Basic Review
Site Name: Project Hawick
Site Type: Community forum
Age: 3 Months Old
Appearance
Your theme seems a bit basic underneath the header of the forum to be honest. I would recommend adding some different background colors and see which one will make your site stick out even more. The subtext of the banner seems to be hidden or hard to see with the banner image that you have chosen to use for your forum. Try changing the subtext color to something that maybe stands out a bit more and can be easier to read. Your banner image also seems to pass the navigation bar at the top of it. Try resizing it to fit the header smoothly, that way it won't look out of place when others view it when they visit and join your site. Overall, your sites appearance is pretty decent but there are several things that could use some work on before it can become the best of its kind. Just take all of my suggestions that I have given to you above and you should be able to fix those issues in no time.
Layout
The layout of your site doesn't seem to be very organized because all of the forums seem to be put in the exact same category and not placed into their own specific category. I would suggest adding some more categories and moving those forums into those specific categories. That way, you will have a bit more organized layout for your forum and that way it will be easier for the members and guests as well as your forums staff to be able to keep the site organized clean and free from spammers as well as make it easier on them to be able to maneuver their way around the forum. Overall, your layout seems ok but try adding more categories to clean it up a bit and make the site look a bit more organized and help make the layout look even better.
Statistics and Activity
Your site already has 146 members in 3 months and that is amazing! That means that you have some very successful ways of promoting and keep it up. You also have over 1K posts and about 5 hundred topics. Try getting your members to post more topics and that will help you get more posts as well. Also, try adding a mod that allows you to see who has been there that day. That will help see how active your site is and how the activity is growing and that will show how your hard work is paying off. Overall, your site has wonderful statistics and activity is hard to tell but keep up the great work.
Content
With about 5 hundred topics, you are giving the community a lot of things to post in and that will eventually help get more visits to your site. Try encouraging your members to make more topics to help get more and more posts for your site which will help your site get more visits and members because people want forums that are very active and have lots of things to post in! Overall, your content is very well developed and I would take my suggestion about getting more topics into consideration.
Organisation and SEO
Your site is good in organization but read the Layout part of this review if you want to know more about my suggestions for organization. About SEO, try making some of the threads with something that the search engines will pick up easier and increase the visits that you get on your forum and specific parts of your forum. Also try doing contests that they search engines will pick up on as well to be able to get the web interested in. Overall, you have ok organization and take my advice in SEO to help you get more visits and more members in the long run.
Words from the Reviewer
Overall your site is very good but it has some places that could be worked. On, just take my advice and suggestions and you will be fine! Hope you enjoy your review!
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