Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
Your forum is absolutely gorgeous. The background image is very high quality and appropriate for your forum, and the fade-out effect makes it look even better. Your entire forum having that transparent effect gives it an excellent feel. Your Twitter and Facebook buttons look professional. Your logo is nice and simple. All your icons look good against your forum, and you even have set a favicon. Your forum’s skin is overall very excellent. The only minor thing I can suggest is that the gray thread rating stars don’t go well with the background. That’s really not important at all, however.
(Scored 19/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
Your domain name is a custom one, which is good to see forums have. Also, you don’t have a ton of unneeded subforums, and your forums are categorized well. One thing that seems like it could be removed is your arcade, though. That really doesn’t make sense on a soccer forum (considering there aren’t even soccer games in it), there are only a couple of games, and it just seems buried away. There’s no real need for it. I do like your signature of the week thing, as it gives a neat way to congratulate members. However, it bugs me that there’s one or two pixels between it and the bar above it. One more annoying thing is that your forum isn’t fluid, but because your background image is great, that problem is dwarfed.
(Scored 17/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
Your post count is on par for a forum of your age. I’d guess you’ll hit 10,000 by next month, which is a huge achievement. You’ve got like 200+ members registered, which is outstanding. However, keep in mind, post activity is more important than member count. It’s good to see you have an RSS feed, because lots of people will keep up with your forum. The more they are reminded about your forum, the more they’ll be encouraged to post. So, just keep in mind, encourage people to post, and I think you will do well.
(Scored 17/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
OK, you have way too many staff members. ForumPromotion only has 4 admins, yet you have 5. You also have 3 super moderators. Why? One of your administrators only has 22 posts. How can you be sure of their abilities when they only have 22 posts? Also, they haven’t been on in over a month. Another one hasn’t been on in over a week. While they don’t seem to harm the forum, I don’t see why you have so many on your team.
(Scored 14/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
I did notice a few errors. Here are a couple as examples:
“New to Footyaddict? Why not make this your first post and let everybody know who you are, who you support and any hobbies you have.” should be, “New to Footyaddict? Why not make this your first post, and let everybody know who you are, who you support and any hobbies you have?
“If you are experiencing any problems with the forum or have any ideas about how we can improve Footyaddict, please let us know.” should be, “If you are experiencing any problems with the forum, or have any ideas about how we can improve Footyaddict, please let us know.”
“However please do not post links to other football forums.” should be, “However, please do not post links to other football forums.”
Please note, while I am aware in the UK that lists do not put a comma before the conjunction, I am conventional to US English, so if these are correct in the UK, I do apologize.
(Scored 18/20)
Total Score - 85 (Out of 100)
Final Remarks: N/A
What was most liked about the website/forums: The appearance.
What was disliked most about the website/forums: Overstaffing
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to join my website? Nothing would stop me.
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