I need opinion on how bad or good forum look

[redspider]

my forum link is http://myredspider.net/home
check out my forum and let me know what I need or what I dont need .
be nice I new to this .

thanks

[steven s]

I don't think you should require people to register to view posts.
Go over your spelling. sponcer
I really shouldn't talk since my 2 boards are default styles but. . .
I like the navbar to be consistent. First word in caps.. Not some upper case, some lower.
I like a site nav block in the upper left.
I also would limit the size of your avatar.

[Tony G]

Don't like the scheme, it's a bit hard on the eyes. That might just be because I'm not usually a fan of dark styles. It's mainly the marrone against the black that's causing the problem.

[redspider]

Originally Posted by 1996 328ti

I don't think you should require people to register to view posts.
Go over your spelling. sponcer
I really shouldn't talk since my 2 boards are default styles but. . .
I like the navbar to be consistent. First word in caps.. Not some upper case, some lower.
I like a site nav block in the upper left.
I also would limit the size of your avatar.

thank you I`ll fix the spelling and the nav .

[Sebastian]

good luck getting members to join...

personally, i will never visit a site that forces registration to view post -- that pisses me off.. i just hit the back button and never return to the site,. especially when you have to register to view the forums! people like to see the type of community before joining. some will lurk for a while before they feel comfortable in joining.. the proper way to make a site where people never visit is to do exactly what your doing..

thats my 2 cents.

[redspider]

Originally Posted by Sebastian

good luck getting members to join...

personally, i will never visit a site that forces registration to view post -- that pisses me off.. i just hit the back button and never return to the site,. especially when you have to register to view the forums! people like to see the type of community before joining. some will lurk for a while before they feel comfortable in joining.. the proper way to make a site where people never visit is to do exactly what your doing..

thats my 2 cents.

well after review comments here I open the whole forum to everybody was never my intetion to force people just have the wrong idea because I saw some forum doing the samething .
is open now sorry if i offend some one with this .

[mholtum]

Took forever to load on a 7m Cable line.. Is your server always this slow?

Out of curiosity.. What is your forum for? Topic wise. Hard to tell..

[redspider]

Originally Posted by mholtum

Took forever to load on a 7m Cable line.. Is your server always this slow?

Out of curiosity.. What is your forum for? Topic wise. Hard to tell..

Forum is to give support to a project we working on is a private peer to peer software to offer to site owner those sections are hide till we done with the software.
already have my client just need it to know if forum look good or not so far I got negative feed back mean I have to work hard to make it look better .

thanks to all that comment on this thread.

[Tony G]

You'll have to make the concept of your forum a bit more obvious so that people don't second guess it.

[Brinnie]

Originally Posted by Tony G

You'll have to make the concept of your forum a bit more obvious so that people don't second guess it.

At first, I was trying to figure out whether it was a metal head forum or horror movie forum.

Definitely needs to change the skin... Or the content.

Even then, why do people always have to replacve the macros with random animated stock gifs from Angelfire?

Graphic placement is an art. What the hell is going through people's heads when they add for a poost icon?