Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
First thing I'm greeted with was the ugly pop up telling me to register, for me there is no need for this and can and will put off visitors, after that the sites banner is really well designed and fits in with a nice phpBB theme, although why your background is the picture of playing cards is beyond me but I assume it comes with the theme you have, you want to look at getting rid of the register pop up and having a background do to fit with what you site is about. Also the ranks you have don't fit a dark background look at getting some done to fit your style.
(Scored 13/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
The overall layout is rather good I like that you have added icons to each forum which goes with what that section is about, if I was to say anything is that your forum descriptions are rather short, also the quieter sections look at making them sub forums to shortened the length of the board index, I also like how you have done you affiliate section as being on a freeforum host you are limited to what you can do, so well done on your initiative.
(Scored 18/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
Well I waited till Sunday to do the review as it's 8 months since you opened, and your Statistics are pretty impressive, you are still averaging 84 posts a day, which is no mean feat, there were plenty of users online when I visited when I was there, the only thing that let's you down is out of your 162 members over 50 of them have never posted, you need to look at either deleting the users who have never visited/posted or look at trying to get them to come and post.
(Scored 18/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
For the size of your memberlist the 4 moderators you have is more that enough, it's also good that all your moderators seem fairly active and have a good post count, Your site looks to be well maintained by yourself and your staff and with out reading every post, I could not really find fault with your moderation.
(Scored 19/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
Very good, I spent a good half hour reading through posts and could not really find any major spelling and grammar errors, and it was nice to read a whole topics without trying to work out what someone was on about through bad spelling on text speak, well done on this it was a real pleasure to review the site.
(Scored 20/20)
Total Score - (88 of 100)
Final Remarks:
Overall I really like your site and really enjoyed reviewing a site, that seems to have become well established, if you did the minor tweaks, such as new background, new ranks and get rid of the pop up, then your next review would be in the mid-90's, the only other thing that concerned me is that you are using out of date software, phpBB 2 stopped being supported some time ago, for security and for better features etc you really need to see if your hosts allow you to upgrade to phpBB 3.0.7, if they do look at doing it asap.
The other thing is look at getting away from free forum and getting your own domain and hosting and then you will be free to do whatever you want to your site.
What was most liked about the website/forums: The impressive post count and the sites banner.
What was disliked most about the website/forums: The register pop up and the posting ranks.
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