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#11
04-06-2009, 06:10 PM
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A review is a opinion, a brand new vb admin might think you site looks "cool" someone that is not a webmaster might think you did a "good job" but i would like to think the people here know a bit more.
It takes a while to get your site perfect, maybe years, but to get a site online and looking good should be a week, month tops. Here is my review, opinion if you will... 1. why is your logo hosted on photobucket? behind my work firewall i cant even see it....host it onsite. 2. skins too dark and not very "car-y" IMO, toyota is a kind of light hearted, earth friendly, vibrant brand, reflect that on your site. 3. dark blue on black in the welcome message on the homepage is super hard to read, welcome message is bland, like someone said above, add a image or something there. 4. I see under the welcome on the homepage "You don't have permission to see the Chatbox." well that sucks, it is offputting for a guest to see that IMO....people aren't going to register just to see that... 5. homepage in general is off balance with a tall right side with thread and a short left side column, fill up that blank space. 6. guests see a "new post" link in the sidebar on the hompage that take you to a no permissions menu, again, off-putting. same with usercp link, you can hide/change this for guests so there aren't so many bumps in the road. same with the top navbar "quicklinks" "search" and "content" don't work for guests, fix them or remove them. also why have a "logout" button when you are not even logged in. 7. "tune my toyota" is the name, yet we have a multitude of corolla sections and not any other models, that is strange...... That's about all the major points, should give you plenty to do. You came here and made this thread to get advice, every post in the thread so far has had good advice in it, take the advice, make your site better, thank the posters here, and prosper. 
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#12
05-09-2009, 06:52 PM
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2. i now offer 6 different skins that the user can pick from :-) 3.fixed (i think lol) 4.thats just how it is...im working on finding a solution to that..cuz i dont like it either.. 5.working on that also. 6.fixed 7.well..it just kinda happened that way..and its too late to change the name. 8 thank you for ur honesty yet to the point review.. BUMP: Its been updated. Check it out!!!
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#13
05-10-2009, 04:23 AM
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Commenting on 1st appearances and Overall look of your forum:
You could very well benefit by having a custom theme made - Yes you have a ton of skins -- They are obviously premade skins. They are all boring, bland and have nothing to do with Toyota - Even the header is a bit bla... The text does not stand out and is not memorable - In fact - There's nothing memorable about your forum and there's nothing that really says "Toyota!" Um - about your header image - You should truly upload it to your images folder or something - because hosting your main site banner on PhotoBucket is a bit tacky... And what if PhotoBucket is down? Then your header will not show. Jacquii.
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#14
05-10-2009, 09:25 AM
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First impressions, It's dull, bland and visually nothing that says much work went into the design.
The logo - Hosted on photobucket (I know it's been said numerous times) why have you still got it hosted on an image hosting site when you have your own host? Many people like to browse from their workplace and many firms have image hosting sites on their block list. Another reason why you shouldn't use an image hosting site (or third party site for hosting images) if it goes down your images hosted there will not show. Listen to the feedback instead of ignoring it and host your images on your paid hosting. The gradient in the thead are falling short in the height department resulting in the alternative background colour to show. This looks terrible and visually an eyesore. Increase the height of the gradients to a larger scale so the background alternative colour isn't showing. Graphically, there's nothing i like much about the style. Icons and gradients look bland and nothing says to me this is a car related site apart from the domain and logo which don't look that great. In the design department, I suggest going back to the drawing board and start again but only this time with some motivation and creativity put into the design.
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