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gorejos
12-05-2008, 04:04 AM
Hey this is my first VB on my site ever finally grew guts to get one, and the new forum had members then all of sudden went to sleep.

so I am doing something wrong, can you review and give me some feedback on what went wrong.

http://www.findingjesustoday.com/forums/

site descrition A Non-denomination Site where people can discuss their faith with others.

Forum open to Guest Posting


tips on landing Members

here what i done.

site on TV Radio and hired orangesoda to do the search engines.

advertising landed 2 in one week.

any advice

the site going on 2 yrs forum 6 months.

RedeemedWarrior
12-05-2008, 04:29 AM
well the sites go nothing wrong with it really, personally i find the skin abit dull, yet thats just my taste

I think its a good Topic, a clean layout, maybe try adding some features to make it fun for a community

gorejos
12-05-2008, 04:37 AM
what are few features that are most popular and where to find them.

planning on upgrading to 3.8 when released

thanks

RedeemedWarrior
12-05-2008, 04:45 AM
Well if you'd like to have alook at the link in my siggie (the forum)

thats all the modifications i use

I have a p3tz system
Arcade
a character creation system
alot of other stuff too.lol too much to spam ya thread with :P

gorejos
12-05-2008, 05:09 AM
some of those are cool, and I joined your forum like it.

could you help install these plug in not really a programer.

keep hitting kill switch

Shelley_c
12-05-2008, 05:20 AM
I have to agree, the style is a little dull. I never could quite put my finger on why this was such a dullified looking style and I came to the conclusion that it was the alt1& alt2 areas that are the cause of the blandness. Tweak around in changing the colours/using alternative gradients to bring the whole style out of the closet or something like that.

The logo is also awfully dull. Check out the amount of grey within the repeated area? It's not doing the visual look any justice. Again, re-colour the whole logo and text so your breaking away from the blue and dull grey used throughout.

The forum status icons are a little generic for a religious orientated forum. Fine if you are a resource site but try and replace the generic icons which compliments the religious theme you have going.

Another good suggestion i always make is to replace all the deafult vbulletin stock images. Being saturated they are only adding that dullness to your theme.

Withall that said, The visuals is only a small part of your forum that you need to work on. You also need to provide the content to entice guests to register and harder still keep those registered members interested in sticking around.

gorejos
12-05-2008, 05:33 AM
thanks I work on it

RedeemedWarrior
12-05-2008, 07:18 AM
some of those are cool, and I joined your forum like it.

could you help install these plug in not really a programer.

keep hitting kill switch
I could volunteer alittle time to help yes at a later date, but sadly atm my time is 100% on other projects. i'm working as tech admin on about 7 sites atm

gorejos
12-05-2008, 05:31 PM
I could volunteer alittle time to help yes at a later date, but sadly atm my time is 100% on other projects. i'm working as tech admin on about 7 sites atm

cool no rush

I be pretty busy for december