Cujo
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Post by Cujo on Feb 5, 2009 19:52:57 GMT -7
Okay, my friends and I made this site [I'm the main admin] a while ago. I made the default skin; it was thrown together rather quickly. We don't have many members yet, but I was hoping to get some opinions on the basic layout and whatnot. Here is the link.
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Post by Nudge on Feb 5, 2009 20:00:09 GMT -7
There is quite a bit you should do. There is such a thing as too little and too much. In my opinion you have too little. By too little I mean, you need to have more boards. You also need shorter descriptions in your boards. Nobody is really going to read all those words. You should also change the color of the admins, because a dark text color doesn't really go so well with a dark template. It just makes it harder to read. Also, you should make some on/off icons and info center icons. If you want you can request some inside of the Graphic Request board. Also get a banner. They are always good to have. Overall, I would give you a 4/10
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Cujo
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Post by Cujo on Feb 5, 2009 20:05:45 GMT -7
I'm graphic retarded. XP [To put it nicely.] I don't really like a lot of board clutter, and we only have two islands as of yet. We haven't thought of any more to add. As for the admin color, I just picked a color I liked. The dark colors are easier for me to see; that's why I have it set that way. We have other, brighter skins. (A tie-dye one and another blue and green one. I can set them on default if you want to see them.)
I'll check out the graphic request board; a friend of mine was going to make graphics and stuff for us, but she's been busy.
Thanks for giving feedback. ^^
- Cujo
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Post by grievous on Feb 5, 2009 20:07:40 GMT -7
Hello. - First thing noticed; As soon as your forum loaded, I right away noticed the skin..I really like the skin, it is indeed
nice awesome and win.
- In my experience, (and I don't mean any offense by this) having your rules board titled in some sort of slang seems unprofessional. I understand you're wanting to have some fun with it, but in most cases, the members think because it's a bit slang, they can ignore a few rules, or ignore all the rules all together.
- Categories and Boards; I honestly think you need some more boards. (Maybe 1 or 2, or for your rp and some for the 'General Board' [Maybe make some more off topic related boards?])
- From what I can see, you have more staff than members. Mite wanna wait till you have more members to stack up on staff.
- The "Outcast Island" board seems to be the most active..only 2 threads and 50+ post.
Overall score; 4/10 Don't sweat it, it's still a new forum and it will improve with more members.
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Cujo
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Post by Cujo on Feb 5, 2009 20:15:04 GMT -7
The rules board wasn't created by me; my friend [Azen/Jasper] created it. She was just messing around and I haven't bothered to change it yet. I've been to busy with school and such to do any major editing on the forum. I'll probably go change it when I'm done posting this.
As I stated before, board clutter bothers me. I'm just one of those people that has to have everything condensed and organized. (I get told I have OCD a lot. -.-)
As for staff, not many of them are active and I [or Azen] will be changing their status. Azen, Alis, and I are the admins; we came up with the idea for the site together. Meer is one of my closest friends and [sort of] is our graphic person. She's been really busy lately and hasn't had a chance to make any graphics and the like for us, though.
As for the thread count, only Azen and I have access to a computer whenever we want. Alis has really slow internet and two brothers that hog the computer all the time; she doesn't get much time online.
Thanks for commenting!
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Post by grievous on Feb 5, 2009 20:30:42 GMT -7
You're very welcome.
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