what do u think of my style beefo? would u register to the site? why/why not

Beefo isnlt here so I will stand in for him/her/it.

It has an interesting look but no real direction. You might want to add a current topics or current news area. And a good debate area, if properly managed, can do wonders to draw peole in and keep them interested. But you hasve to be careful to stay away from 2 subjects...1. Religion and 2. Politics on a deep level.

Is there anything that YOU yourself are interested in?

You dont really have anything really interesting, honestly.

(If your interested in gaming)We set up a dedicated gaming server and posted on a server list, we had over 30 people playing and then it just climbed, 10 registrations per minute at least.

If you want active members, fast, you can always take that route and spend a little money each month or whatever and then make a donation rank (users like to feel special xD) and regain the money, then put the ads back on, you could be possibly making money then.

You can always seek help of another site owner if you know any, they probably have some really good tips, if you are into programming you could probably make some programs people will start to like and come and join.

Like boofo said, you need a direction.

Oh yes, also, in memberlist, you need to get rid of that map. Its really big and pointless.

You need to re-add the memberlist link onto your navbar.

Good luck to you.

OK well im interested in mmorpgs and i also know c++ but only up to making text games/programs. i would love to make it interesting but i just dont know how. how can i make a debate area properly? any other tips?

I have a Fathers' Rights Site and I have a total of 14 members right now. I've only been up since Jan 21st, but I get a lot of guests viewing the site and reading the articles and not signing up. The members I do have are mostly friends that found out about the site or I invited. The reason I'm telling you this is because of the depressing subject of the site, I already know it will never had a lot of members. But that is fine by me as I set it up out of a need that I didn't see being addressed anywhere. I also have an arcade but the mods are in there more than anyone else so I gave up on trying to get them to do anything. We are very relaxed there and don't get too upset about a lot of things. We have guests dropping by at all hours, reading what the need, and then they're gone. I have no real maintenance to worry about other than keeping articles refreshed. Now, I know the minute I get relaxed and start enjoying it, they are going to start showing up. That is a big part of it. Just staying cool and going about your business until it does pick up. And it will, it always does, eventually.

One thing you will never see on my site is ads. That is the single biggest turn-off you can have if you expect to get a lot of members. Once you get the membership built up, then you can do the ads and it isn't as annoying as it is when you don't have that many members, if that makes any sense at all.

yeh it makes alot of sence. What do u suggest for a debate thing. like...a whole new forum for..."debates"?

Nah, just use the Lounge area. I have Bear's Den area and under that I have The Lounge, a Jokes and Anecdotes area and the Poll area. Throw a debate area in the same main forum that you have the Lounge type area in. But... and I stress this... make sure you have set rules for the debate area and do NOT let them deviate from those rules even once, or you will have anarchy. People love a good debate as long as it doesn't get too personal, or get thrown into name calling and things like that.

so for my site i dont REEEALy have a lounge area but i have general chat and under that are articles fun stuff and etc should i put it under general chat

My lounge is the general chat area. Same thing.

so how do you get them to start posting debates? and are there like 10 at a time...? is there a main one? are there teams? what?