[Shelley_c]

Okay, you have to settle for me reviewing your forum. I apologize in advance. I'm english so my english is bad.

Your logo layout is nice, though the design itself is poor. Judging by the thread title (and I could be way off the mark here) is I was expecting a colourfull, vibrant looking logo. Something with tropical fish or something. Again, I could be way off the mark in what your site is about but the logo design isn't anything special although the layout of the logo gives the logo a great potential for a nicer, visually improved design.

The noavatar script on the right should be placed elsewhere. It's hard to view the no avatar design on the same kind of background colour it's being applied upon. Also, imo, it would look better placed somewhere other than the header.

Looking on the forumhome. Is there any need for the moderator column? To me this just takes up valuable space where it would be better spent on spanning the other areas. People know whos staff, they don't need an extra field telling them who's god.

Seriously, I suggest getting rid of the moderator column. I scrolled down further and the height of the forums is gigantic. There's no need for it. Also, the extra images would look better aligned alongside the forum titles instead of underneath them. A more uniformed looking forum is always more pleasing to the eyes and tus far the forum look and feel feel a little irratic or atleast it does to me.

The forum style itself isn't all that great. Whenever I'm about to review a marine related forum I always invision vibrant images and a nice visually vibrant style and always walk away feeling disappointed. Because it's not my style/site I don't feel that bad but I will say you could improve on the design and by replacing geneic icons which bare no relevance to the niche of your site you would be amazed what a simple looking style with the right images could do.

Replace the threadmarkers (Forumdisplay). Default vbulletin icons really give off a bad visually experience and do nothing for your site. Replace them for something that is relevant to your site which would also apply to the rest of the images lingering throughout your forum.

Like I said, the biggest problem i have is the length of your forum index. The main cause of this is the moderator column you have set to be enabled which can easily be disabled in your admincp and massively reduce the amount of scrolling members and visitors will be forced to do when visiting.

Hopefully, this review will compensate for the lack of reviews you got and my english was easily deciphered. Regardless of my critique, goodluck.