Headbangers Haven

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Name of Forum: Headbangers Haven
Forum Link: http://hh.2hostu.net
Type of Review : ( Quick Review )
Date Forum Opened: July 10, 2004, 11:00:00 PM
Demo Account for reviewer (Supplied by requester): u/n: FPReviewer, p/w: headbanger
Additional Notes:
Quick review requested as forum has only been online a week after major problems with host.
Lost some stats and had to readd all the mods and still working on some. Activity has taken a major hit.
 
I'll get this for ya. Please give me an hour or so. (But I'm going to aim for about 30 minutes.)
 


Your Quick Review



Forum Pros:
I've got to give you points for originality. The way you have navigation options and forum options wrapper around the actual forum is cool, and works out nicely. For an SMF skin, your skin is very streamlined and modern looking. I don't know why, but SMF skins always look weird to me, but your forum's is very nice. I also liked the karma system and how it was noticeable but not annoyingly placed. Also, I love the fact your news banner was effective but not annoying. I don't like moving ones, and yours didn't move, so good job. You do not appear to be overstaffed. Also, your forum looks fairly active, which is good. I also liked the design of your forum's logo. Goes along with the theme of your forum well. I liked the creative names of your forums and categories. One final note, I liked the design of your Favicon.


Forum Cons:
One thing I noticed is some of your images aren't completely transparent. That makes some of the images not fit in with the rest of the theme. Also, I'm not too sure I like how your affiliate section is set up. Sure people are going too look in there once probably, but after that they'll probably never bother to visit it again. It would be better if it was a standard affiliate box so people had to see them. Another thing that bugged me was the logo. It was unnoticeable, and it's a nice logo and shouldn't be kept off to the left like that. Maybe you should center it. Another thing you even mentioned yourself is the activity which could be improve. Notice in the pros I said fairly active. While 30,000 posts is fine, it could be better for a 5 year old forum. One more con is the General forum. It wasn't clear to me what "The Box" is and there was no forum description.




Final/General Thoughts: It may look like there are lots of cons, but I try to give suggestions in those so the pros outweigh the cons, trust me.

What was most liked about the website/forums: The skin, the neat system of controls being wrapped around the forum, the originality.

What was disliked most about the website/forums: The affiliate box and some images.

Final Score : Score - 7 (Out of 10)


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EDIT: Cool, I actually posted this exactly 30 minutes after. Right on target. :lol: (And not on purpose.)
 
Which images arent transparent?

The Affiliate section was original only tempory, but now i have music affilites, general affiliates, official band and label affiliates are soon so be added. I dont know how i could add that in a affiliate box with all different sized banners and what not.

The Banner im working on, I think its that size and position because of the theme banner, I think ill have to change the code around but im abit reluctant to do this because im afraid of messing up the forum and having it go down again... which cant happen.

I mentioned the activity last night, my forum was dead. Woke up this morning 4 new members and tons of posts 😱

30,000 posts for a forum as old as mine is terrible i admit but we've had so many problems recently. plus the amount of times the forum has been dead over the 5 years. Never given up on it though 😉

I thought i had removed that Box bit. It was originally for movie reviews but no-one really posted in it.

Cheers for the review though.. Will look into things!
 
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