GamerTechZone Gaming Forum | Looking for tips and reviews

[CyboCraft]

I am looking for tips to improve my forum, also reviews would be nice. Please point out the things I should / can improve on the website.

Forum Link: http://forum.gamertechzone.net

 

[SarahKik]

Re: GamerTechZone Gaming Forum | Looking for tips and review

My first impression of the forum is that it kind of seems to be lacking in variety of gaming discussions. You have three forums dedicated to specific games/series and then one for what I'm assuming to be general PC Gaming discussion. I'm a gamer, but personally I'm not sure I'd join based off that selection. I've never played Halo or Call of Duty and I'm not much of a PC gamer either so that's already 3 of the 4 gaming forums I wouldn't post in.

If general gaming is your aim, I think you need to expand your areas to offer more discussion. A general gaming area for all consoles/handhelds, an area to discuss games not covered by those 3 gaming forums, etc.

If your target audience is specific gamers, then maybe you could portray that more. In your banner you have some vehicle game, GTA, Assassin's Creed and Prototype and there's only a board for GTA, and not really anywhere else to discuss the other games. You could maybe switch it to a Halo and COD render instead, etc. If you go that route of course 😛

That all being said, I really like the theme 🙂 Looks good for a gaming forum imo. The markers are really nice too. The layout is alright but based on what I mentioned above, it could use some reorganizing depending on what you decide to do, if anything.

Good luck! Hope that was helpful in some way

 

[Moonface]

Re: GamerTechZone Gaming Forum | Looking for tips and review

First of all, graphic design isn't purely computer based, there is plenty of traditional elements to it as well, so I would remove that from the Computer area and place that into General Zone and expand its focus into an overall art area, not just graphics.

The next thing is like Kik pointed out, you have three forum areas for specific games, then one general gaming area that seems aimed at PC gaming. It'd be better to make that just a general gaming area for all games and consoles, and then if you want specific video-game areas, do it for games that are a very popular subject material and get a lot of focus from your members.

I'd also try to get a little consistency with the descriptions of your specific video-game forum areas. GTA has elements in it related to the game, but the other two forums are just a generic "Discuss this game" description. Perhaps consider writing the Halo and CoD ones in a similar fashion to the GTA one. It will help make it look at a glance that you know what those games involve. Currently, it looks like you know about GTA but nothing to describe the other games.

 

[CyboCraft]

Re: GamerTechZone Gaming Forum | Looking for tips and review

My first impression of the forum is that it kind of seems to be lacking in variety of gaming discussions. You have three forums dedicated to specific games/series and then one for what I'm assuming to be general PC Gaming discussion. I'm a gamer, but personally I'm not sure I'd join based off that selection. I've never played Halo or Call of Duty and I'm not much of a PC gamer either so that's already 3 of the 4 gaming forums I wouldn't post in.

If general gaming is your aim, I think you need to expand your areas to offer more discussion. A general gaming area for all consoles/handhelds, an area to discuss games not covered by those 3 gaming forums, etc.

If your target audience is specific gamers, then maybe you could portray that more. In your banner you have some vehicle game, GTA, Assassin's Creed and Prototype and there's only a board for GTA, and not really anywhere else to discuss the other games. You could maybe switch it to a Halo and COD render instead, etc. If you go that route of course 😛

That all being said, I really like the theme 🙂 Looks good for a gaming forum imo. The markers are really nice too. The layout is alright but based on what I mentioned above, it could use some reorganizing depending on what you decide to do, if anything.

Good luck! Hope that was helpful in some way

Thanks for the help, My main goal is a general gaming discussion forum, the banner needs a change, I just dont have the time to do it right now 🙂 Ill work on the forum and improve it with your feedback!