Comments & ideas very appreciated

[joerns]

Hello,

I've created an online community for people living in southern Africa. It's called The Moapan Tree (Named after a tree that grows in the region) and is located at http://www.mopane-tree.com - I'd appreciate your feedback and ideas on how the site can be improved.

Cheers,
Joern

[Dean C]

I mean graphically it's not bad, but it's not good - that'd be my first comment. But I have to heap praise on you for having that nice intro text. Even though your domain, to me an outsider means nothing, I still knew right away what your site/forum was about :) Good job!

[Albus]

I mean graphically it's not bad, but it's not good - that'd be my first comment. But I have to heap praise on you for having that nice intro text. Even though your domain, to me an outsider means nothing, I still knew right away what your site/forum was about :) Good job!
For another perspective, I think that graphically it's great. The thing is, you didn't attempt to make it rely on graphics at all, which works as well as anything else. Your colors are nice and soft to look at (not sure how it looks on laptops though). If it were a gaming community I'd probably expect a more graphics intensive look, but as is, I like it a lot.