Your Quick Review
Pros
- One of the pro's for the forums is that it is active. Not as active as I expected, but for a forum based on an online arcade, it's alright. More advertising of the forum could get in it a better position.
- The overall appearance of the forums is decent, and the colors aren't too dull nor are they too bright. What I liked about the theme was that the table headers on the forum theme somewhat matched up with the table headers on the main site. If the table headers of the main site are exactly the same as the forum ones, it would look awesome!
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- The professionalism is also great, but you could use a bit more constructive words. Let's take the forum rules for example, there is this one sentence "Nobody can swear on this forum we do have filter to stop abusive language but some language is not detected by the filter and you can not phrase the word into something else like sh*t or use any language which is inappropriate." You could have easily said something like "Members are expected not to use abusive/disruptive language while having their stay at our forums. Even though we do have a word filter system that will filter out abusive words, we do not expect members to swear here."
Cons
- The banner could do with some changes. Your forum banner is way different than your main site banner, and I think if a website is going to have a forum, the banner should look somewhat similar to the main site's banner. Maybe you could get a new logo made for your forum and website so that they will both look similar but be in different sizes.
- Like I've mentioned before, the idea of having the same table header colors is cool and all, but by having them have the exact same look and colors would work even better for you.
- Forum information images could use some work aswell. The current forum information images look very retro and by maybe adding something like the joystick in the banner, it would look better. If you are puzzled on what I mean by forum information images, I'm talking about these:
- The Favicon could also use some work. The current Favicon looks really bland and boring and you could maybe put something like a game disc as the Favicon.
Final/General Thoughts Overall the forum looks decent, but it could use some final adjustments.
You should be proud of... the amount of activity your forum has. I've seen most forums based on websites and they don't even pass 1,000 posts.
You really need to work on... the banner. The banner needs to look similar to the one found on the homepage imo.
Score - 7/10
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