Ahh I saw vista in your banner . Add more categories and forum, one could get bored if he keeps posting in the same few forums. At the 3 stats box down there(birthday, visitor stat), put the "who is online" box the top among those 3. Finally, reduce the space from the header to the first forum(tip: visitors don't like scrolling)
i think there is too much dead space at the top of the forum. Eliminate the ad so that we can see the categories. the search tool is also a bit too small imo. . .Add categories as the site grows and reorganize then.
suzybakeoven; The theme of the forum is .. general ;D it's a general forum. locomotion; thank you. i might move some things, i'll test it out and see how it works before and if i make that public I'll consider moving the advert.. though i dunno where i'd put it... i tried putting it in the main header and it sort of fucked it up so i moved it there. The forum has been open less than a month and here are my statistics: Posts per day: 17.44 Topics per day: 1.98 Users per day: 2.48 Is that good for a forum which has been open for less than a month?
when I go online I look for something specific i.e. if I wanted advice on partenting, I might nor ask this on this forum b/c this one's about ad revenue Try reorganizing around a specific niche. You'll get more readership that way.
Well my 'niche' is generally society, things to do with social issues, politics, religion, sexuality and life in general; this separates me from most 'general' sites which are 'talk about what ever the fuck you want' heh.
Ah! To everyone who told me to move the Advertisement as it gets in the way, I've made it so if you register, the advertisement goes away. I've put a link under the advert saying "REMOVE THESE ANNOYING ADS?" and it links to the registration page. A little incentive, I guess.