Kreative Flow review request
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Twisted Fairytale
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kreativeflow
Up-and-Coming Sensation
? Its been soo long ...
kreativeflow
Up-and-Coming Sensation
Thanks.
How long will this take? 🙂
How long will this take? 🙂
kreativeflow
Up-and-Coming Sensation
Thank Yooou 😀
kreativeflow
Up-and-Coming Sensation
Please ive been waiting ages for this ...
kreativeflow
Up-and-Coming Sensation
Thank you im really looking forward to it 😀
First impressions:
Well in general, I get a good first impression of your site. Overall it looks quite nice, having a domain always gives a good impression. However it isn't perfect by any means. The banner could do with a bit of improving because I don't see why you'd put a line over the R of kreative. Also I don't think the F and the L being joint together looks great. Another thing I noticed is that you have the co.nr linkback on your homepage still, but you now have a domain so surely it isn't needed? Another thing I noticed is that on the portal you say about the userbars. Well half the K is missing on the userbars, and seeing as the forum is a graphics forum I would be put right off by that to be honest. A further improvement I would suggest is getting a new favicon. I don't see what computers have to do with graphic design? However I do like the template you are using and you use the allocated space on the portal very well. Overall the banner is good also but has 1 or 2 minor things I dislike about it. Not bad, but some minor improvements are needed.
10/20
Site layout
You have a couple of issues straight away in my opinion with the layout. I think the announcements section should be above the introduction section and also you don't need two separate sections for feedbback & support/suggestions. Some people might criticise the portal but I don't have a problem with it so I'm not going to deduct marks for that. Overall not too bad.
15/20
Forum Statistics
Well you have been open for a month and a half or so and you have just under 2000 posts and 67 members. They are quite decent stats, however they aren't brilliant. Try every method of promotion possible (link referral, topsites, directories) & join every promotion forum out there. Also packages & post exchanges can be useful as they are guaranteed traffic. On a positive note, you have a lot of active members. Around 20 members have been active today and with the amount of members you have that is very impressive and better then what a lot of forums achieve in terms of active members. You have very solid statistics and I think you are capable of keeping the good work up.
15/20
Staff Moderation
I'll start with the positives. You are the only admin and you have two global moderators, and all three of you are active. Also you are not overstaffed. However in some groups, you are lacking in staff. You don't have any super moderators and also you only have one graphics designer. I would say you need more graphics designers especially as people will come to your site to request graphics and with only 1 graphics team member you will struggle to provide a quick & efficient service. Saying this, your forum is relatively new and I feel confident you will recruit someone new for the graphics team in the near future. To increase your chances of getting new staff members I would also make the recruitment topic (if you have one) a global so it gets as much exposure as possible.
10/20
Spelling/Grammar
You have seemingly made quite a few mistakes in this area. The first mistake I noticed was in the News and Updates section. You say ''Well keep you up'' when it should be ''We'll keep you up''. Also the description for the feedback section doesn't really make sense. Surely you should put one at the end of the sentence? The next mistakes are in the general section. With the competitions you have said competition's in the description when it should be competitions. Same applies to advertisement's in the advertisement section description. Also in that section you spelt subscriptions wrong (subsriptions). Also in the post about the blog, you spelt officially wrong... it wouldn't matter, but that post is on the portal so I would suggest fixing it. Having a quick look, some of the posts also have some badly constructed sentences and the spelling and grammar is an area that may need a little work to maintain a high level of professionalism. Other then the minor mistakes though, no major issues really 🙂
10/20
Final remarks: In my opinion it seems a good forum, but needs a lot of minor improvements. If you can sort the minor problems mentioned in the review out then your forum will be much improved and if you re-request a review, I'm sure you will get a higher mark.
What I liked most about the website/forums: I can't say I had an issue with the style, forumotion styles are usually nice and your forum didn't disappoint in this respect. Also the banner is pretty nice, but does have a couple of errors that have already been mentioned.
What I disliked most about the website/forums: The amount of minor issues there were with the site and the amount of criticism I have had to give in this review because of these things. I also didn't really like the favicon and saw it as irrevelant to the site.
