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[Cutsizzle]

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Just opened it up today, what are your thoughts on the design?

It's a Boston Sports talk forum for Celtics, Red Sox, Patriots, and Bruins fans.

[MagicThemeParks]

I like the 'feel' of the site and the color scheme works for me. :up:

Couple of suggestions....


Remove the 2nd large banner ad as the layout is pushed too far down and looks distracting
Change the default buttons (like 'new thread', etc) with custom ones like these: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=244469 or https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=171277 or https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=169982 or https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=86494 or https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=138174 or https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=96626
I'd probably remove the 'posting rules' box: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=148619
And for my own personal taste, I like to spice up the postbit area like this: Add sports icons (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=224345) and Add boxes around information for a different look (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=214565)


Good luck with it! :up:

[LifesGreatestGift]

Just opened? O.o

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[Pandemikk]

Yeah. No need to have 2 adverts. You're not going to get twice the revenue. If anything, you're just going to annoy people and discourage clicking - which is where the real money comes from.

The banner and the forum don't line up. They should both be the same width. Remove the "All Times are GMT". No one cares about that and it just looks ugly. Try to get the vB copyrights above the red bar at the bottom. Postbit needs customization. Default post reply buttons and shit are ugly and need to be replaced to match your forum skin. The forum new and forum old icons are a tad too big. Also, square is ugly. Try to get some round corners on those sons of guns.

Arcade link doesn't work. Having 404 links is BAD. Donate button takes you to smilies wtf and it shouldn't be all caps. Your guest message register link should have rel="nofollow" on it.

The forum skin itself is a bit bland. Try adding some spice to it. Red gray and white. :(