TheTeenCentre asking for a review

[ms55555]

Name: The Teen Centre
Link: http://www.theteencentre.com

Demo account:
Username : vbdemo
Password : demo

Styles:
http://www.theteencentre.com/forums/index.php?styleid=25 [Main style]
http://www.theteencentre.com/forums/index.php?styleid=26 [Previous main style, now it's being refined]

also:
http://www.theteencentre.com/forums/index.php?styleid=24 [Still in dev]
http://www.theteencentre.com/forums/index.php?styleid=28 [this is the well known Blak-ice]

it would be nice to hear some feedback on:
Styling, interface and forums order/layout
or
anything else you want/think :)
Manos

[Princeton]

style 24 is by far the best choice in terms of colors and readability
style 24 increases your chances of success

everything else should be removed

[Oyobiia]

Why not have a go at making your own style?

Apart from that, your forum looks clean and ok. Good content and goodf usage.

Love,
Oyobiia

[ms55555]

Why not have a go at making your own style?

Apart from that, your forum looks clean and ok. Good content and goodf usage.

Love,
Oyobiia
Thanks to both of you for the replies :)
As far as making my own style, I thought of doing that, but I finally decided not to start from scratch but use other styles as the base. I am not really planning to release any styles, it's just for usage inside TC, and more or less I am adapting them to the site's needs, which means, gentle changes, but over a long period of time that leads to quite some personalisation of the style and site more or less in a unique way
:)

Now as far as deleting the rest styles and keeping 24 only, even though I like it, the members tend to prefer 25 and 26 so I can't delete them. If you however have any comments or thoughts on changes to any of the styles that would make them more usable and clean I would love to hear
Thanks again!
:)

[Aceman]

One of the better looking sites I've reviewed. Your organization seems good. You "kockout" skin seems the best. However I do have a suggestion regarding that skin.

1. Remove one of the login areas. You've got two of them on that template.
2. Your header seems large with regard to the height. I would suggest shrinking it by 50% and adding some photos of teens to the logo so it's more personal.
3. Remove the <br /> statement either before the $navbar or at the end of your header template. This will remove the noticeable space you after your header but before your navbar.

BTW - if you don't want to let your users use the other templates. From the style manager simply uncheck that themes you don't want available to the general public.

[ms55555]

One of the better looking sites I've reviewed. Your organization seems good. You "kockout" skin seems the best. However I do have a suggestion regarding that skin.

1. Remove one of the login areas. You've got two of them on that template.
2. Your header seems large with regard to the height. I would suggest shrinking it by 50% and adding some photos of teens to the logo so it's more personal.
3. Remove the <br /> statement either before the $navbar or at the end of your header template. This will remove the noticeable space you after your header but before your navbar.

BTW - if you don't want to let your users use the other templates. From the style manager simply uncheck that themes you don't want available to the general public.

Thanks a lot, I have to admit you really made me happy with your words :)
Also thanks for the recommendations, I will take care of them :D