TheTeenCentre asking for a review

[ms55555]

Name: The Teen Centre
Link: http://www.theteencentre.com

Demo account:
Username : vbdemo
Password : demo

Styles:
http://www.theteencentre.com/forums/...php?styleid=25 [Main style]
http://www.theteencentre.com/forums/...php?styleid=26 [Previous main style, now it's being refined]

also:
http://www.theteencentre.com/forums/...php?styleid=24 [Still in dev]
http://www.theteencentre.com/forums/...php?styleid=28 [this is the well known Blak-ice]

it would be nice to hear some feedback on:
Styling, interface and forums order/layout
or
anything else you want/think
Manos

[Princeton]

style 24 is by far the best choice in terms of colors and readability
style 24 increases your chances of success

everything else should be removed

[Oyobiia]

Why not have a go at making your own style?

Apart from that, your forum looks clean and ok. Good content and goodf usage.

Love,
Oyobiia

[ms55555]

Originally Posted by Oyobiia

Why not have a go at making your own style?

Apart from that, your forum looks clean and ok. Good content and goodf usage.

Love,
Oyobiia

Thanks to both of you for the replies
As far as making my own style, I thought of doing that, but I finally decided not to start from scratch but use other styles as the base. I am not really planning to release any styles, it's just for usage inside TC, and more or less I am adapting them to the site's needs, which means, gentle changes, but over a long period of time that leads to quite some personalisation of the style and site more or less in a unique way


Now as far as deleting the rest styles and keeping 24 only, even though I like it, the members tend to prefer 25 and 26 so I can't delete them. If you however have any comments or thoughts on changes to any of the styles that would make them more usable and clean I would love to hear
Thanks again!

[Aceman]

One of the better looking sites I've reviewed. Your organization seems good. You "kockout" skin seems the best. However I do have a suggestion regarding that skin.

1. Remove one of the login areas. You've got two of them on that template.
2. Your header seems large with regard to the height. I would suggest shrinking it by 50% and adding some photos of teens to the logo so it's more personal.
3. Remove the <br /> statement either before the $navbar or at the end of your header template. This will remove the noticeable space you after your header but before your navbar.

BTW - if you don't want to let your users use the other templates. From the style manager simply uncheck that themes you don't want available to the general public.

[ms55555]

Originally Posted by Aceman

One of the better looking sites I've reviewed. Your organization seems good. You "kockout" skin seems the best. However I do have a suggestion regarding that skin.

1. Remove one of the login areas. You've got two of them on that template.
2. Your header seems large with regard to the height. I would suggest shrinking it by 50% and adding some photos of teens to the logo so it's more personal.
3. Remove the <br /> statement either before the $navbar or at the end of your header template. This will remove the noticeable space you after your header but before your navbar.

BTW - if you don't want to let your users use the other templates. From the style manager simply uncheck that themes you don't want available to the general public.

Thanks a lot, I have to admit you really made me happy with your words
Also thanks for the recommendations, I will take care of them