Your Quick Review
Pros
This is definitely your best forum so far. My first impression when visiting was great (when I visited the first time
😛 ) You have 2 very nice themes to choose from. Your activity has been pretty good, could be better but it is far better than you have done in the past. Your layout is also pretty good, but I’m not sure you need a board for food and beverages, maybe it could be a sub board under general discussion. I think off topic should be moved down to The Post Zone as well. Other than that, your layout is really good. I’m sure if you continue to be dedicated this forum can succeed.
Cons
I know I’ve told you some of this before, but I’m saying it again anyway. Not having a banner could put people off joining the forum, it looks incomplete without the banner. If I didn’t know you were the owner, I probably wouldn’t have joined for that reason. The zetaboards one isn’t that bad, but I feel it would look so much better with a custom banner. I see you have a graphic requests board, so you or whoever handles the requests should be able to make a banner. Or you could use some of your FP$ to get one. Why doesn’t it say the community team moderates the bottom 5 boards? There’s not really much point in restricting them from moderating those boards, I assume that was just a mistake. I don’t think you need to have moderated by at all on the forum, Administration and Moderator list will tell you who the staff are. It looks okay how it is but it just clutters the forum in my opinion. I find the default board icons a bit boring, I think custom one’s to match your themes would look much better. Also, instead of naming this board Forum & Host Support and Owning Your Forum, why not just call it Forum Discussion; it’s much easier to understand that way. Also, you still have the default favicon. You should consider getting your own, when people look through their bookmarks do you want to stand out as Geeks Hangout or just another ZB forum? It could be your forums initials, GH, it’s simple and easy. Other than that, you’ve done a really good job making this forum.
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Final/General Thoughts
Good start, make the above changes and I'm sure your forum will continue to succeed.
You should be proud of...
Your theme and activity.
You really need to work on...
Your banner, and everything I mentioned above.
Score - 7/10
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