How could you get me to join your site?: Iron out the minor errors basically, however GFX doesn't interest me so I wouldn't stay an active member on your site even if I did join for whatever reason.
Final Score: 60/100
Well in general, I get a good first impression of your site. Overall it looks quite nice, having a domain always gives a good impression. However it isn't perfect by any means. The banner could do with a bit of improving because I don't see why you'd put a line over the R of kreative. Also I don't think the F and the L being joint together looks great. Another thing I noticed is that you have the co.nr linkback on your homepage still, but you now have a domain so surely it isn't needed? Another thing I noticed is that on the portal you say about the userbars. Well half the K is missing on the userbars, and seeing as the forum is a graphics forum I would be put right off by that to be honest. A further improvement I would suggest is getting a new favicon. I don't see what computers have to do with graphic design? However I do like the template you are using and you use the allocated space on the portal very well. Overall the banner is good also but has 1 or 2 minor things I dislike about it. Not bad, but some minor improvements are needed.
10/20
Site layout
You have a couple of issues straight away in my opinion with the layout. I think the announcements section should be above the introduction section and also you don't need two separate sections for feedbback & support/suggestions. Some people might criticise the portal but I don't have a problem with it so I'm not going to deduct marks for that. Overall not too bad.
15/20
Forum Statistics
Well you have been open for a month and a half or so and you have just under 2000 posts and 67 members. They are quite decent stats, however they aren't brilliant. Try every method of promotion possible (link referral, topsites, directories) & join every promotion forum out there. Also packages & post exchanges can be useful as they are guaranteed traffic. On a positive note, you have a lot of active members. Around 20 members have been active today and with the amount of members you have that is very impressive and better then what a lot of forums achieve in terms of active members. You have very solid statistics and I think you are capable of keeping the good work up.
15/20
Staff Moderation
I'll start with the positives. You are the only admin and you have two global moderators, and all three of you are active. Also you are not overstaffed. However in some groups, you are lacking in staff. You don't have any super moderators and also you only have one graphics designer. I would say you need more graphics designers especially as people will come to your site to request graphics and with only 1 graphics team member you will struggle to provide a quick & efficient service. Saying this, your forum is relatively new and I feel confident you will recruit someone new for the graphics team in the near future. To increase your chances of getting new staff members I would also make the recruitment topic (if you have one) a global so it gets as much exposure as possible.
10/20
Spelling/Grammar
You have seemingly made quite a few mistakes in this area. The first mistake I noticed was in the News and Updates section. You say ''Well keep you up'' when it should be ''We'll keep you up''. Also the description for the feedback section doesn't really make sense. Surely you should put one at the end of the sentence? The next mistakes are in the general section. With the competitions you have said competition's in the description when it should be competitions. Same applies to advertisement's in the advertisement section description. Also in that section you spelt subscriptions wrong (subsriptions). Also in the post about the blog, you spelt officially wrong... it wouldn't matter, but that post is on the portal so I would suggest fixing it. Having a quick look, some of the posts also have some badly constructed sentences and the spelling and grammar is an area that may need a little work to maintain a high level of professionalism. Other then the minor mistakes though, no major issues really 🙂
10/20
Final remarks: In my opinion it seems a good forum, but needs a lot of minor improvements. If you can sort the minor problems mentioned in the review out then your forum will be much improved and if you re-request a review, I'm sure you will get a higher mark.
What I liked most about the website/forums: I can't say I had an issue with the style, forumotion styles are usually nice and your forum didn't disappoint in this respect. Also the banner is pretty nice, but does have a couple of errors that have already been mentioned.
What I disliked most about the website/forums: The amount of minor issues there were with the site and the amount of criticism I have had to give in this review because of these things. I also didn't really like the favicon and saw it as irrevelant to the site.
How could you get me to join your site?: Iron out the minor errors basically, however GFX doesn't interest me so I wouldn't stay an active member on your site even if I did join for whatever reason.
Final Score: 60/100
Twisted Fairytale
Retired Administrator
This review is accepted. Because of the time it took to get the review done, cash will not be deducted. ~cheesey_grin~
kreativeflow
Up-and-Coming Sensation
Thanks for the review. Thanks to Twisted Fairlytale too 😀 I have fixed all problems and favicons etc. 🙂
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