Webmastertalk.co.uk - relaunch

I recently took over Webmastertalk.co.uk (http://www.webmastertalk.co.uk) and we have given it a new logo and style

Any feedback would be appreciated

 

The layout and design is not bad but there is too much negative space
between the logo and the rest of the contents on the page, I think the
site would look better if you removed some of that space.

 

You mean the whitespace at the top?

That will be used for banners etc., but I didn't want to put them on there immediately

 

Yes there is a lot of dead space between the banner and the notices, also instead of having a subforum per line try to have them on the same line so its a bit more condensed. The latest posts feature at the bottom is pretty good, Maybe add a whos online now box like dp?

 

That's probably not too hard with some CSS .. I'll have to go poke around the templates a bit

If you're logged in you can see who is online - it's intentionally not available to guest viewers

 

Ohh Ok good stuff
I will be using your forum in the future and hopefully it will be big one day
I also noticed that your not getting an awaful amount of posts so try and entice users into posting! Maybe offer a prize for the most amount of posts or something?

 

The more the merrier

The site had been unattended for quite some time, so it had become a spamfest. I only took over a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.mneylon.com/blog/archives/2008/09/10/rebuilding-a-damaged-community-progress-report/

 

Ok Well Have you thought about paid forum posting? I know its very expensive but if you can afford to pay 20 people per day then hopefully people visiting might stick around and register

 

I've looked into it and even used it once. It wasn't very good
Most of the posts were rubbish