Please review Patriotic Voices and let me know what you think. It's a brand new political debate forum, about 1.5 weeks old, and now boasts 45 active members. http://www.patrioticvoices.com
Looks like a site I might be interested in. Nice work! My suggestion would be to get a graphic designer to redo the header image. I would make it not so tall so that your visitor could see right into the content of the website. Good luck with the site though, very cool!
I just redid the header myself and made a lot of changes. No need to hire someone when you can fix it yourself
Yes I would like to see the site categories front and center. Have you considered moving the login form above the header and have it drop down - just an idea to optimize the header real estate
If you mouseover website address tab you can see it says "Patriotic Voices - Powered by vBulletin", Did you really want it to be like that? .. Powered by vBulletin I wonder why you didn't used Xenforo because it looks better than VB and also less resources needed. Forum has great topics to discuss. Good luck with this project man!
Looks good! Good job! One thing the Social share menu is hiding the Copyright at the bottom, quick fix and all is 100%
I like the site overall, the idea is at least somewhat unique and it looks like you've gotten a decent amount of activity for the short amount of time it has been up. I like the header too. Only two suggestions I have for you 1) Get a custom design for the site (even if it is a free one) 2) Remove the Top 5 stats at the bottom of the page
Oh no...that's jsut for Halloween. Give it another 2 days and it'll be very political looking. Perhaps something historical - I change the banner every month to keep it fresh and sometimes I allow member contests where the members can decide what the forum looks like for a month. Thanksgiving is coming up and I'm thinking the pilgrims and Indians need to be highlighted this time. It's good stuff really
Thank you for the suggestions but they would go against my entire plan. See the whole point of running VB3 is for the comfort of older members. Unlike a lot of us who grew up with technology they're pretty rooted to past softwares such as VB 3.8. So I would contend the software and the theme is one of the reasons that the board has been so successful in a short amount of time. Eventually I will change the theme but I haven't found the right one...and as for custom...that is custom....I did some modding there. Minor sure but still. lol. The top 5 statistics help people see what is new....including me. I would hindering myself if not others without that thing :-/