Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance
When a potential user visits your forum, you want them to have excellent first impressions. I had pretty good first impressions myself, but I have a few tips that will help bring my first impressions up to excellent, as in excellence that deserves a high five. First of all, I like your logo. Everything looks pretty nice with the logo except for the gradient on the slogan. I think the gradient is a little too strong really. I think it'd look better if you softened the gradient up a bit, and had the color match it with the theme and the favicon. Secondly, I like your favicon. It matches the forum and looks very professional. Thirdly, I like your forum's simplicity. The forum is very simple, it's easy to understand for those people new to scripts. Fourthly, I like your forum's basic header. It isn't an advanced header, it's not awesome, but it gets the job done. Fifthly, I like your forum's icons. They are glossy and appealing. Sixthly, I feel you should spice up your rules topic. It's too basic, you need to have much more in depth rules. That was actually one of my first impressions while browsing your forum. Lastly, I am a pretty big fan of your forum's new custom theme. You did a great job with it. It looks pretty basic, but it's at the perfect level of basic really. It's nice and attractive; also, let's not forget, it really goes with your forum's genre. Overall, I had awesome first impressions, but they weren't the absolute best. Good luck!
(Score: 18/20)
Site Layout
Your forum's layout could use a bit of work. A couple boards really could be merged. Your forum has a total of twenty-one boards in five categories. Considering your forum's activity and other certain factors, twenty-one boards is a little too many for comfort. I really suggest making a few changes to the layout so you can reduce the number of boards by removing unnecessary or inactive boards and ultimately improving your forum. First off, I don't really understand why you have "Feedback & Support" and "Contests & Sale Related" as sub-boards of "Community Desk." Generally, your forum's community desk should be for important announcements, updates, etc. Normally with staff members creating topics in it, and sometimes allowing replies. I don't understand why you have placed two sub-boards in it; especially a sub-board like feedback & support. If you treat feedback & support seriously, you should probably give it its own board. I know adding more boards contradicts what I said before, but feedback & support is so important that I think it is an exception. Secondly, I feel it would work best in your forum's favor if you were to improvise some and figure out what boards need to go and what boards need to stay. How do you decide? It's pretty simple, if certain boards are receiving little to no activity (inactive basically) the board should probably go. It's normal to have certain boards more active than the others, but there's a line that needs to be drawn when it comes to that. Thirdly, I really feel you could merge a couple boards in the "Resources" category. For example, the "Graphic Tutorials" board only has fourteen posts in it. It hasn't had a reply to it in about two weeks, so it really doesn't need to stay or at least if you want to keep it, you should keep it active. Lastly, I think it would be nice for your forum to have a "General Scripts Discussion" board in the "Scripts Discussions" category. Why? It would be nice for threads such as "Favorite script?," "Worst script you have ever downloaded?," etc. You could also then merge Script Tutorials with it, and maybe expand on such things. Overall, it's not bad, but some changes could be made. Good luck!
(Scored 15/20)
Statistics and Activity
As of right now, your forum has accumulated 9,460 posts in 1,224 threads and 336 members. To start, those are some pretty good statistics. You should be pretty proud; surprisingly, very few forums make it as far as your forum has made it. Your forum is nearing 10,000 posts, which is a pretty big deal. Comparing your posts and topics, each topic averages out to have about nine posts on them. That is pretty good. Comparing your members and posts, each member averages to have about three posts. That isn't that great. You seem to be having a lot of members who are inactive. How do you get them to become active once more? There's no full-proof way, but I suggest sending out email reminders, etc. Also, your forum seems to offer custom MyBB themes, domains, and forum conversions. I feel you should really make sure that people know that. There must be people who don't know that, as I don't know about you, but offering such things like that are usually major attractions to webmasters. Anyways, your statistics are very nice. Your current activity could be better though, considering there are boards that haven't had any posts in two weeks. That's crazy. You shouldn't allow any of your forum's boards to be inactive for that long. A few days is the longest a board should be active, truthfully. Overall, good job on the statistics, but work on improving the activity, and not only that, work on keeping posts spread out across the forum, not just in particular boards. I wish you the best of luck.
(Scored 17/20)
Staff Moderation
Your forum's staff team seems to be moderating effectively, and not only that, but in a timely fashion as well. According to your forum's "Forum Team" page, your forum has a total of five staff members, if I am not mistaken. Two staff members are administrators, two staff members are super moderators, and one staff member is a designer. Don't you think five staff members may be a little too much? I wouldn't expect too much moderating going on, so I don't think you need four people who moderate the forum. Also, a couple of the staff members I know are designers, so I question if the designer position is really needed or not. I think three staff members would be a better amount considering your forum's current status. I think three people should be able to moderate, design, etc effectively. Overall, staff moderation is going well, but I feel you have somewhat overstaffed your forum. You should work on that.
(Scored 16/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism
All five staff members seem to be posting around professionally for the most part. This professional posting could be improved, but for the most part, it's benefiting your forum. It makes your forum look like a high-quality professional forum, which is one thing I know people look for when it comes to forums involving scripts, etc. You can tell that this professional has also been brought upon the regular members of the forum. They have been taught to take their time with their posts, contribute to topics, and use good spelling and grammar. Your forum has pretty good spelling and grammar in the board descriptions as well, but there are a couple mistakes. I'll point them out. First off, in the "Blog" board description, "and other" needs to be added before "related" and "goes" needs to be "go." Next, in the "Script Tutorials" board description, "Tutorials" doesn't need a capital letter and I think you could explain the board with a bit more depth. Thirdly, in the "Website Coding" board description, "an" needs to be "and." Fourthly, in the "Marketplace" board description, "there" needs to be "their." Lastly, in the "Themes & Templates" board description, "Script Install" needs to be "Script Installs" I believe. Overall, you have done a decent job with spelling, grammar, and professionalism.
(Scored 17/20)
Total Score - 83/100
Final Remarks
Strong Points
Your forum's custom theme, graphics, and statistics.
Things to Improve
Your forum's staff team, layout, and rules topic.
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