Feedback - What would you suggest?

[DreadsUK]

So we are reshaping the forum with the vision of making it more interactive for new users and drive more people to create accounts.

This is what we are going for, for the home page



The idea behind it is that it's as plain and clear as possible. It seems to me that forums as the home page seems cluttered. Well, ours is anyway.

What you guys think?

[Paul M]

Moved to reviews forum.

[BBNZowner]

I'd get rid of/change the green text. To me that negates having a cleaner look, I'd change the font and reevaluate the colour.

The rest may work quite well if you can find someone to code and design it for you. Maybe consider having a 'recent posts' widget as well though - people do like to see activity is taking place. And on your forum it seems a nice little community is coming together so I'd try advertise that.

[DreadsUK]

Originally Posted by BBNZowner

I'd get rid of/change the green text. To me that negates having a cleaner look, I'd change the font and reevaluate the colour.

Do you mean under the buttons for tutorial/shop/articles/dreadlocks

I agree. I had someone comment saying they dint know where those buttons would take them so i added the extra wording. But yea, its looking like that bit could use a tidy.

How about ''The Community Network' under the logo? I think that works.

Originally Posted by BBNZowner

The rest may work quite well if you can find someone to code and design it for you. Maybe consider having a 'recent posts' widget as well though - people do like to see activity is taking place. And on your forum it seems a nice little community is coming together so I'd try advertise that.

That could be an idea. Might have a look at where that might fit

[Zachery]

The white image in the find your dreadlocks journey looks like someone with MS paint created it.

Either use regular old html/text or at least center align some text on an image, with a transparent background via a png or something.

[webmastersun]

Beautiful but may be not friendly with search engines

[DreadsUK]

Originally Posted by webmastersun

Beautiful but may be not friendly with search engines

oh? how come?

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by DreadsUK

oh? how come?

Images are bad mojo for search engines, they don't translate your buttons. Even with alt/title text they still arnt that good.

You should opt for real text whenever you can.

[DreadsUK]

Originally Posted by Zachery

Images are bad mojo for search engines, they don't translate your buttons. Even with alt/title text they still arnt that good.

You should opt for real text whenever you can.

Do you mean the

'Tutorials Shop Articles Dreadlocks' ones?

[BBNZowner]

Any you can really, although menu ones like that are probably the most important if its going to be the landing page and will be crawled. This is even an issue I'll be working on with my forum