Pre-Launch Review
Site Name: Xquizit Information
Site Type: Technology
Age: 1 Month
Appearance
When I first see your board, I am kind of confused. I am confused mainly because I really don't know what your forum is all about. I look at your logo and I see some kind of image, and then the text "xquizit." I am left wondering right there what I am doing on your board or even what it is about. The appearance of the community is a grayish scheme which is okay; however, upon further looking around, I found out the niche was technology. The theme, in my honest opinion, really doesn't fit the niche that well. Touching back to the logo, it might look better if you were to add a padding in the css for the logo to add padding to the top to get it off the header. Overall, it is a good start, but more could be done to it. Something that would be nice to see is some more customization to the theme to make it yours. Starting, it would be nice to see that logo being worked on as I touched on beforehand. The forum icons (in SMF, they are referenced to "on/off.png" in the FTP) could be changed to something that fits your board better. Something like your logo is a place to start. More about this can be read below in the "Layout" part of this review.
Layout
Your layout is that of a SMF powered board. However, as I mentioned in the above section, that doesn't mean you can't put your own twist on it. Here are somethings that I would like to touch on:
- The Google translator is something that can be removed and yet not hurt your board. When looking to get features added to the board, think "If I don't add this feature, is it going to hurt my community?"
- Regarding your post found in the peer-to-peer forum about your forum, you wanted help with your forums. To conserve on space, I will attach an image to the end of this review showing my ideas for placement of your forums. Other than that, I really don't have any more comments about this section.
First Impressions and Interest
As I touched on in the start of the review, I was a little lost at first about your forum. Not knowing what kind of forum you where really threw me off. The name of the forum really doesn't aid in
this and if anything, makes it worse. The first thing that came to mind once I started to look around was how much the forums were moved around. You have forums where forums shouldn't be. I really
don't have any interest because there really isn't anything to be interested about because you haven't added anything "special" yet. The impressions on the theme were that it was basic, maybe too
basic, and the non-existence of any customization done to the board.
Content
This is the area that kind of got to me while skimming over your board. The forum descriptions should be 100% grammar perfect because it is something that your member and guest will read. However, some of them lack proper English grammar rules and lack even a description at all. The grammar in your posts can be improved too. Looking around your forum, there wasn't anything special about your post which could be a problem to your SEO. Work on your grammar in your post and try to add more to your posts too, as they seem too short at times. Other than this, there isn't much to comment on.
Here is the link to the image of my ideas for your forums: http://prntscr.com/px8na
Words from the Reviewer
Continue to work on your theme some more and touch on some of those points that I commented on. Continue to work on your promotion and getting your name out there and things should work out for
you. Work on those posts and you will see good things! I wish you nothing but luck on your project!
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