Name of Site: Ivandis Site Genre: Private Server Site URL:http://ivandis.com/ Type of Review (Full/Quick/Questionnaire): Quick Opening Date: Erm, a month old? Additional Notes: Have fun. 🙂
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Forum Design
Upon first visiting Ivandis, I was pretty amazed by the creative theme choice for your forum. Although I didn't know what the forum was about, the theme seemed to fit any site genre so either way, the design was still something that benefited your site. Another thing that I liked was the creative banner design that you have with the 'I' being slanted and designed to look like a blade. That was a very creative thought indeed. One thing though that I feel you could do better with your banner, is making it a bit larger. I feel that the banner is just slightly too small and could easily be skipped over and a user wouldn't even notice it. However, I don't see anything wrong with it being the size that it is, I just think a larger banner may benefit a bit more on the long run. Anyways, looking at the rest of your design, the background works well with the dark colors you have chosen and the banner fits nicely with the light text outline on the dark navigation bar. Overall, I would have to say your biggest strength is your design.
Site Statistics
The 2nd site strength I found in Ivandis was the statistics. If your forum was opened up only around 1 month ago, the stats that your site has achieved in such a short period of time hare tremendous. You have 3,970 posts and 91 members. You are almost at 100 members and almost 4,000 posts! That averages out to be about 40 posts per member which is outstanding statistics for such a young website that only recently opened up to the public. Also seeing as how your most users online in the past sits at 39, which is very good. This shows that you are promoting very nicely and effectivly trying to get more visitors and essentially hoping to make the viewers, actual members. Which at the rate you are going, I do not see that being an issue. Overall, I felt this was a close 2nd and by far a very hard decision to decide between your design & stats to be ranked in the number 1 spot but your design just showed a bit more and that is why your stats have been ranked #2. So, now let's move onto the weaknesses of Ivandis.
Weaknesses:
Site Activity
Personally, I feel that the site activity is lacking a bit. Your statics are outstanding, but without the active members to keep those statistics going up, in a matter of months, if your stats remain around the same level that they are now, your overall popularity of your website and just the activity will drastically drop. With that said, I don't see this being a big deal as your site is also based around a 'Private Server' so obviously it isn't just meant for the public, you have a specific thing built around your website. But I just feel that your activity is lacking compared to the stats you have, if you can keep your members active and posting properly, Ivandis will go far. So overall, I don't see your site activity being the worst thing, just something I feel should be tended to and worked on a bit here and there but not something that needs to take absolute priority at the very moment.
Final Remarks:
Ivandis was a nice site to get to review, I was very interested in the design and blown away by the statistics that your site has gathered up. I just feel that your only weakness at the moment is your site activity. Thus why you only have one weakness and not 2. This was also a new site genre for me to get to review so it was a bit more difficult to find more weaknesses as I am not familiar with such genre's. So in the future, maybe more weaknesses will show up but in the mean time, I hope you enjoyed your review and I hope my suggestions & comments will help Ivandis grow more in the future!
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