Zombie Survival Forum
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SheepishWolf
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Before the forum even loads, I notice that your forum does not have a favicon. I would recommend that you get one soon, and make it priority. When a user bookmarks your site if you have a nice little image next to the text, it'll make your bookmark stand out more.
I really, really like your dark theme. I'm usually not a fan of themes with such amounts of dark colors, but yours looks great. The banner looks nice with the forum, and compliments it. I like how you used the color red in the forum. I see that sometimes red in forum themes can come out looking over done, but yours looks nice. I'm not sure if this was intended or not, but the forum icons remind me of bullets from the guns in the banner. (Pardon if they're not guns - I have no experience with that kind of thing.)
Something that I think you should change is the little icon next to the "Board Index" link in the footer. I can't find any other purple in the theme, so it stands out a bit. I believe that you should have a certain amount of consistency in regards to the colors of the theme, and the little icon breaks that. I think that the color of the text in your banner would make a nice color replacement for it.
Your forum width is off for me - I have to scroll a little sideways to see just a little strip of gray that is there. I’m not sure if the reason that the forum width is stretched is because of that little gray strip that is there or if it’s just a fixed width and my computer is too small for the fixed width -- but either way I would recommend that you do something to change it.
Why do the first eleven tips in the "Zombie Survival Tips" page have no pictures, and the rest do? I think that you should get those eleven some pictures so that the page has a consistency with the images.
At random times, after I refresh the page it’ll come up with no images, no screen and the URL as the title, or just not appear. This happened on the survival tips page, the blog, and the board index. am not sure why, and I’m 99% sure it’s not my computer because it’s only your forum that is doing it for me.
I like how the blog has a similar theme (same colors, same banner) and looks nice in general. However, it too needs a favicon. Also, I think it would look better if you had the “Meta”, “tags”, and “recent posts” in the side widget bar with the others, instead of them being at the bottom of the forum. They would be more noticed there, and for new readers to your blog, that would be helpful.
(Score: 15/20)
I find the way that you have the bottom of the page set up very interesting. The latest topics, latest users, and top active users are there. I think it’s interesting how you have them all there in general, because it’s, well, out of the ordinary. I’ve noticed, your forum is very different from many others. In a good way. You’ve done some small things to your forum, just little things, and together they make a world of difference to your forum as a whole. But back to the latest topics, latest users, and top active users; I especially like that you have the “latest topics” down there. I can see how it would and most likely is helpful to active users who like to reply to most topics, and to new users who are quickly looking through topics that spark their interest (without looking through every forum).
In the latest titles in the bottom of the forum, I believe you should remove this part of the titles -
“In Strieson's plan. by: Strieson Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:26 pm”
“In Most forgotten item by: Strieson Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:25 pm”
“In Freeway traffic jam. Infected are all over. No Guns. by: Strieson Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:21 pm”
“In Which Zombie situation would you prefer to be in? by: Strieson Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:16 pm”
“In I remember that by: Strieson Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:10 pm”
I just don’t see any reason to have Friday in there. By looking at the date it was posted people should be able to figure out what day of the week it was posted. But either way, it honestly doesn’t matter what day of the week it was posted since you have the day of the month, the month, the time, and the year next to it.
I really like how you have ordered the categories. Having the main content first, the off topic second, and then having things in relation to the site itself last. It seems to go in the order of which categories would be of most interest to the users, and in the order of importance (although whether the off topic/introductions and the site feedback and announcements is more important or of most interest is debatable).
(Scored 16/20)
As I view this there are twenty-four users online and over one-hundred guests.There's over 370 users and over 35,000 posts. Your forum looks very active at a glance, in short. Looking deeper into it just confirms that more. The average amount of posts per user (Posts/Users=Average amount of posts per user) is 95. That's really, really great. It shows that your users have a real interest in your community, and even if you have some postless accounts or inactive users, you have enough active users so that they even them out (statistic-wise). The post activity on the forum doesn't seem to all be in one forum and seems relatively even. Although I would recommend that you try to get some more topics in the "Bump in the night". Putting aside the forums in the category that is focused on feedback and announcements for the site, it seems to have the least amount of posts compared to the other.
Your forum activity is good, that's obvious. You should be happy (especially considering how young the forum still is) but not satisfied. I've seen many forums die because the owner gets lazy once they get a decent amount of activity. So I would advise you to continue doing what ever advertising method you used to get your current activity -- because it certainly worked well.
(Scored 18/20)
In regards to this thread - http://zombie-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=230-
I believe that you have a great form for moderator applications. I think it’s great that you added the “Please do not be discouraged if you do not have experience moderating forums. Everyone has to start somewhere and myself, and the rest of the staff will be there to help you along the way. Also, do not be discouraged if you do not get picked as a moderator right away.”. It honestly would make me want to apply more. It would let me know right away that you are a fair, relate-able, and probably a decent person and administrator to work under. Also, because of some of the text below and above it I would know that I would have help settling into the job. Great job with that (And I hope you choose a good person to fill that position.)
I also like how in the “who was here” at the bottom of the forum, you don’t have staff names colored or bolded. I believe I’ve only seen that on one or two other forums. It gives me the impression that you don’t put yourself above the members, and you’re a normal part of the community. Not imposing or flaunting your power over the users. However, I see that it could create a problem. New users could need help and wouldn’t know who the staff is because there’s so difference in the usernames. I also don’t see any rank or any real way to tell yourself apart from the regular members, and that could be very confusing to some users (especially new ones). But regardless of that, I like how you have the “who was here”.
From what I can see, you're the only staff member. I see you're looking for a moderator(s), so I won't comment on that. But from what I can see you make good quality posts and add meaningful content to the forum. You're an active member of the community, and from some of your posts I can see that you're helpful and nice to members. What more could you ask for in a staff member?
(Scored 18/20)
I can’t seem to find any spelling or grammar issues in the forum descriptions, in the forum announcements, and even in most normal threads by regular users the spelling and grammar is very decent. I think I noticed one run-on sentence in the blog, but that isn’t huge, noticeable, or important (since as far as I can find, it’s the one or one of the only times you’ve done it). Keep up the great work with this, having a virtually spelling and grammar error free forum makes your forum look more professional and serious.
I find that all of the forums blog posts are of good quality, highly interesting, and some even have a neat picture. As I said, they are of good quality, which reflects well upon the site and blog, making it look professional.
(Scored 20/20)
Total Score - 87/100
Final Remarks
The theme, the good quality of the content.
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