Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
Very catchy banner which looks awesome, pleases the eye and immediately attracts the attention. Makes you want to look for more. Also the style looks awesome; it's a good style and not being used often so that's an absolute good thing. It also took me quite some time to add it (I'm a Style Tech from FreeForums.org - po$eydoNNN*) so I'm glad people are using it!
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It's also nice that you have a Portal in place; a front page almost always does a forum good. However, I feel like you're not using it really. You've just stuffed all kind of blocks in without really thinking about it. The calendar block is in the upper left corner, which usually is one of the more important boxes and commonly used as a navigation or information block. I think moving the positions of the blocks around a bit will do the portal good. Aswell as removing some boxes, as currently the portal is quite stretched-out and not "in-balance" as the left side is way longer.
Once I continued to the Board Index, all looked amazing again. Everything just looks right and nothing sticks out as if it's in the wrong place. Just a tip I would like to give to you is edit the "Welcomes Box" on the Board Index, just as you did on the Portal. Currently it's the standard welcomes messages, try changing this to something unique and something that matches your board. The index is quite long, but that's mostly because of the amount of boxes at the bottom which is Style based.
(Scored 16/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
Well, as I already described the Portal is a good idea but currently not being used in a way that's very useful. If you organize it better, users should be able to navigate easier through the portal and thus through the board.
When on the Board Index, things look good once again. However even though Introductions are important to make sure new-comers feel in place, I feel that the "Announcements" forum is more important and should be moved above the "Entrances" forum.
You also have quite a few forum names starting with "ZGA", even though both your Board and Categories are already using it. I feel that this is overdoing it. Try removing those and make up a different forum name, you could explain the description that it's specifically for the ZGA.
(Scored 16/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
You've been open for little less than a month and already over the 100 members and 3500 posts. That's an awesome achieved, as I know there are quite a few other forums that cover the same 'subject', so you've done well thus far. The art now is to continue this activity!
I do have to note that you've almost made a third of the post yourself, which quite a lot is seeing you've got over 100 members. It's good that you're active, don't get me wrong but it shows that not all members are just as active as you.
There are also a few forums that contain none or close to none posts, which is not very attractive to post in. A forum such as "Power Rankings" seems like a very cool and unique feature to your forum, but is not being used at all. Starting to use it will boost your members activity. Also the "The Muse" in the Chill Zone is not listed on the Board Index as Subforum and contains no posts. It's either none of your members are interested in that specific subject, or they're scared to be the first one to post. Try getting activity up in there or otherwise remove the forum as you've got enough other forums they can post in.
Topics per day: 15
Posts per day: 141
Posts per user: 23
Users per day: 6
(Scored 17/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
You've got 3 Administrators and 2 Global Moderators. The amount of moderators seems to be fine, they together with you should be able to cover all the posts per day. However, 3 admins is too much for such a young and still
small forum. Unless they've some additional administration skills you do not have, I think it's simply too much.
Most users ever online was 53 and 20 users were active over the past 24 hours. These statistics are good for a starting forum!
(Scored 16/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
Most of your Forum Names and Forum Descriptions look good and are spelling correctly. Giving good Forum Descriptions is important, as otherwise users will not know what they should post in that specific forum. You've done this in most cases, but not all. They can have some more length and some more information, for example the "Arena" forum.
Also a few Forum Descriptions do not start with a capital and end with a punctation, try to sort these out aswell to make it look more proffessional. Also watch the single quotes
( ' ) in words such as don't. You often seem to forget them (ie Forum Rules).
I would like to point out a small mistake in the Welcomes Message on the Portal. It's a good block and helped me to understand what your forum is about, but in the second sentence it says
& instead of an actuall &. That block doesn't accept HTML and will not replace it automatically, you just have to do it yourself.
(Scored 18/20)
Total Score - 82 (Out of 100)
Final Remarks: It's a good forum that can easily manage to succeed. Try to make everything look that extra bit better and you're set for success!
What was most liked about the website/forums: The nice lay out of your forum and the style.
What was disliked most about the website/forums: The unorganized portal.
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to join my website? I'm not into the Wrestling scene at all. So I'm afraid I will not join!
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