Pre-Launch Review
Site Name: Today's Gamer
Site Type: Gaming Forum
Age: 3 Days Old
Appearance
Lets start this review off by going over the pros and cons of your appearance and seeing if you have some places to work on with the appearance. I love your forum's banner. It sticks out and the "T" and the "G" are bolded and designed differently to stick out to the audience and grab their attention. I love the forum background that you used because it implements various different games that are very popular these days and that will surely get the attention of many people when they visit your site if they are greatly involved with video games. I love the icons that you used to show if a forum was new or locked. Using the "TG" from your banner really makes your icons look more unique and designed for the forum so that your site will be a 1 of a kind forum. Your forum favicon image though is hard to see what exactly it is. Try seeing if you can't use the "TG" as the favicon as well. Overall, your appearance is very outstanding and lets move onto the layout of your forum.
Layout
The layout of your forums is pretty good. As I mentioned before, you have done a great job using the "TG" from the banner as the icons for the forum and make it as unique as possible. You have also done a great job with making a good amount of forums for people to post in and keeping them organized into the correct/corresponding category. That way there will be no confusion for others and that will really help the site grow in the long run. You have done a great job with the navigation bar as well. You have used various tabs for the navigation bar and have added some very important ones to it as well to help navigate the guests and members to the correct link that they want. Overall, you have done a fine job with your forums layout and lets move onto my first impressions and interestes in your site.
First Impressions and Interest
My first impressions upon entering your forum were astounding. The theme really hooked me at first sight and just looking at the banner, navigation bar design and the appearance and layout of your forum really grabbed me and wanted me to keep looking. I looked around for a while and the main thing that interested me was the background image that you used because I know most of the games that you used so I could relate to it a lot and it really just made me smile by the amazing and unique design of the forum. The only thing that I think should get some work done on would be the content but with the forum only being about 3 days old it isn't that big of a deal. Overall, your forum really caught my attention and really got me interested upon first glimpse. Lets move onto the content of your forum and then we will wrap up the review.
Content
Your forum doesn't have much content to start with because your forum is still very young and very new. I would try getting some posts in all the forums just to fill them up so that you won't have to worry about that later. You can also request a package here at FP to get some more topics and posts for your forum to give your members and members to come something to post in and keeping them active and wanting more and more from the site. There isn't much content at this moment but just take my advice on getting a package and keeping members active and give them something to post in as much as you can. Lets move onto my final words before we wrap up the review.
Words from the Reviewer
Overall, Today's Gamer was a very unique forum and very fun to review an get the chance to give my advice and my thoughts. Keep up the great work and I hope you enjoy your review.
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