Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
My first impression to your site is a good one, I do like the theme your using for your forum, it's very colourful around the edges, darker near the top but it really does make the forum look nice. The design does let itself down though in the middle with the blue forum rows, more colour needs to be added there, make it more fancy as the top part of the forum and the edge is really ncie but gets let down when you see the list of forums. Also the log, I don't think it suits the forum to well. The red and black dulls the forum down a bit to much for me personally, the logo is rather dull and honestly quite boring considering the forums border is light and colourful and all. I think a fancier logo with bigger outstanding text would really make it better. Generally I think you need to work on getting the forum interior more colourful like the rest of it.
(Scored 17/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
The site layout is nice and easy to navigate, I can scroll from top to bottom in two scrolls and you have a nice range of forums to choose from, they're presented nicely and I think this is a strong point, however I know this is being picky, but personally I think the Introductions forum could do with being moved elsewhere, either just below the Chit Chat forum or below the Problems & Feedback forum. For me the feedback forum you have is quite an important forum whereas the Introduction forum wont be used as much as others. Also something I didn't want to mention above in the appearance, I felt it better suited the layout was the interesting location of the site logo, now usually I wouldn't like it how it is, but I think like I said above changing it to be more appealing do think it would look great there. That's pretty much it, very nice layout.
(Scored 18/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
Your forums stats and activity aren't to bad really, the posts to member ratio is good, however after looking at the member list and seeing how many posts people have and how spread out they are, it seems that one user has over 800 posts on the forum with only three others that have over 100 whereas the rest of the forums users have lower than 50. The stats on the index look quite good but when doing the research it does show that your forum lacks activity. I think the thing you need to focus on here when promoting is to get exsisting members posting and making their post count higher, and don't worry about getting more members. Also from looking at the box showing recent activity it clearly shows that very minimal posts/topics are being made each day. You need to stop up the activity a noch with your exsisting members to improve on this section.
(Scored 12/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
Your staff and the forums moderation is not bad, but can be improved I think. First of all you only have yourself, and two moderators on the forum with a user base on nearly 70 members. One of the staff members has been online for five days so I can imagine that just having one moderator with the current size of your forum isn't very good and will take it's toll. Although the staff members do have a fair amount of posts by them, you and them and one other regular member has the most posts by far which goes back to what I said about the inactivity, in all fairness though the staff are active but you do need staff that are online at least once every two or tree days so you need more moderators, well one more moderator would be fine, providing that all staff are online regularly, so you can keep the forum in shape, they do seem to be doing they're job right though, which is good.
(Scored 15/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
The overall professionalism, spelling and the grammar of the forum is very good as the forum descriptions are nice and clear and easy to read, but one thing that let them down and the whole forum is that all but two, (Introductions and Problems & Feedback Forum) don't have any full stops at the end. That is picky, I know but it doesn't look as good and doesn't make your forum look as professional without the full stops, adding them in would make it look more professional as at the moment it seems as if they were quickly typed and submitted, fix them and this would be your strong point, good work nonetheless.
(Scored 18/20)
Total Score - 80 (Out of 100)
Final Remarks:
Your forum is really nice, there is only a few things in the design that let it down and the acitivity could be a lot better really, but I think the forum has good potenial.
What was most liked about the website/forums:
The design in general I thought was the best part, looks very nice and the way it's laid out, it looks very unique, nice work.
What was disliked most about the website/forums:
Unfautunately the thing that let your site down the most was the amount of staff and their activity, not to mention the acitivity in general anyway, let the site down.
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to join my website?
Things that I've mentioned need changing and with acitivity levels improving I wouldn't visiting your site regularly as it's a pretty good one.
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