SWC Full Review
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Bluezone777
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Full Review of «Sports World Community»
«Sports World Community»
by «Bluezone777»
«Sports World Community»
by «Bluezone777»
When I go to your forum, I am greeted with a fairly nice banner, decent well made forum theme that's easy on the eyes and a small rather straightforward layout that's easy to navigate and all forums have plenty of topics to reply to so no issues there.
Average
I noticed you have more then one theme in the selector so I decided to go through the selector and comment on the other themes. Zeta Original in my opinion is a fairly awful theme that I know is preloaded into your forum when you registered but I personally never cared for it though I could see why you left it in since you didn't put it in the first place and figured why not leave it in. The other theme you have besides the default is called Cold Zenith or gray theme according to the selector.
I noticed you didn't set a banner for this theme as you left the banner that the theme creator made for the theme to display it in the theme gallery on ZNRS. I strongly suggest you get yourself a banner made for each theme if you wish to have more than one theme as it looks awful to not do so. I also suggest making sure all forum graphics are made for each theme and that no defaults are left behind. I noticed the gray theme has all the defaults from the base theme which was Zeta Original. I also noticed a few defaults in your default theme as well called Twist that should be taken cared of.
I noticed that it says "Welcome to swctherebirth" in your guest welcome box and I think this should be changed so it reads "Welcome to SWC".
Poor
One thing I noticed was the unnecessary capitalization of words in forum descriptions. The only words that need capitalization are the first word in each sentence and proper nouns and acronyms such as SWC or NBA. Any other word capitalized in your forum descriptions shouldn't be and should instead be in all lower case.
Another thing I noticed was the odd placement of Feed back in the middle of the General category as I believe that should be at the top instead of the middle so new members can easily find it to provide feedback for your forum without having to search for it.
I also find it rather odd that you have an Entertainment forum in the general category while the other category reads "Sports and Entertainment". That category is rather short so I feel the Entertainment forum should go into the other category as it makes more sense and looks better to do that. I also noticed that there was no announcement forum so not sure how you go about informing your members of any new changes to the forum as I see no place to go for it which I think should be added to make it easier to know what's happening on your forum in regards to any new changes made by you.
Average
I honestly can't say much here as I don't really see anything that makes this forum stand out from others that share the same genre. It really just feels like just another forum and with it doesn't do anything to draw anyone in who might be interested in a general forum that has a bit of a sports theme to it. Originality is a fairly difficult thing to do especially with general forums as they have been done countless times so it doesn't really leave much room for innovation here which have something to do with the low activity and member count your board has.
Poor
Your forum has been open a month though it doesn't seem to have built much of a community on it as I find it strange as I do recall your Proboards version of this board being far more active though you aren't doing too bad for your first month. I understand that many might have lost contact with you after your Proboards SWC was suddenly shutdown by Proboards so this might have something to do with it. There doesn't seem to be too many who regularly post there as it seems the board is being held up by about 7 people including yourself. I hope as the months pass on that you build your community's memberbase through advertising the board where you can and implementing some of the changes I addressed might help make your board more attractive to guests so they will join.
Average
The thing I liked the best: The twist theme was the best thing about your board as it was a good theme choice for your board if those few issues I addressed about it were fixed.
The thing I liked the least: The other themes and the lack of activity on the board.
Overall Mark:
All in all, You are off to an okay start for your first month and even though I seen plenty of room for improvement. You aren't doing that bad of a job and I hope to see your forum prosper and continue to grow as the months pass.
All in all, You are off to an okay start for your first month and even though I seen plenty of room for improvement. You aren't doing that bad of a job and I hope to see your forum prosper and continue to grow as the months pass.
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