What do you guys think of my new forums, Top Web Professionals. What do you think I need to do to make it better? I don't want to fill it up with tons of ads, I just want it to be clean and fun, without all that mess.
It's nice! I like the red and blue together, i would suggest maybe a small logo or something to the right of the banner at the top as it just looks a bit bare at the moment, other than that is looking good so far.
I've always been told to stick to colours everyone likes and avoid stronger ones like red. especially if you're going to use a lot of it. Nature colours are always good to work with : browns, blues, light tones of green, greys...there's loads you can get from there (from lighter to darker tones of each colour). Then, add some stronger tones. Like red.
simple and clean but I stress to lots of people to limit the # of forums when you are starting out. Make the overwhelming amount of posts in a small amount of broad-range forums force you to expand.. dont want to scare off users with inactive topics that get little attention due to an expansive array of forums.. good luck