yousellstuff.com

[yousellstuff]

new thread because a lot of updates were made

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...61#post1613361

4 months, no discussions, nothing to sell, an horrible 5$ style ?!... you will not kick asses with this site for sure... i hope your auctions/classified system works properly at least ?!

(i know i'm rude, but hey, my eyes were hurt when i clicked the link...)

[iogames]

You killed my 20/20

[logicuk]

Horrid design even for $30 you could buy a pre made skin 10x better than your current one

You also need a proper auction system

And some members and posts also wouldnt hurt

[Matt665]

LOL 39 members? I LOL!, obviously someone hasn't looked into marketing.

[Shelley_c]

OKay, so these heartless bunch of reviewers don't like your style so i'll try be be gentle in my critique. To be honest, I flat out agree with them, but I'll point out (visually) where your going wrong.

You like the colour blue which is fine, But try to start a styling project with a 3 colour usage system in mind. You've implemented so much blue in this style it's hard to focus on any areas and determine which colours or what type of theme you want to go with there's just no reference point to suggest anything.

I'm not really sure what to suggest because i can't see any other colours which i think you want to use. Opt for a 3 colour system implementation with the 3 colours complimenting one another (look at the major vb styling providers for tips) you'll also do good by viewing some styles here at the org for that inspiration.

*twiddles Thumbs*

[cheat-master30]

Now, ignoring the rather silly comments saying that 40 members = crap and that every forum should have more in 4 months (forums grow at different rates, remember?), and being relatively polite rather than completely flaming you to heck like seems to be the way with certain recent 'reviews', I have to say that you need to fix that style. Heck, the biggest problem is that the vBulletin default images are still being used on a four month old forum that has a completely different theme to what they were intended to be used on. Heck, ANY effort at customisation would help about now.

My second comment is that it looks rather dead, which is partly due to most forums being empty. You wrote a nice scam prevention post which gives detailed, sound advice for example, but have you thought of writing more in depth intelligent topics or articles related to the forums, if not just to fill up the zero post ones? Need to work on that.

The other major problem I see is that the forum is completely devoid of any features outside the default. At any rate, a proper auction or shop type system would work wonders, as would the various buy and sell modifications like feedback stuff. Just it looks completely devoid of interest or 'professionalism', which will likely put people off massively.

Finally, I think the style just needs a redo. The advertising banner thing should just go, because the interest in private advertisers on a 40 member 47 post forum is about zero, and the banner and style in general just needs some fixing to look presentable.

Customise BB code and smilies as usual (and yes, I do have an interest in everyone using non default BB code and smilies, as people can likely guess).

Good Points about your forum:

1. Not as many forums as I've seen before, which is better than some.

2. Forum name and domain makes it 'just what it says on the tin'.

3. Nice information on scam prevention.

To improve:

1. Get or create a better style, because it looks like it's been made in Paint at the moment, and not in the good way.

2. Customise the other images. Uniqueness matters.

3. Write more content, because you seem like you're good at writing it.

4. Add some specialised buy/sell/trade features like feedback ratings or a proper system.

5. Fill up those empty forums.

6. Post more, or get members to post more, because the posts to members ratio is just poor at the moment (I've seen worse, but it needs improvement).

7. Add more features, add more smilies, add more vB code, customise the phrases a bit more...

Hope the advice helped.

[yousellstuff]

where is a good place to look for styles

should i get one off here or should i buy it

[SEOvB]

First you owe me a new monitor. Mine blew up when i loaded that

Just kidding, check out the styles section here for a bunch of decent free themes, or google "vBulletin skins" and the results that appear should be of the better vBulletin designers

[yousellstuff]

i just purchased one and once i have it set up i will re post it for some reviews. A lot of changes are being done.

One other question, I have very few members, everyone is saying that i should have many more. What am i doing wrong. PLease help