Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
I know you said you like using the default banner, but personally I think that is an excuse you have so you don't have to make one. It makes your site look very amateur and unprofessional. If you want your board to look better I highly recommend that you change the banner. I know you like it, but really... It makes your forum look very very new.
You have ads inside the message that is displayed to guests and users who are not logged in. I recommend that you put the ads above the welcome message or below it. It looks very unorganized and pushes your content down the page a lot.
I must say that I am not impressed with your forum (look below).
(Scored 15/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
Your site layout is a mess. In your first category you have a lot of forums that are all very different.
(Announcements & News, Off-topic, Suggestions, Admin Discussions, and Introductions).
First. Your first category should only have Announcements, Suggestions, and Introductions. Admin Discussions and Off-topic do not belong in your first category at all.
Put Admin Discussion and Off-topic in your Services section. However, change the services section name to 'Other'.
In your announcements and news I would recommend that you make the description a little longer. You should hint that users must or should read the forum whenever there is a new thread.
International RP areas. You capitalize war way to much and you have a lot of exclamation points. There is no need for this. You do not need three exclamation points to get your point across. In fact, I find it very annoying and amateur. Exclamation points should really be left for individual posts, not the forum's name. Also, I am assuming that it is a role playing section. You should write some descriptions for each forum so people know what the forum is about. By looking at your forum I have no idea what to expect when going into any of those forums.
Services. Alright, I understand that you are a role playing and promotion board. However, you should really just pick one of those. It is very unprofessional to try and have two different ideas in one forum. It confuses users. You will also find out that half your members will be promoting and half of them will be role playing. It will be hard for both sides to get to know each other and interact when each side of your board has different agendas. I recommend that you just make it strictly role playing. Why? Because there are so many promotion boards out and there is way too much competition for it to become successful (and yes, I tried it. It failed horribly).
Also, in your services board you have a graphics forum. There is no need for a graphics forum. Why? Because now your staff has to handle a graphics area, a promotion area, AND a role playing area. Pick one topic and stick to it.
You also have a chat redirect. You should make this "Chat room" and add a description saying something like "This will redirect you to our forum's chat room".
Admin shops? If you are going to keep this just put it in your services area.
I have already said it, but I will say it again because it is very important. Stick to one theme/idea/topic and make your forum about it!
(Scored 11/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
Total Forum Posts: 2,046
Total Members: 38
That is a lot of posts for each user. That is good. However, you don't have a lot of topics in your admin shops, or graphics section. You need to go posting a lot of topics everywhere so people can have more to discuss!
(Scored 18/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
Four admins and one forum moderator. You do NOT need four admins. For a board your size you can easily survive with one or two. Three is pushing it even. Just keep two admins and make the rest forum moderators. Until your board is racking in hundreds of posts a day, you will do fine. However, seeing that you have been open since March and don't even have 3,000 posts that is not the case.
However, I see nothing wildly inappropriate so they must be doing a good job!
(Scored 17/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
Negociations should be: Negotiations
Subforums: Referals
Referals should be: Referrals
(Scored 18/20)
Total Score - 79 (Out of 100)
Final Remarks:
Very unorganized. It looked very unprofessional. Your forum needs a lot of work.
What was most liked about the website/forums:
The thing I liked the best was your forum's style.
What was disliked most about the website/forums:
I dislike that you have two different forums running on the same forum. You need to pick one. It is very unprofessional and looks kind of sloppy. The forums and their descriptions were very unprofessional as well.
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to join my website?
Make a lot of changes. However, I am not joining anymore sites.
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