I created www.haloarena.com a few months ago to have a community full of people that enjoy playing the halo trilogy. Let me know what you think! www.haloarena.com
The site loaded a little slow. If you want your forum to be successful you should find a host that offers fast loading times on their servers. Overall the site looks pretty good. The only piece of criticism I have to offer is to design a proper logo -- at the moment it looks a little plain. All the best, Liam
Yea I agree it loads a little slow and the logo seems a little plain, but so far it seems to be working so keep it up.
I am terrible with photoshop, so you can tell i made the banner for the speed, im using siteground.com which seems to be fast for other people i have talked to. thanks for the comments.
From a generally quick connection, I had a slow load speed as well. Echo others sentiments. Very nice start. The one suggestion from me (other than the ones you have gotten) is that the lead header(s) take up quite bit of vertical space, leaving you to have to scroll down pretty far to get basic data/info on the website.
Having many affalites listed the way you do, has given your site a PR3 Which is very good for a forum of that size. I am not positive why you have a PR3 but i think thats it, the incoming and outgoing links.
Well, i think the site is good. Its actually a forum, so i don't know what to say, but i guess the theme is great and quite professional. So i would give it a 9/10.
I just think you need to beef up the "logo"-text a bit and add an actual logo. Also, be vary of "jaggies" when graphics blend poorly with the back ground and don't "anti-alias". The "3" to the right is very jagged and it gives a poor impression. Make a new smooth one in Photoshop and save as PNG 24. Great otherwise! Keep it up!
Design is good - on par with the subject. You can work little on typography - distance between two lines.