I want your opinion on http://www.rideville.com - car enthusiasts forum. Any suggestions or comments are appreciated.
the logo caption is kinda unclear. the header on a whole doesn't look that great aswell (add some car related stuff) the colors are OK but you need to change the forum icons
I absolutely love your change-colors function Very well working and extremely user-friendly. Also good to make many members happy. I'ld put a small introduction text to the forum just below this text: "Welcome, Guest. Please login or register. ". An introduction text is a good marketing tool => more members About the logo: I love the font (it does suits your theme), and the globe makes it look professional ánd international. Nice done! Your SEO seems quite good too, because your adsense ads are quite targetted. It was also a good thing to add AuctionAds at the bottom! The only thing I'ld change, is a bit other search icon It really looks like a windows 95-search icon; there are loads of other better search icons; so maybe change that? Your site is currently still missing activity. What you could do, is some contests. Those contests could maybe be for some kind of ebooks explaining this or other tweak to cars. I think, it might also be beneficial for you to add a gallery integrating with SMF; so that people can upload, rate and discuss car pictures. Maybe you already have an attachment system? (I'm unsure if its default with SMF) That could work too. Let's finish with your domain name: its a very good one, and easy to remind! Hope this helps a bit. Keep it up!
I would imagine a red/black colorscheme would work better for your topic For the logo.. it would be best to get a nicer customized logo!
I think the header needs work. You can't tell up front this is a car forum out right. The color change function is nice... but I'd be more interested in using that as a user. You've got to convince me to join first. I would also make the forum category (the table below) thinner... less padding/margin around them.