Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
The first thing I notice when I load your site is your wonderful banner! Your buttons under the banner are also quite appealing. The only thing I dislike about your header is that it is too big. The banner, the ad, and the message at the top make for a pretty long scroll to get to the content. If possible, I would recommend making your banner a little bit smaller. Scrolling down, the rest of your theme is simply amazing; not only does it have a lot of eye appeal, but it also suits the theme of your site perfectly! Scrolling all the way to the bottom, I notice you have an empty forum! I would recommend posting at least an announcement in that forum; empty forums of any kind can be off-putting to prospective members. Your stats are fairly impressive at a glance, though. All in all, my first impression of your site was positive.
(Scored 17/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
Your index is very, very long! Having an extremely long index can be annoying to some users; it creates a lot of unnecessary scrolling, and it makes your forums harder to navigate. Despite being long, though, your index is quite organized. Starting from the top, the first suggestion I can make to condense your index is to merge the "Suggestions" forum with the "Feedback" forum. Feedback includes suggestions, so it seems rather redundant to have these two forums separated. Secondly, I would recommend deleting the "Affiliates" forum and simply having a topic for affiliations in a different forum; the forum doesn't appear to be used that often anyway. After that, I would recommend moving "Graveyard" to the "Forum Rules/News" category and moving "Advertising" to the "Off-Topic" category. That eliminates an entire category. Furthermore, I would recommend merging the "SWL Support" forum with your "Feedback" forum and changing the name of the new forum to something along the lines of "SWL Feedback and Support." I would recommend making the "Testing" forum a sub-forum under "Spam Area." Test posts can technically be counted as spam.
😉 Lastly, I would recommend making "The Great Sith War" a sub-forum under your RP archive. This way, users can still see the posts from the event, but it won't be taking up space on your index. I still think that you could probably make a few modifications, but since I don't know too terribly much about Star Wars, I'm going to leave the rest up to you. Decide what is vital to have as a forum and what can be merged. Although your index is organized, it needs to be condensed to make navigating your site an even easier task.
(Scored 12/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
One very positive thing about your site is that your post to member ratio is huge! You currently have over
one hundred posts to each member! However, your forum is only receiving an average of about twenty-five posts per day. Your forum isn't dead, but there is a lot of room for improvement. Your forum has been running for nearly two years (congratulations, by the way), so post exchanges probably would not help your forum a great deal. Since you have a large amount of members, I would recommend sending a mass e-mail to tell your members that you are still alive. It's possible that some members forgot about the site in two years. I see that you are also doing some contests to keep members interested in the forum. That's a good step to increasing activity. You may find it helpful to join some other Star Wars forums (or even movie forums) and post around a bit wearing your site's signature banner. Some members may notice your banner and visit your forum. Just be careful not to spam the other sites.
😉 Other than that, though, I can only suggest advertising using services on Forum Promotion and abroad such as banner ads and text ads.
(Scored 7.5/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
You appear to have a good amount of staff members. Your staff members also appear to be quite active. One staff member has less than one post per day, but it appears that he's been more active lately. Just looking at a few threads, your staff members also appear to be friendly and professional on the forum. Overall, I don't think that your forum has any staffing issues.
(Scored 19/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
Looking over your descriptions, I only see a few grammatical errors. A little proofread would probably take care of those. Also, if you follow the advice in this review, a lot of your forums will be merged. If you request a follow-up review, I may have more to say about grammar.
One thing I like about your forum is that you have some nice forum descriptions. They aren't the most outrageous or humorous, but they give a personal touch to your forum and make it seem friendly. For some forums, you have robotic descriptions, but most of them have great descriptions.
(Scored 16/20)
Score - 71.5 (Out of 100)
Closing remarks: Despite lacking a bit in activity, your forum seems like a great Star Wars community.
Forum's strong points: Your forum has a great theme and staff.
Improvements to make: You need to improve your activity.
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