please review my site

Number Of Members: I notice that you have been open for at least 4 months and have 33 members. I don't think that is really impressive, I've seen forums that have more than 30 members in at least a month or two. I really want you to advertise more often and submit your forum to search engines and topsites. Also find any type of contest that seems to reel members in. 4/10

Number Of Active Members:The amount of active members is really at it's minimum. According to a MOD that you have on the portal, it seems that you had 3 active members out of 33 members in the past 24 hours. As I suggested above, I really hope that you add contests and new content into your site, which will improve activity, also sending mass emails. 3/10

Number Of Posts (Spam or Otherwise): When I look at the amount of posts and the time this forum has been open, I think its pretty great. But, some of your posts are dated back quite a while, I suggest adding content to the forums with old content. 7/10

Appearance (First Impressions):When i first look at the forum, I think the dark skin is great for your type of forum. It makes it look mysterious, except for the logo, which doesn't have anything related to your forum. It seems to show a picture of Voldemort( I don't know how to spell it) which I think doesn't revolve around the forum. Also, on your portal, I think that the pictures of different paranormal things should be removed or moved to a different place, because of the space that the one picture takes up. Also I hope you are going to change the logo. 13/20

Layout: The layout of the forum is not good, seeing that all your forums are not in any particular order. Also every forum seems to be on its very own category. You should try to order the forums and delete some of the categories, moving your forums to another category that relates to the topic. As for the portal, I think the portal is really unorganized and the menu also confuses me. You should remove the chatbox or put it as a link on your menu, which you can redirect to another page. 5/20

Moderation: The moderation of your forum is fair, having 1 Admin and 2 moderators, I think you wouldn't need to hire any more staff in the coming future until the 100 member mark. But theres a downside, which is that one of your staff members have been inactive for a while. You have to remind your staff member about the forum as well. 8/10

Activity: I notice that the activity is really and it's downfall, one of your moderators weren't on for quite a while. Most members are also never on, having 1 member at a time. You can try to mass mail everyone, calling the mass mails newsletters for those who haven't been on for a really long time. 4/10

Spelling and Grammar The spelling and grammar is a major part that you need to improve on. Every letter in any word on the forum is just capitals. It doesn't make is look attractive, and that you have to improve the COPS ( Capitals, Organization, Punctuation, Spelling ). Also, posts made by the Administrator of the site, are really bad, they have to improve the English they use, although the spelling is alright. Also, the rules forum has improper English. If you were to want to reel in more members, i suggest you improve the English on everything on the forum, and your posts. Although, the moderators have better English, which sort of helps. 5/10

Overall Mark (Out Of 100): 46/100. I really hope you improve your forum in the future. Follow my suggestions and your forum is going to go smooth sailing. Good luck on your forum!

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Oh, so do i reject him?
No, since you already did the review. If he doesn't pay it, we can always take his cash into the negatives.
 
thanks for the honest review,
the reason i asked for it was because participation has become pretty slow over the past few weeks.
to address the points you have suggested and reccomended,
i have submitted the site to the main search engines such as google, msn, yahoo and many other smaller ones. i have posted links on other sites and advertised on several promotion sites like this one.i spent hours last night ading my site to more and will continue to keep adding to search engines and top site lists.

i run a weekly scramble and add questionaires regularly but they dont go down too well.

i send bi weekly news letter to my members to remind them of whats been going on on the site and to encourage them to participate and have a top poster once a month where they get their own forum until the following month as a reward to post the things that interest them.

as for content, i add new content practically every day, i try to keep the site updated on all the different aspects of the paranormal by constantly searching for new content and shareing it on the site.
i do go over the unanswerd posts from time to time and add comments and actually start by saying "lets talk" , but it seems to be the same few members responding all the time.

the appearance of my site is pretty limited as im brand new to html and css, but i do create my own headers and banners which i change regularly to keep a kind of fun eliment to it.
i chose this layout to represent space and ufology without pushing it in their faces.
because i am new to css i am limited to my know how of what to add instead of the sky scraper banners but hopefully i can improve on that in time.

i will take on board what you said about the chat box when i can figure out something to replace it lol.

the moderation has been lax of late because of personal issuses and moving home but in general they are usually pretty good.

i will be sure to improve on the grammer, however about the forum titles and sub catagories, i was told it was better to use sub catagories other than people opening a forum and being bamboozled by the amount of posts which may be quite off putting, however i will take the time to address this and see if i cant organise it a bit better.

thanks again for your time and support.

can you please explain this "cash" thing to me plz, i havent a clue what that is all about and dont want to be causing any problems for anyone.
thanks x
 
erm i think i payed it right ~confuse~
thanks xxx
 
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