I have a general Chat Forum I am wanting people to check out and review. It was recently listed here and I purchased. I put up a new theme and logo and started the re development phase to get activity. http://www.offtopicz.com Please give your honest reviews on what you think of it. It is using a popular XenForo framework for the semi-custom design: UI.X Thoughts? Ideas? Anything to change, add, etc? Thanks in advance.
The current site design looks nice, I haven't yet got the time to explore the site much, but on seeing how beautifully it is designed, I think I am going to hang out more there. BTW: The footer design looks awesome.
Here's my review: Design-Too many white spaces and fonts are too small. Logo-looks nice but looks too formal. Site slogan- might appear inappropriate for some unless that's what you really mean. Purpose of the site- you seem to have more ON topic categories than off topic so now I am confused what the site is for. Especially that the forum name and the domain says offtopicz. As a potential user, I am not sure if I want to join in. New threads and interesting posts- you might want to look at how to highlight this. Potential users would always want to know what's on the site for the first 2 seconds or risk losing the attention.
Thank you Anything to add or change? Thanks for the review. For the design, is there anything I can improve then. I wanted to still incorporate the old theme but not have it as a dark theme, so white background had to be done. Logo is basic flat design to go with the flat design trend and the flat design website look. You can see the logo in its original forum if you switch the style back to the default. I have had several people come up to me about the slogan xD Its been there for years though, so no point in changing it now Site says off topic yes, but it still is a general chat forum nonetheless xD Thanks for your input Thank The footer design is basically that of the UI.X framework. Nothing of my doing.