Maxi Turkey Forums - with custom portal page

[Kusadasi-Guy]

Hi All;

i need your feedback about my forums' skin and custom-portal home page;

www.maxiturkey.com
www.maxiturkey.com/forum.php

[Princeton]

superb portal page :up:

fantastic images (vibrant colors) :up:
spacing throughout layout :up:

content on portal page is just enough to peak interest :up:
content is laid out in a way that encourages scrolling :up:
hot topics below the fold? excellent! :D :up:

can you tell I'm impressed?

[Boofo]

I'm jealous now. :(

And I was even stationed in Sinop, Turkey in 71-72. ;)

[Kusadasi-Guy]

Thank You so much for your nice words Princeton :)
ohh what a small world Boofo ;)

i have changed some things in VBexternal and delivered this portal home.
forum home/portal home thing is tough decision becuase regular forum members dont like this kind of forum home. But potential members likes this :p
because of that, i am forcing members to come back to forum home with navigation drawing ;)

server load? much lower becuase i am caching the portal output and pulling it via custom VBpage ;)


portal home: Page generated in 0.06059 seconds with 5 queries
forum home: Page generated in 0.16008 seconds with 11 queries

[smacklan]

VERY good work there my friend!! You should be proud! Good luck with the site...it should do well ;)

[Blindchild02]

<a href="http://www.maxiturkey.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=186&catid=13" target="_blank">http://www.maxiturkey.com/gallery/sh...i=186&catid=13</a>

wow, thats definately a dude belly dancer... haha

good lookin forum

[Tony G]

One of the best looking portal pages I've ever seen. :)

I really do like your scheme except for that murky green category background. I say replace with a lighter, nicer green gradient instead of what it is now - doesn't look very good IMO.

Overall, very good. I reckon to improve it even more, work on your postbit and forumhome layout/templates. :)

[Kusadasi-Guy]

Thanks Tony,
i am working on article/blog section, i will take a look at again.