Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance
When a potential user visits your forum, you want them to have excellent first impressions. I honestly had first impressions that weren't excellent, but they were still good. So, I noticed a few things that could possibly be improved or implemented though. First, you have a favicon! That's good. They're essential with websites these days. Why is the favicon a house though? That has nothing to do with promoting, and it doesn't go with the theme, logo, etc. on your forum. The favicon should somehow relate to your forum. Secondly, I certainly like your logo. It's professional and attractive, but I think it would be better without such a monochromatic color scheme. You have red and green in the board icons already so don't be afraid to bring red and green into the logo.
Thirdly, I like the board icons. They fit your forum's genre and they bring in more color. It's always good to see a bit of bright colors amongst the main colors of your forum's color scheme. Fourthly, I feel your forum needs some nice appealing staff rank images. It's just text right now, that's not appealing. Using an image may be typical but you cannot argue with the results. Lastly, I like your forum's theme, but it's so common. Themes like it are used like crazy on MyBB forums. The themes look good, but it just loses the attractiveness once you've seen it so many times. I think you should consider investing into a custom MyBB theme, especially considering there are a lot of MyBB theme designers on this forum who would design a custom theme for your forum very cheaply. Overall, I had decent first impressions, but there are a few issues with your forum's appearance.
(Score: 16/20)
Site Layout
I feel your layout needs some work. It just doesn't seem to be organized too well. You may be trying to be unique by having the board layout different than an average forum, but there's a reason that type of board layout (like the one FP has) is used so much on forums. It works and throughout time it has seemed to prove itself to be the most effective board layout. So, I feel you should have your board layout set up the typical way. I wish you the best of luck with this.
First, I feel you should merge "Feedback & Suggestions" and "Help & Support." Secondly, I think "Introductions" should be moved from the "Community" category to the bottom of the "PromotionBB" category. Thirdly, I think it would be good if you merged the first three boards of the "Advertising & Promotion" category (You could possibly not merge the "Website & Blog Promotion" board) into one board. Fourthly, I feel you should then merge the "Services" category into the "Advertising & Promotion" category. Next, I think you should move the "News Stand" board to the "PromotionBB Extras" category as it seems out of place where it's currently located. Lastly, I feel you should merge the "Graphic Design & Programming" board into the "Art & Graphics" board. Also, you should give the new board a broad term to apply to all arts, eg. writing, designing, coding, etc. Overall, your layout needs work and hopefully you can make some successful changes. Good luck!
(Scored 15/20)
Statistics and Activity
As of right now, your forum has accumulated 3,145 posts in 680 threads by 227 members. That's an average of about fourteen posts per member. That isn't that great honestly, you really need to work on getting members to be active, and stay active as long as possible. Plus, you should try and get all of the inactive members back on the forum. Don't be afraid to sent out an email reminder or two, you never know, they may have forgotten your forum's link or forgotten its existence. Your forum averages nearly five replies per topic. That certainly is a mediocre average as well. It's a bit disappointing really. You'd expect more. I know, those service requests only get a couple replies, so they affect the results quite significantly, but even if you were to excuse the topics and those replies, it still wouldn't even be a decent average honestly. Your forum just isn't active really. You have had sixteen members log in today, but they have only contributed a few posts to the forum. You should encourage posting whenever you can. Don't get obsessed with posts, but remember, posts are still important. Overall, your forum statistics are decent, the averages need improvement, and you seem to be doing a good job trying to encourage posting through competitions, contests, prizes, etc. Good luck making beneficial changes.
(Scored 16/20)
Staff Moderation
Your staff seem to be moderating the forum well. I don't see any issues going on that have not been taken care of. I don't see anything going on that is against your forum's rules. According to your forum's "Forum Team" page, your forum has four staff members. One of the staff members is the administrator, which is you. One of the staff members is a review team member. The other two staff members are package team members. I think you have a good-sized staff team. Young promotion forums normally need more staff members than young forums of another genre to complete services, so your forum having four staff members compared to other forums of the same size only having a couple is no problem. The staff members who complete services should still be contributing to the forum when they don't have service requests though. For example, you have one package team member who has not logged into the forum in ten days. That's unacceptable really, unless this person let you know about the leaving in advance. The review team member hasn't logged in in about five days, that's not too good either. You need to make sure your staff members know that they should still be actively coming on the forum even when they don't have any work to do. Overall, staff moderation is going well, your forum has a good amount of staff members, but the current staff members need to still be contributing to the forum.
(Scored 17/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism
All of the staff members seem to post professionally. They don't seem to make too many posts, but I can tell from the few recent posts they've made. It seems to be more of a casual professional though, in my opinion. Some posts seem to lack proper punctuation and capitalization. It seems to me that the conversations going on are treated as if they're texting conversations, people truly not worrying about being grammatically incorrect or anything. I like it, but it can make your forum look bad, and possibly make people look lazy. I feel you should be a bit more strict on the staff members when encouraging using excellent spelling and grammar though, as what the staff members do affects what all the members do. Members tend to look at the way staff members do things and use them as a guide on how things should be done. It's best to hit the nearest domino and then they'll all fall down, instead of hitting it in the middle and only some of them falling down. I suppose that's a good metaphor. I found a couple spelling and grammar errors. First, I can start right off the bat and just say that I see a bunch of words with unnecessary capitalization in the board descriptions. Don't capitalize things unless it's grammatically correct to do so, or you're creating emphasis. Secondly, the board descriptions seem to be run-on sentences mainly. They should be complete, well-developed sentences. Lastly, in the "News, Announcements & Information" board description, "you" needs to be removed. Overall, your forum comes across having a casual professionalism, but you still need to correct spelling and grammar mistakes, especially in things like board descriptions, important topics, titles, etc. I wish you the best of luck making improvements!
(Scored 16/20)
Total Score - 80/100
Final Remarks
Strong Points
Your forum's professionalism and custom graphics.
Things to Improve
Your forum's layout and activity.
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