Basic Review
Site Name: FragWars
Site Type: Tech Site
Age: ~ 5 Months
Appearance
When I first came to your site, I felt like your site's design looked pretty good overall. The colors worked well with each other, and it appeared to be quite organized. Upon looking further, I came to a conclusion that the blog portion of your website appears to look great! It is very easy to navigate, and the design (with exception to the glitch I had, see post above, which would revert it to a theme with a dark banner with your logo) was uniform throughout! Great job! However, I had one problem with your website's appearance: the forum. To me, the forum appeared to be a little website within a website. It did not flow with your website's design like your blog seamlessly did. There are two possible fixes for that: finding a theme that will blend in better, or (possibly the better option, since your website is more blog oriented) you could just change up some of the colors in it. I recommend first changing the background to match the white body space of your website. I would also say it would be best to see if you could get rid of the space for the banner all together within you forum, since your forum currently features both its own banner and your website's banner.
Layout
As I mentioned previously, your blog is extremely fluid and easy to navigate. Therefore, it features a pretty strong layout. However, I have one thing I think you should consider changing for your blog. Each page features a "Steam News" section, however I do not think that applies to everyone. Since on some pages that section makes the page longer than it could be without, I highly advise that you remove that section from every page (except perhaps the homepage, if you want it there). Let's move onto your forum next. Overall, the board layout of your forum is pretty strong. I do think you should consider revising the order of boards in the gaming section. The reason for this is that your specific games feature an image, and the "Platforms" board is breaking up the image pattern. I think it would be better suited to be placed above the "Counter Strike" board. Apart from these things, your website has a strong layout!
Statistics and Activity
This is probably your websites weakest area. For one, your forum has only 81 posts in a total of 5 months. These are extremely low numbers, as that is roughly averaging about 3.5 total posts a week. Additionally, the majority of the posts are made by you (62 of 81) Ideally I would want to see numbers at least over 1,000 posts. I think the easiest solution for your lack of activity is to really push the advertising on promotion forums, such as here. One of the strongest tools we offer includes our fantastic Package Team, as well as our member and FP cash exchange. These services allow you to receive posts on your forum, which could help give your forum the spark it needs. As of currently, your blog statistics look like you are averaging roughly one a day, which is pretty good. However, be sure to keep this up, as I noticed you took a break in there for over a month. Active readers will see this as an inactive blog in that case and will surely leave your site. Be sure to actively post in your blog and your forum for the best success.
Content
Your content looks decent, however it could use a little work. For one, some of your articles seem quite rich in terms in content. I enjoyed reading these. A good amount of them were a little short though, in my personal opinion. I would encourage you to try and increase the word count in all of your postings while still keeping them interesting. I also noticed that some sections of your blog feature content-less sections, such as the video, or cell phone sections. If you are not going to post content in these sections, there is no need to have these sections. However, it is more preferable to increase content in these sections.
Organisation and SEO
Your forum's organization is quite fantastic, as mentioned a couple of times now. I really like how everything is laid out, and everything has been placed logically throughout the website. I have not run in to any issues regarding the organization with your website (with exception to a few content-less sections). I really cannot make too many more comments for you here than what has already been said.
Words from the Reviewer
I think your website has a lot of potential, but is lacking one key ingredient: the activity. In fact, that may be the only thing holding you back. If you can fix the issues stated in the review, hopefully it can get you going in the right direction. Best of luck!
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