Full Website & Forum? (Or just forum?)

Jake

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Name of Forum: Stellar Recharge
Forum Link: http://www.stellarrecharge.com/forum/
Type of Review ( Quick Review / Forum Review / Blog Review ): Full Website & Forum? (OR just forum?)
Date Forum Opened: 1 month
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First Impressions & Appearance


The first thing that catches my attention when viewing your forum is the contrast between the strong blue colour and the dark grey background. There is nothing really wrong with the blue, but it is clashes too much when used on a dark background. I suggest either toning it down or using a lighter background colour.

The logo itself isn't very interesting, the border on the letters is thicker than the letters themselves which gives the logo an odd feel and makes it a little hard to read. The colour choice for the letter border feels a little odd. It feels like you have pulled too many colours into the forum style. Using 3 colours in the way you have chosen to is a bit overpowering. Having the blue and dark grey as your main colours is fine, but tone down the amount of white and use it as a detail only colour instead.

The blue straight against the dark backgrounds of the category titles makes the titles hard to read. I would suggest just using the same white as used for the descriptions and make the text bolder. The same goes for the glow on the admin and moderator names, they are hardly distinguishable as does for the latest post texts. Alternatively, you could make the background lighter.

You have several small touches on your forum that are nice, such as the read/old markers and the avatar bar. The footer is a little high, but that is a preference.


(Score: 15/20)

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Site Layout


You currently have 4 sections. The first section is the forums Information section containing Announcements, Introductions and Intellectual Chat. The first 2 I don't have any issues with, but having the Off Topic general chat in this section seems a little odd. Why is it not in the community off topic section with the other off topic categories?

The second section is all about StellarDawn. It contains 6 categories, where of each one only contains 1-3 threads. This needs a serious re-think. You could easily get away with a maximum of 2 categories here and really for the amount of posts you only need one.

The next section, Other Jagex, hardly has any threads in it either. You could easily merge all of these into one category. The same goes for the Off Topic Section which can all be merged into the Intellectual Chat category.

Considering the size of your forum you could easily get away with 2 sections. The first containing Announcements and Introductions and the 2nd containing 2 categories that are on topic, one discussing jagex and one off topic. That is really all you need at this time.

(Scored 9/20)

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Statistics and Activity


Your forum has been open for around a month, in that time your stats are:
Our members have made a total of 830 posts in 87 threads.
We currently have 18 members registered.

This gives an average of 46 posts per member. For only being open a month this isn't too bad. But then, that drops to 37 when I remove the amount of posts made by the admin. This still isn't too bad for quite a new forum. But it can definitely get better. One thing I notice is very little threads. Your members seem to be only posting in existing threads instead of choosing themselves to start new discussions. This is where your staff need to be more active and direct them in the right direction. Make more threads and boost discussion. New threads will create new questions and topics, leading to more new threads. You really need to work on your stats, promote more, do some affiliate swaps and such.

(Scored 10/20)

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Staff Moderation


As an admin your activity is good and you are doing well posting around the forum. Your moderator isn't doing as good a job. His post count isn't great and there is certainly more he can do. I don't see any spam, but your forum is small, so it isn't hard to moderate. I don' really see why you need a moderator at all at this stage, but if you are offline for days at a time this is a good idea.

The staff need to work on their interaction with members and boosting of discussions. I would like to see more members running their own discussions and starting their own threads, but this will only happen if they are encouraged by the staff.

(Scored 11/20)

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Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism


The forum doesn't look very professional and I don't get a very professional feel from it. But it does feel like a relaxed community, which I am guessing is the aim of the forum. There are no issues with your spelling or grammar, but the board descriptions do feel a bit commanding and demanding. They are made up of questions and short sentences, I would prefer to see one longer, more friendly sentence.

(Scored 16/20)

Total Score - 61/100


Final Remarks

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Strong Points

Spelling/Grammar and most of the style
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Things to Improve

Small style edits and activity. Layout!
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Looks and Style - (Out of 20)


As already mentioned in the forum review, the blue and grey clash with eachother. I am not going to comment on this again here.

There are small things with the appearance that can give your site a more professional feel and look. Your page doesn't have a title, meaning in my browser I get www.stellarrecharge.com as a title on the tab instead of Stellar Recharge or something similar. This is just a small touch that can do wonders for your site. Under your logo, which I have already discussed, you have a navigation bar and a menu. Both feel a little thick, their heights could easily be decreased by 10px each.

The actual information area is very simple and the text feels quite big. I don't know what font size you are using but it can definitely be lowered a couple of pt. On the front page, the blue >>more link is hardly visible due to the dark background.

The design of all the pages is very simple. On the news page a simple <hr> line that divides each news post would do wonders for the layout and make it much easier to read. The black titles on the Policy and terms pages really doesn't work. It looks out of place compared to the rest of the style.

It is nice to see that you have put effort into a custom style which you have integrated your forum into.

(Scored 14/20)

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Organization and Layout - (Out of 20)


Your site is very simply laid out with one top menu and one bottom menu. I don't have any issues with it. What I do find odd is the front page having an introduction which I have to click >>more on to continue reading, as if it was a blog post. I would rather see on the front page a proper introduction and description of the site, maybe with an image or something that makes it look a little more interesting.

The side bar tells me there is only one piece of latest news, yet when I view the News page I can see that this is not the case. Is there a feed that isn't working or something? The contact us links direct to an email instead of a page with contact details. I would much rather have a page where I can view the email address and choose to copy it into an email if I wish.

(Scored 14/20)

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Content and Information - (Out of 20)


Considering the amount of pages, your website doesn't really contain much information. It is a site for a game that hasn't been realeased, but I do feel you could still have more content than you do. Especially on the front page, you want people to remember your site for later when the game is released, don't you?

The content that is on the site isn't that well written and isn't very interesting to read. There is a lot more that can be done right now, such as writing articles about teasers and such. Information wise, you could easily do some research and write a couple of pages, maybe get hold of some screen shots or something. You need something that is going to create an interest.

(Scored 9/20)

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User Friendliness - (Out of 20)


The site is user friendly, it is a simple site so you can't really go wrong. The one thing that you can improve is the colouring to make it more gentle on the eyes. You can also work on the need to click >>more everywhere to continue reading, this really is annoying. You can solve this with some simple javascript.

(Scored 19/20)

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Spelling/Grammar - (Out of 20)


I don't see many issues with your spelling, but there are some small grammatical things that you can think about. Many things are the same as on your forum. But one thing is the usage of shortenings such as w/ for with. This can be used in gaming terms or on forums, but using this in articles and content on websites doesn't really work. Other than that, no real issues.

(Scored 17/20)
Total Score - 73(Out of 100)


Final Remarks:

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What was most liked about the site:

The style
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What was disliked most about the site:

Content and Information
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How could I get you (The Reviewer) to visit my site?


Not very easy as I don't like gaming.
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