Looking for any suggestions for improvements

[Joshua Farrell]

http://directadvertisement.proboards.com/

People has been telling me to improve my forum, but never tells me on how to improve. So I would like know what people think.

What would help me out:

• Color Suggestions that I can use to make the forum look more appealing.
• Coding Suggestions that I can probably use, to help with how things look.
• Image Suggestions that I can probably use, to help with how things look.
• General Suggestions on improvement.

What Wouldn't Help Me, and will be reported:

• Getting Off Of Proboards AND/OR Switching to a different host.
  I currently don't have funds to make a forum on an actual PAID host.
• Improving the layout without giving suggestions on how to improve it.
• Improving the Colors without giving suggestions on possible colors.
• Improving the images without telling me what type of images needs to be improved on.
• And any other suggestion that doesn't actually help.

 

[Cam]

To be honest, the forum reminds me of a newspaper. The forum colors are sort of bland. I mainly see gray and white, with a little black. That's boring colors. It looks to me that you are going for neutral colors, which is good, but maybe you should have one decent main color, like blue, etc. Or maybe, you can change the color combination completely. Skins tend to remind of painting. When painting a room, you want a great combination of colors. This website may help you with coming up with good color combinations: http://www.colorcombos.com/

Good luck. 🙂

 

[Joshua Farrell]

Never thought how the gray color, and the basic design made it look like a newspaper. I will get back to you once I have used my test forum for blue combinations.

 

[Acorn]

I would try a catchy looking logo. Even something simple, other than just the name typed out like that.

If it were me, I'd reduce the forum's width to no wider than 1000 pixels {my own forum is 900 wide and this forum is I believe also 900 wide} and ditch the side bar. It just looks messy.

 

[Joshua Farrell]

Actually it is a 100% width. Should fit everyone's screen.

Removing the sidebar will kinda remove the text advertising service I decided to do.

 

[Solidus]

Get a domain and a theme that doesn't look like a 90's webpage. I just can't take your site seriously.

 

[Joshua Farrell]

Updated Everything.

Aside from getting a better designed banner, anything needing comments on?

 

[VS Tyrant]

It needs more personality. Colors, graphics, maybe a homepage would help. It's just too bland.