I Need an opinion on if my forum is good and if it looks good or bad

[kobescoresagain]

Everything other than the links looks good to me.

[Princeton]

Green links have to go.
Right side bar is too wide. (You're wasting valuable space here.)
Secondary navbar (below top ad) is cluttered and unreadable

[Brinnie]

I don't think he cared for a review. Just wanted some traffic.

[Tony G]

Excuse me, on what assumption do you make that?

Brinnie, I would really appreciate you keeping comments like that back, especially when they are simply out of nothing. Critisise the forum, not the person.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Brinnie

I don't think he cared for a review. Just wanted some traffic.

I doubt they cared much for your "review".

[m0nde]

Yes, as the other people have said,

1) get rid of those green links, they clash with the background. Consider simply making them black with that horrible green as the hover colour.

2) for your white links, change the hover colour to black or that complementary blue colour in the scheme.

nota bene: since you paid for this scheme, you should have had the people who designed it do these things before purchase because they're very poor design choices.

4) pare down the number forums. You should be able to cut it down to 10 without much ado. If you need specifics on which to keep and which to merge and what to name the resultants, I recommend asking on vbwebmaster.com

5) try to make the vertical and horizontal aspects a perfect rectangle at all times. push down that advertising rectangle on the right side and put something over there, polls, trader stats, something.

6) brinnie is right that the arcade is out of place. i understand that these things draw people to the site, but yours is a professional forum. i recommend becoming an amazon affiliate and adding a book store of books that you recommend for web site and forum optimisation.

nota bene: if you can't make your site look optimal, why would any right minded web master choose your forum, one about web sites, over something else?

- Sid

[Brinnie]

Originally Posted by Paul M

I doubt they cared much for your "review".

Truth is painful.