Insider Sports Zone Wants Some Feedback

[romeshomey]

I would like to know what you're thoughts are on our forums at www.insidersportszone.com/forums .

I'd like to know what good you see in it and the bad, I'd like to know what improvements I can make.

I'm no good with graphic art, so basically what I'm looking for is an opinion on the forums only, not really the look of the rest of the site, the forums are really all we have there at the time anyways.

Right now we have:
-Forums for most major sports and forums for all major sport teams.
-33+ different styles, 32 of them are NFL team styles.
-vBAdvanced (CMPS) Portal pages for all 32 NFL teams as of now, more to come.
-vBookie
-vArcade
-Articlebot - for news feeds

I think thats it, you may find more, thats just what I could think of off the top of my head. Our forums have been up for almost 4 years now and I want to make more improvements too them, but first I'd like to know what some real vB professionals think of the place. It is worth improving or is there already enough to offer?

[Corriewf]

Originally Posted by romeshomey

I would like to know what you're thoughts are on our forums at www.insidersportszone.com/forums .

I'd like to know what good you see in it and the bad, I'd like to know what improvements I can make.

I'm no good with graphic art, so basically what I'm looking for is an opinion on the forums only, not really the look of the rest of the site, the forums are really all we have there at the time anyways.

Right now we have:
-Forums for most major sports and forums for all major sport teams.
-33+ different styles, 32 of them are NFL team styles.
-vBAdvanced (CMPS) Portal pages for all 32 NFL teams as of now, more to come.
-vBookie
-vArcade
-Articlebot - for news feeds

I think thats it, you may find more, thats just what I could think of off the top of my head. Our forums have been up for almost 4 years now and I want to make more improvements too them, but first I'd like to know what some real vB professionals think of the place. It is worth improving or is there already enough to offer?

Aww you got the Jaguars..... I am not saying anything bad.

[high]* Corriewf keeps mouth shut.[/high]

[romeshomey]

Thanks, and don't be afraid to say anything bad, I'd like to know. I'v put alot of work into the boards and now find myself struggling to find active members. So I'd like to know why we are having such a hard time with activity, want to know if its the boards, or just that there is so many other sporting communities to choose from, its not an easy place to find I guess. We have alot of activity through the NFL season though usually.

[kobescoresagain]

hey I was wondering if you could share the files of your nba, nfl, nhl, and mlb icons that you put on the forum. Also if you could tell me where to put them. I run a sports card trading site and I was going to make ones that looked almost exactly like that, thouhgt if you would share I wouldn't have to do any work.

Also I think that you site is awesome, one cool thing you could add is to take an rss feed from espn.com and place it either in a forum or scolling or something. That would be awesome to add to your site. I have one on my site from ap. But I beleive you can get that only from my host.

[blueuniverse]

I like the individual icons for the forums, I think that looks excellent. I do think you'd benefit from changing the default icons though like lastpost and quote, just to give it a more original look. I also think the header would look a lot better if it could stretch in some way, and also if it was enclosed by another boreder coming off the forum bit. On my monitor the header only takes up about half the screen.

Other than that it is good, and although it isn't probably that original as an idea, the way you've presented it with individual icons make it different from the norm and that works well.

Good luck