Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance
-I’d like to start off by acknowledging the theme. It’s an interesting color set. Definitely not bad, but intriguing because you don’t really find many green and brown looking forums. The leaf and ladybug patters combine with the interesting colors to give you a totally unique theme which wins you some serious points in my mind.
-The banner is really nice. It matches the theme and includes the title and the nice slogan, so it really takes care of business.
-The black colored box above the stats section doesn’t really go with the forum. Change it to the same color as every other section to keep things looking good.
(Score: 18/20)
Site Layout
-I think the section for new members should come after the Community Related Matters section, as the latter deals with important announcements and messages from administrators, assuming I’m seeing that correctly.
-I’m just curious how you organized the second and third categories. What makes sports and interest, but not entertainment? It just feels like the naming isn’t clear and I could argue that you could switch several forums around. It also looks odd that you have one category with a lot of forums and then the next category only has three.
(Scored 14/20)
Statistics and Activity
-Your statistics are great. After a little more than a month, you have amassed well over ten thousand posts. Things couldn’t be going much better as far as I’m concerned. It looks like all your promoting has paid off.
-The “Home and Garden” and “Role Play” forums are lacking a bit of activity, but most other sections are okay. Try to encourage posting here by making topics and even posting announcements that shed light on those two sections.
-If you really want to expand, I’d try holding a topic contest. That will net you tons of posts in the long run, new members, and a lot of fun. Totally optional, and I can understand dishing out money for an already active forum may be pointless, but it could help you take it to the next level.
(Scored 18/20)
Staff Moderation
-Having a close-knit team of this size is more or less perfect for forums of this size and activity. There will usually be someone on that can handle any trouble. Unless you see an increase in activity or problems, keep the team the way it is.
-Drogba isn’t what I’d call an active staff member. I realize what his duties entail, but I think he would be more of an asset to the forum if he was more active. That should be a natural requirement of staff, regardless of their specific job.
(Scored 17/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism
-One of the first things you ever learn about writing is that you need to have punctuation at the end of every sentence. You need to add periods when appropriate and make sure not to end a sentence with a comma.
-In the description of “Debate Section”, make sure you only capitalize the first letter of the first word of every sentence. The same goes for “Role Playing…”
-In the description of “Technology”, change “modern day” to “modern-day”.
-In the description of “Sport…”, change “sport related” to “sport-related”.
-The description of “News From The World” is downright pointless. Why repeat the title? Say something new that will encourage someone to post there.
-In the description of “Home and Garden”, add “, and” before “your neighbourhood”.
-Remove the comma in the description of “Stupid…”
-In the description of “Art and Graphics”, change the description from “Do you paint? Use photoshop? Post your work here.” To “Do you paint or use photoshop? Post your work here.”
-You spelled “winning” wrong under “Member to hit 1,000 posts”
(Scored 5/20)
Total Score - 72/100
Final Remarks
Strong Points
-The stats are pretty good and the forum looks great.
Things to Improve
-The grammar is awful. I loved the forum until I got to that section. As someone as anal about proper writing as I am, it’s a killer to see all of that hard work seem to go to waste with poor writing skills or laziness.
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