Review of sksdesignz.org
Appearance (First Impressions):(
15/20)
The banner you use is good as I like the way it blends into the black background. Also the colour used on the banner fits in well with the theme so it doesn't stand out much and isn't bright so it won't hurt the eyes of someone easy. Moving down to the navigation bar below I reckon it would be better if it was the same width as all the forum (I use a larger screen the most people, or make all the forum fixed width). Since to me it looks a bit out of place. The add underneath the navigation bar are fine. As they don't take much of the space up. But to me it seems to stand out more than the forum banner dose as it's brighter than the rest of the forum (I just notice that not all of them stand out as much). The rest of the page seems fine and all the text is easy to read without any problems.
Layout: (
17/20)
Just looking down the forum list each section has a decent amount of posts in which shows there isn't really any unneeded sections on your forum. You have covered the site forums and the off topic sections which are always helpful for a forum. The GFX areas on your forum even though there are a quite a few they all seem to cover the different aspects that I know of.
Number Of Members: (
7/10)
Your forum has got 133 members. Since your forum has been open since 27th March 2008 you have managed to get quite a few members but I have seen forums get this amount of members in half the time. I reckon this could of been better if you advertise the site more to begin with. As the more members you have the more you get each day/week.
Number Of Posts (Spam or Otherwise): (
9/10)
Your forum has 8338 posts. Which is a good amount of posts as it tells that members are finding it worth while posting on the forum. Which should encourage guest to sign up and post instead of reading the forum as guest.
Moderation:(
8/10)
You have got 1 admin and 3 moderators. A the moment with the current activity I say that this is fine. Since you don't have too many mods and don't have too little. You should keep them as it is until problems arrive or it gets out of control.
Activity:(
17/20)
You seem to have a decent amount of activity on your forum as you have got quite a few posts on your forum during the course of doing this review. I don't think that there's a problem here. But I try and get some members posting more who have a lower post count.
Spelling and Grammar(
9/10)
I notice on quite a few words I seen capital letters in the middle of some words, which I see no point being there and could drive some people away. The other common thing that I expect on most forums is where people miss full stop of the end of an sentence.
Suggestions(Not Marked)
- Make the navigation bar full width or make all the forum a fixed width.
- The ads under the navigation bar shouldn't stand out more than the logo.
- (You could use the package service provided here for more posts.)
- Try and get some members posting more who have a lower post count.
- Try to stop posting with capital letters in the middle of words.
- Try advertising more.
- Add you forum to search engine if you haven't already.
Overall Mark (Out Of 100): 82
Your forum has managed to achieve I high score here. To increase this score when you get a review next time. I recommend that you do what I mentioned above.
