I've lauched car forum for general discussion, talks about car models, car news, car tuning. It's based on simplemachines forum with theme orange-lt06. From developer's side, I think, it will be easy to tune forum engine, to add new features to the blog. I think, SM forum is popular, but it don't use modern development onception - only plain procedure programming. No OOP, no MVC, no templates. Anyway, I think, it's better then PhpBB and YaBB, and it's free. URL of the forum is: http://www.automedius.com/forum/ Please, leave any suggestions, opinions, topics titles for discussion. If you are car lover, I invite you to the forum. Regards, Alex
I like your forum design ~ very simple but nice especially the color scheme. Congrats! Additional: 1) Create & put your USP on the header - it'll be nicer & looks more pro. 2) Choose a better image for the header to show what the forum is about.
I really like the header (especially the paper overlapping the tires, neat effect!) - My suggestion would to change your orange links to dark-ish green (not too dark). I think it'll suit your color scheme better
Your header is good, but you need to introduce more colors to rest of the pages of whole site. Try changing colors of your topic headers. So much of free space on the right column doesnt looks nice(of home page)
i dont like header part of your forum. you can add better image.but orange colour doesnt look good with yellow. its not looking bad but ok.but you can try more color instead of yellow like blue.
header is done by my designer - he is working on designing such type of graphic - creativity, based on several connected elements, which is done professionaly. basic theme is not my - I've found it on SMF web-site, but hope, to modify it on my wish, because I'm planning to add more features. What can you give as advice about promotion?
Based on first impressions, I don't like the design at all. The template design just feels too simple and lacks any real identity. I think alot of potential members will turn away simply because of this.
Yes, I was looking first for simple design. The main I think, is forum content, and functionality. I like SMF functionality at all. Anyway, explain please "lacks any real identity" ? Thank you