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Old 01-26-2007, 12:02 AM
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Hotwheels, the "round" roll-up button on the top right of each panel has the four corners showing in blue. Other than that, your site is well done.
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Old 01-26-2007, 01:20 AM
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The forum badly needs to be re-skinned. If you make the background plain white, lighten the postbit text, and get rid of all borders andunderlines it will look a hundred times better. Or even better, set the 'Fireball' theme as default (providing you get rid of the borders on it as well). The concept of the forums is a good one, but the skin is killing all potential.
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Old 01-26-2007, 11:45 PM
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Or even better, set the 'Fireball' theme as default (providing you get rid of the borders on it as well).
I had the fireball set up as the default and i tried the heavy metal as default, the member's complained that it was way to dark.......so i tried to meet the members half way, and built the grey/silver screen......I really do appreciate the feedback on my site.....thanks.

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Hotwheels, the "round" roll-up button on the top right of each panel has the four corners showing in blue. Other than that, your site is well done.
I will change those for sure.......
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Old 02-06-2007, 06:25 PM
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Mustangs . . .






just kidding looks ok. navbar is a little bit busy.
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Old 02-07-2007, 03:14 PM
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Way to busy. You have stuff moving, scrolling, flashing, and images swapping everywhere. The first thing I would suggest would be to tone that all down. Bells and Whistles are fun and all, until they interfere with using the site. Personally all that "fluff" is giving me a headache, and more importantly it may be driving off potential members.

The logo lettering needs to be defined more. I can barely read the title, and I have no idea what the tag line is. I would also drop the random image part of it as it works against developing a brand recognition.

You have 2 welcome messages for guests on the forum home. Lose the lower one and give a bit more detail to the one at the top. It is customised, but still very stock.

The skins themselves are quite basic and seem to have very little to do with the site theme. The default one is probably the best, but all the flashing draws my eyes away from the actual content. Keep flashing to important items, if at all.

You need more content. Your highest posting forum is a bot forum, that is not good. You need content that is relevant to the site and the community.

There are also way to many forums for the activity level. Combine similar forums to boost there content, then as the community needs it you can branch out again.

This goes along with my first comment about the site being to busy......way to many mods. This is causing the nav bar to look flooded and the whole forum in general to be overwhelming and not focused on the topic. My suggestion is to reevaluate the mods you have and remove ones that serve no purpose to the community you are trying to grow. This will also be a benefit as your forum grows, mods take up resources and this can become a problem when a forum gets big.

It is a good start, but I think it could use some work. Keep at it and you will end up with a great forum .
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Old 02-13-2007, 12:00 PM
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Thanks calash, that is an awesome review.
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