Please review the design, content, backlinks, etc. of my site. The site is designed for the discussion of certain aspects of tennis. The url is http://www.chattennis.com. I need brutally honest and complete reviews. Thanks Richard
I think you got a great domain name there, straight to the point, and memorable. Nice clean template, just like tennis people like. White/ with an accent color. If I had any criticism it would be your site's title that is used globally. If it were my forum I would try to find a couple niche keywords and place them in the title like: Tennis Chat | Tennis Forum | Open Tennis Discussions | Tennis News. This may not be highly attractive but could help you get your forum to the top of the search engines if you have also done some link building. Anyhow, overall I like your forum and think that domain name will take you places...good luck!
Thanks a lot. I will try and change the title. I am just having a little trouble getting backlinks, slowly but surely.
It needs a better header/logo (The title 'Chat Tennis' is really ugly) Your topics section is too wide. My advice: 1. Get a better template 2. Submit a logo contest in the contest forum, and you will have a professional logo/header for a very decent price. And then this forum would really take off.
Not much to review really. You've got a very new forum. One criticism is the header is very hard to read. I would make the header 100% width and make it more appealing.
I think you need to do some improvement with the header. If you take away the Chat Tennis words (already hard to read) it's hard to guess from the image it is a tennis related site. I agree 100% with theo-zzzz : "Submit a logo contest in the contest forum, and you will have a professional logo/header for a very decent price." Have a look at the contest forum and you will be surprised what a great price and more importantly what a great design you can get from the designers posting in the contest forum.
You have a stock theme that needs more work: try to work on the css and also images. The header image is nice, but you have some background issues there (the layout looks weird at 1200 width for example). It's a good start
initially you might need to have some more content ... try using rss feed from some other site - for breaking tennis news etc. also think of having a picture posting forum .
Nice Domain. You need to get the header changed, I don't like it. The design of the forum is o.k but you might be able to get someone to make you a tennis themed template.
You seem to know a lot about tennis, and you are good in explaining and teaching all the strokes. You should promote that. Use something like this for a title or meta description. 'Learn to play tennis at our forum' And add a classifieds section.
Hello! You have a wonderfully simple domain name! I really like the idea of the forum and as most people have already mentioned -- the header needs adjusting as the text is hard to distinguish due to the background of the image. I also fully agree in getting a logo professionally done -- your domain name is worth it. On another note, your forum has potential and I think that you could improve the overall feel of your website with a little tweaking (these are just my personal suggestions): When I think tennis colours, I immediately think green and white. Your current colours are definitely pleasing to the eye but I think your site would do well with the tennis ball colours -- to me it would just seem.. tennis-y! Again, total personal preference there You need a fav icon, pronto! Your "no new posts" icons could be tennis balls, your new posts.. tennis balls with check marks in the middle? flaming tennis ball? racket? something that stands out! These are minor things, but the end these could little things make big/lasting impressions. Good luck with your forum, great niche!