Please review my new forum

Hi guys

I'm very new to this whole website thing, but somehow I have managed to get my forum up and running. I would like some experts to give it the once over and point out and obvious issues that may need to be sorted.


Its iRockIreland.com


Cheers

Paul

 

i just visited your site, feel like theres TOO much going on the main page. users like simple straight to the point.

 

Thanks for that, I'm still trying to get used to layouts and widgets.
Are you saying I should take the ads out or reduce the widgets?

Cheers

 

Yes right i would also say about ,users want to go straight to the point ,like this is digital point.

 

Thanks for the reply

Would love you to elaborate? I understand the comments but what would you remover?

Cheers

 

I would place the 6 sponsor images somewhere else and have some more space left over on the left and right (shrink the width of your content).

 

Ok thanks for that I may shrink the sponsors, I kinda don't want to lose them.

 

Other then what I just said, looks pretty good! Get some traffic going

 

That's a whole other thread. We are only a week old, slowly slowly catchy Forum monkeys

Thanks guys.

Any good links to create and upload new grids anyone might like to share?

 

What do you mean by "new grids"?

 

You can build the CMS layout in VBulletin using grids, there is a section to upload grids, because there is not a huge range of default ones.

CP/CMS/Download & Upload Grid

 

Roger!
I don't know of any sites that list custom grids for vbulletin but these links might be usefull:
vbulletin.com/forum/content.php?150-Getting-Started-with-CMS-Documentation-Files-28PDF-29
vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/cms_grid_manager
vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/cms_download_grids

 

I like your forum design in totality. I hope to see more members and more learnings as well. Great job and more power iRockIreland. Keep rockin'!

 

Cheers Billy, I really appreciate that.

Paul

 

Your site looks pretty good, you just started and seem like you already got a sponsors this will help you gain more traffic for sure. Because the sponsors logo link makes your forum more reliable and it doesnt look boring. Good job!. However, You could changed your sponsor logo in to something like mashable or freelancer.com make it more professional kind of way, hope you get my point.

 

Thanks Cannon

Do you mean just change the look of the one that says "become a sponsor"?

Thanks again for your comments.

 

Hire a forum poster, remove some pictures, fix the color scheme and then make a YouTube video of you being a DJ or whatever you people do in that niche.

 

well your forum looks nice but it needs more content so that it would encourage organic content

 

Ok, i will see that...!!!

 

not bad, try to fill your forum categories, still it looks little bit empty