Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
I am usually not a huge vBulletin fan. However, your skin is really clean and professional looking. It just "fits" on a webmaster forum, the look is just right. The color scheme is really nice, the blue and orange go together very well. Your skin is sort of glossy, especially on the icons. Glossy is always a nice look, and the custom buttons look good. Your logo also fits the nice professional look and is simple, but useful. I also like how your skin isn't boxy, it has curves which always looks nice on a forum, boxy forum are really old fashioned. Really, pretty much everything about your skin is great. There's not much, or anything at all, I can suggest. So, great job! Keep it up! Definitely keep the skin you have now.
(Scored 20/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
Let me start out with pointing out two good things about your layout. First off, unlike a bunch of forum's I've seen, your forum doesn't have too many off-topic boards. I cannot tell you how many forums I've seen that have a ton of general discussion boards that don't have anything to do with the forum's purpose at all. Another good layout decision was that all of your forums fit into their respective categories and all the categories made sense. However, there were a few things I wasn't a huge fan of on your layouts. One was that you have WAWY too many boards for a new forum. Like, seriously, your forum has some of the most boards I've ever seen on a single forum. Your index just seems to go on and on, and it gets to the point where it's intimidating just trying to figure out where to find something. Plus many of your forums don't have any posts, which isn't good for a new forum. I would eliminate/merge some forums to make the index more usable. For example, you could merge "Copyright It!" with, "Is It Legal?"Copyrights are legal issues, so it would work. Another problem I had with the layout is that I don't like the user info on posts being on top of the post rather than the standard left. It sometimes makes the actual info bar bigger than the post, which results in quite a bit of wasted space. The other layout elements were fine.
(Scored 15/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
Over 1,000 posts for a forum a few days old is great. Same with 56 members, that takes some forums quite a while to reach. However, you have 662 of the posts, KMRock, which is almost half the posts on the forum. I'm glad you're devoted to your forum, but that can intimidate to newcomers seeing one person have most of the posts, and then just some other peoples' posts just spread out. I would be careful of that. Perhaps you should do more post exchanges to something to get that issue taken care of. That will boost your posts while gaining new members. Even so, you're doing great right now. Just keep in mind what I said.
(Scored 17/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
OK for a new forum, you are overstaffed. I cannot imagine why for a forum that's like a week old, you need 2 admins and 3 global mods. You could honestly do fine without any mods at all, and just the 2 admins. One of your mods hasn't even been on since the day the forum opened. I know that was only like 2 days ago, but still. Shouldn't a mod at least be on during the opening days? Thankfully most of your mods and admins all are otherwise active and post. They act professional which is good. If I could give you one suggestion in this are, I would definitely suggest you stop hiring staff. You don't want to be overstaffed, it just doesn't look good and it's a bad thing to do.
(Scored 16/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
Your spelling and grammar was generally excellent. However, I did notice a few errors.
"This is for serious discussions only. We go over beliefs, religeons, world issues, laws, problems, personal trouble and much more. Nothing stupid!" should be,
"This is for serious discussions only. We go over beliefs, religions, world issues, laws, problems, personal trouble, and much more. Nothing stupid!"
"Nothing beat good old forum games." should be, "Nothing beats good old forum games."
"Come in an enjoy yourself. Chat about sports, media, music, tv, radio, games, consoles, life, teens, politics, technology, news and more." should be, "Come in an enjoy yourself. Chat about sports, media, music, tv, radio, games, consoles, life, teens, politics, technology, news and more." should be, "Come in and enjoy yourself. Chat about sports, media, music, TV, radio, games, consoles, life, teens, politics, technology, news, and more."
I'm not going to go through every little forum, but those should give you a general idea of what you need to adjust. Most of these were minor errors. For professionalism, I would stop hiring staff and fix up the spelling and you'll be fine.
(Scored 17/20)
Total Score - 85 (Out of 100)
Final Remarks: Your forum is off to a great start.
What was most liked about the website/forums: The skin, the statistics.
What was disliked most about the website/forums: Spelling, staff.
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to join my website? I don't join many forums, but nothing really would stop me from joining.
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