thing that I will mention is I liked your banner/header on the main page. I liked the image you use as the "E" in the title. That is very clever when working something like that into the title or the banner/header. I think it actually goes along with the niche` on your site.

Average

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Site Structure:
Okay, when I click on the link, I'm directed to your home page. To me, the home page looks cluttered to me. It seems like all the things that you have on your home page is packed in too tightly and it feel very overwhelming. The only good thing is the navigation bar at the top of the home page to help me navigate your site and let me go where I want. When I scroll over the 'forum' in the navigation bar, I see that I can you have that broke down into sections. That makes things a lot easier, especially if it's a guest who is viewing your forum for the first time. Whether or not a site is easy to navigate, than can frustrate people and not want to look into your site anymore.

Average

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Thing you liked best about forum: Love the banner/header.
Thing you liked least about forum: Too crowded on the home page.

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Overall Mark:

I think your site has lots of potential. Whether your site will become great will depend on the hard work you put into it. I want to wish you and your site the best of luck in the future!​

 

[Tommy M.]

My first impression of your site is decent.

Just curious what is decent on our forum http://forumweb.hosting/ in your mind?

That is very clever when working something like that into the title or the banner/header.

Why you like our forum banners? most people said that they hate banner ads on websites but you are liking banners on our forum, it is weird.

It seems like all the things that you have on your home page is packed in too tightly and it feel very overwhelming

I heard this many times, do you want me to change it to the default theme or traditional forum layouts?

 

[Deleted member 17779]

My first impression of your site is decent.

Just curious what is decent on our forum http://forumweb.hosting/ in your mind?

That is very clever when working something like that into the title or the banner/header.

Why you like our forum banners? most people said that they hate banner ads on websites but you are liking banners on our forum, it is weird.

It seems like all the things that you have on your home page is packed in too tightly and it feel very overwhelming

I heard this many times, do you want me to change it to the default theme or traditional forum layouts?

1) My first impression was decent because there were certain things I liked and certain things I didn't like. Mostly what I didn't like was mentioned in the part of the review where I discussed the "Site Structure".

2) Here, I'm not talking about the ads. I am actually using an ad blocker at the moment so I didn't really see those. I was talking about the header on your site with the title of your site in it. I just thought it looked very good for the type of site you have.

3) I prefer the traditional forum layout but that's just my preferences. I was just stating my personal & professional opinion in the review. Some people may agree with me while others may disagree.

 

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[Tommy M.]

2) Here, I'm not talking about the ads. I am actually using an ad blocker at the moment so I didn't really see those. I was talking about the header on your site with the title of your site in it. I just thought it looked very good for the type of site you have.

I think our forum ad could bypass ad blocker. Just curious what could you see from our forum homepage of http://forumweb.hosting/? Can you share a screenshot from your PC which you have seen on my forum ?

Thanks