[peterska2]

Hi, I've taken a look at your site and these are my comments.

Firstly, it's very green. Green is good, but with the black active tab background, it doesn't seem to be very smooth. The black background, especially when you get towards the bottom of the page, gives it an unfinished look IMO. Personally, I would consider using a different color for the active tab page background.

With regards to your navigation, I love the way that you have done your tabs. It is very simplistic, yet very effective.

One thing I find very effective is that the last 5 posts from each of your major forum tabs are shown on each one, enabling easy access to new topics regardless of which forum you are on.

Going into your actual threads, I like your simplistic, to the point, style of buttons. Nothing over heavy there or graphic intensive, just nice and plain and what you need to know. Your postbit is very clean, every matches nicely, and it has a good flow to the page. I particulary like your rank images, they are very fitting for your site.

Looking at your member profiles, I was almost expecting to see something a little different from the default template. When I got there, I was rather disappointed to find that they are bog standard default. Perhaps a little sprucing up of these would be in order, it certainly wouldn't hurt.

The only other thing I found very distracting is the sheer amount of adverts that you have on each page. It is almost impossible to look at any part of the page without having at least one banner add being shown to you. This is one thing that I particularly detest and if I was looking at your site with a view towards signing up, it would probably stop me from doing so. In saying that though, it is important that your site breaks even especially as it is rather a big site and so will have high running costs.

One final point to make, which is a much more general and site wide one, than in repect of particular page. While viewing your site to do this review for you, on three occassions the server timed out. while not important for this purpose, if I was a general user who had found your site by some other means, it would most likely cause me to close my browser and go elsewhere hence costing you traffic which is potential members.