Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
The first thing I notice when loading your page is your banner at the top. Your banner isn't ugly, but it is quite plain. I would recommend redesigning it to make it more unique. A great banner definitely helps you stand out from competing forums. Scrolling down, I see that the rest of the theme is also quite plain. I feel that you would be better off using a different theme entirely.
Getting away from the aesthetic appeal of your forum, I see that you do not have any empty forums on your index. This is good; empty forums can make prospective members view your forum as inactive. Scrolling down, though, your statistics look fairly low at first glance. You may wish to boost your statistics using post exchanges. Prospective members may not realize that your forum is new; they may simply think that your forum is inactive.
Overall, my first impression bordered on negative.
(Scored 8/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
Your index is organized, but it does run a bit long. I see a couple of easy ways to condense your index, though. I would recommend making the "Entertainment" and "Technology" categories into forums. Just merge all the forums under each category into a single forum that is named the same thing as the category they are currently under. I would recommend doing this because those forums don't have very many posts yet anyway. Thus, it would save room and make your forum look more active if you merged these forums together. Other than that, though, your layout looks pretty good.
(Scored 17/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
According to my rough calculations, your forum is receiving an average of about one hundred posts per day so far. That's great! Don't get lazy now, though. You need to keep up on your advertising. I would also recommend doing some post exchanges just for some additional start-up posts. Two possible ways to advertise are services on promotion forums (e.g. banner ads and text ads) and promoting on other general discussion forums (posting around with your signature banner; be careful not to spam these other forums). Also, I would recommend filling up your forums that are empty or close to empty with topics. More topics will lead to more discussion (i.e. posts). Good luck on keeping up your current level of activity.
(Scored 20/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
Currently, your forum appears to employ two administrators. That seems like a good amount of staff members to start with. Both of your members also appear to be very active on the forum at this point. Your staff members appear to be doing a good job of welcoming new members to your forum. That is good; it makes the members more likely to stay. Overall, I think your staffing situation looks good.
(Scored 20/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
You have done a decent job on your descriptions. Most of them are free of grammatical errors (although I can spot a few), and a lot of them make your forums sound interesting. However, there are still some descriptions that are bland. "Come here to post stuff" doesn't sound too exciting. Try to add a little more voice to some of your descriptions that sound boring.
You don't have too many grammar errors, but I see a couple. Make sure that you are using semicolons (
😉 to join two complete sentences together. You cannot use a comma to join two complete sentences; that is called a "comma splice." Also, if you add a comment in parenthesis, the period goes after the parenthesis. You also don't capitalize anything inside parenthesis unless you have a complete sentence within them. If you work on these two errors, you should be pretty good.
(Scored 15/20)
Score - 80 (Out of 100)
Closing remarks: You are off to a pretty good start.
Forum's strong points: Your forum's strongest point is its activity.
Improvements to make: You need to make some improvements to your layout, theme, and forum descriptions.
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