My site is http://forums.ancestry-world.com This is my first forum and am looking for quick reviews, good or bad. The site has been up for 2 months. Thanks, Curt
you really need to get some content on there. All thoughs empty forums with no posts is very off puting for any potential new members. create your self about 10-20 accounts and start posting amongst yourslef to build up the content to make it look more attractive to new members.
The color combination makes the forum look a bit generic I think the forum would look better if you changed up the color scheme.
load fast and the style should be more good looking with a little change - replace the welcome content to the hot forum categories. it will improve your site usage.
Thank You for the comments. I added a Content Management System. Let me know if this adds benefit. http://ancestry-world.com Curt
I like it. maybe you could do some posting in the forum? also, maybe you can change the domain to other one which is a short domain?
There are too many categories and hence the page has become too long. Try to reduce it to two or three page down.
Hi, It is a good clean stock standard forum, as far as I can see. I have no interest in genealogy, but the story, and the exchange, in the brickwall section I found interesting enough. About Amey, if I remember correctly. I agree with a previous poster about adding some more refential type content. You may also valorise the story (Amey) and put it on the front page as it really does give a flavour of what is involved and make the topic somewhat interesting to those who know little about it. I particularly found the tenacity exhibited by the main poster rather interesting as a human portrait. You should really use this more effectively than hoping that people will simply discover it as they stumble on your site. I must add, that it is professional also, to have a fluid layout. Kudos, Enjoy
Thank You MidGe48. I will take your advice. I have added an RSS feeds thread. Let me know what you think of it. Thanks, Curt
I would go with a different skin and less topics, be more specific in a topic, and add sub topics. I believe you can do that with your forum, if not you can always find a hack for it.
It seemes to be fast in loading but you can try a unique one instead of having common color schemes(grey with blue combination).Thanks for your effort.
Thanks for your input all. Keep it coming. I just added Youtube instructional videos. What are your thoughts, Curt
I feel like the forum is tart growing, right? It will take time and if you help filling of content, it will grow faster. Maybe a list of surnames by origin (german surenames, etc) will atract visitors. Im from Argentina and here many people are searching for ancestors in europe. Good luck!!