Looks good to me. I was actually looking at that template. Its very easy on the eyes. Good Luck. Its not easy getting a forum started.
The theme looks simple but it is attractive and it was fast in loading.Need more contents to impress visitors and to promote the forum..
It is very simple, easy to understand, just what forums need. You probably need to get some traffic though.
I think it needs more graphics, it looks really boring right now. A better logo and more content is necessary. Meta informations are missing (description and keywords). You need to install user-friendly-links mod. Good luck.
Thanks and yeah, I'm kind of starting to see that now. The users and posts is my biggest problem right now, I really need to somehow kickstart this forum. Thanks. Yeah, that was my main point when I was starting the forum - cleanliness. I like everything nice, simply and clean. But yeah, the users and content is a big turn off. Thanks Thanks, I'm working on the traffic. I'm going to try to do a whole forum redesign soon as I feel the same was as you. It looks nice, but too simple. Thanks
As being experienced with web forums, I can see some fatal flaws that will most likely see you lose this project. My advice to you, is: - Less Forums. You have way to many, anything over 10 is way too many, even 10 is quite tough. Why? Because when starting off, you'll have scattered posts here and there, and the forum will look empty. Less forums = more posts in a single forum, and will help the forum a 100 times. The design and site (url etc) are very good.
I think you have far too many categories and forums for a new community, you need to severely condense them down. Your forums are virtually dead/new atm, so to have so many is un-necessary and gives the impression of an empty forum. A new logo is needed to just give your site some recognition and rememberability. It's good starting off with a pre-made forum design to start off with however if you're looking to build your forum up and if it gets more popular I'd suggest you invest in getting your forums redesigned with something more original.
ya not bad needs more members and post i found out people wont join unless they see it active. post on other blogs and forums related to yours do follow get a good backlink that way and nice traffic. I worked on that first now i'm doing backlinks to be ranked in serps higher. sorry been putting in some long days lately hope i made sense lol Not bad though i would say 6 out of 10
Thanks, I changed the logo for now, I'm going to work on a brand new template. About the forums, that's the basic point of the forums - Discussion. It's kind of necessary for all those forums.
Yes I'm aware of the point of forums - discussion. However a new board doesn't need that many, it puts new potential members off seeing 0 0 0 0 on every forum. Condense them and be less specific with your forums. Then when you start to attract members increate and diversify your forums.
Oh, I see what you mean. I cleared up the forums a bit and added some forums as sub forums instead of having their own forums. Thanks. Thanks for the review