Your Forum Review
First Impressions - (Out of 20)
I really like the first impressions that I get from your forum. I really enjoy the style based on the apple computer Operating System. It really adds to the theme of the forum. Truthfully, I don't see many forums like that, so that is a great plus. All of the colors clash and look great together. I love the banner too, but that apple symbol could be copyright. All of the forums look great and overall, the site looks awesome! Your doing a great job and I wouldn't change a thing if you want to keep your awesome first look.
(20/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
Concering the forum order, I would change a few things. First of all, I would put the "Announcements & Rules" infront of the "Welcome" forum, just because it is pretty common to have your announcements before everything else. I see that you have a good Off-Topic section which is great and important. I would take "The Apple Forum" category and move it above the "Off-Topic" category simply because you want your Off Topic sections below your subject content, wouldn't you agree? I think thats about all that I would change in the forums. Other than that, great job!
(15/20)
Forum Statistics - (Out of 20)
First off, happy 3 month aniversary. Your forum was opened 2/5/09 and has 28 users with 1.200 posts. This is okay for a 3 month "specific discussion" forum. "Specific discussion" just means that its about one thing that is rarely discussed in forums. I would defantly work on getting more members because any more time without another member could make your forum start falling behind. So the only thing that I would do is start to advertise a little more, mabye give your members some incentive to keep posting.
(15/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
I'm going to take it you only have one staff member, yourself. I guess that because I only see you moderating the forums. Its a great choice to have only you, or even one other person moderating the forums at this level. You only have about 41 members, so this is a great precentage at the moment. If I were you, I would keep it this way until you hit 75-80 members, then I would get ONE more MODERATOR. Do not get another admin until you really feel that you can not run the forum alone. Your doing a great job!
(20/20)
Spelling and Grammar - (Out of 20)
Out of the posts that I viewed, I saw almost no speling or grammar errors. For most of the Discriptions of your forums, you use the same template, "Talk about blah blah here". It would be much more interesting if you used diffrent discriptions. Something like "Chat is hot here!" or something like that would be fine even, but the regular template "Talk about blah blah blah" is very annoying.
(14/20)
84 - (Out of 100)
Final Remarks: The forum is great and has a lot of potential! This is the first forum I have seen about apple and has sparked my intrest!
What was most liked about the website/forums: The style. That has to be the best style on a forum yet. It fits your topic and looks great!
What was disliked most about the website/forums: The repeating forum discriptions.
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to join my website? I would join if I had the time. Truthfully, I would join every forum if I had the time! ~razz~
(84/100)
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