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Overall mark for Appearance 5.8/10
Seeing as this is a forum review, I’ll be reviewing your forum only and skipping your front page. Being honest, I don’t quite like the current look of your forum. It could definitely look a lot better if many improvements and changes are made. For example, the colors are extremely bright. My eyes can certainly handle them however, many other peoples’ eyes cannot. I can see your reasoning for having these type of colors though (because your name is “icygamers”). I’d suggest going with a slightly darker shade of blue, and maybe add in some silver. The banner is quite plain, and I’m sure you can get someone here to make you a better looking one. You could also use a favicon.
Overall Score for Layout 5.5/10
You have much too many categories. I’d suggest having only 3 categories for your forum, because having too many only makes your forum look inactive. In addition, your current categories seem to be all mixed out and out of order! From looking at the names of your boards, I can see that your forum is an FPS/Coding/Design forum. If that’s the case, you should have a category for gaming, a category for coding, and a category for designing. The “Clans” category is useless, so I’d suggest removing that.
Overall Score for Number of Members 5.2/10
Seeing as your site is about 3 months old, 31 members is a horrible number for a forum that age. I’m assuming you haven’t done enough promotion & advertising, or people just turned away after viewing the appearance your forum.
Overall Score for Number of Posts 5.6/10
317 by 31 members is not that bad, to be honest. That comes out to be about 10 posts per member. Sure, 10 posts from each member is little, but by judging from the size of your forum, it doesn’t really matter.
Overall Score for Moderation 8/10
Looks like moderation is fine. You have one admin running this forum, and you should try and keep the amount of moderators to one (if you already have one moderator, that’s great!).
Overall Score for Activity 2/10
Activity on your forum is a real issue. The last post made was on the 1st of January, and the rest of the posts were last made before that. In addition, there were only 4 users who logged into the forum during the past 168 hours. I’ll suggest doing post exchanges regularly to give your forum more activity.
Overall Score for Spelling and Grammar 7.5/10
Your spelling seems to be fine, however, you do have some grammatical errors here and there. Don’t forget to use capitals when you need to, and don’t forget your periods!
Overall Score: 45.4/70
Conclusion
Your forum seems to be in a current state of mess. It certainly needs a re-vamp. To be honest, there are many big gaming forums out there, and if you want your forum to go anywhere, you’ll need to act fast. Do post exchanges, get backlinks, advertise & promote a lot more, and get your family & friends to join.
Best of luck with icygamers!
Seeing as this is a forum review, I’ll be reviewing your forum only and skipping your front page. Being honest, I don’t quite like the current look of your forum. It could definitely look a lot better if many improvements and changes are made. For example, the colors are extremely bright. My eyes can certainly handle them however, many other peoples’ eyes cannot. I can see your reasoning for having these type of colors though (because your name is “icygamers”). I’d suggest going with a slightly darker shade of blue, and maybe add in some silver. The banner is quite plain, and I’m sure you can get someone here to make you a better looking one. You could also use a favicon.
Overall Score for Layout 5.5/10
You have much too many categories. I’d suggest having only 3 categories for your forum, because having too many only makes your forum look inactive. In addition, your current categories seem to be all mixed out and out of order! From looking at the names of your boards, I can see that your forum is an FPS/Coding/Design forum. If that’s the case, you should have a category for gaming, a category for coding, and a category for designing. The “Clans” category is useless, so I’d suggest removing that.
Overall Score for Number of Members 5.2/10
Seeing as your site is about 3 months old, 31 members is a horrible number for a forum that age. I’m assuming you haven’t done enough promotion & advertising, or people just turned away after viewing the appearance your forum.
Overall Score for Number of Posts 5.6/10
317 by 31 members is not that bad, to be honest. That comes out to be about 10 posts per member. Sure, 10 posts from each member is little, but by judging from the size of your forum, it doesn’t really matter.
Overall Score for Moderation 8/10
Looks like moderation is fine. You have one admin running this forum, and you should try and keep the amount of moderators to one (if you already have one moderator, that’s great!).
Overall Score for Activity 2/10
Activity on your forum is a real issue. The last post made was on the 1st of January, and the rest of the posts were last made before that. In addition, there were only 4 users who logged into the forum during the past 168 hours. I’ll suggest doing post exchanges regularly to give your forum more activity.
Overall Score for Spelling and Grammar 7.5/10
Your spelling seems to be fine, however, you do have some grammatical errors here and there. Don’t forget to use capitals when you need to, and don’t forget your periods!
Overall Score: 45.4/70
Conclusion
Your forum seems to be in a current state of mess. It certainly needs a re-vamp. To be honest, there are many big gaming forums out there, and if you want your forum to go anywhere, you’ll need to act fast. Do post exchanges, get backlinks, advertise & promote a lot more, and get your family & friends to join.
Best of luck with icygamers!
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