Hi,

I have launched a money making forum two months ago. It was shutted down by any hacker due to which it has been down during last one month. I have started it again with some changes.

Please review and give me suggestions how to improve it. I shall be very greatful to you. Forum URL is

www.earnonlineforum.com

your site need more content.

I do not like the logo or the template I think the site would look better if you got a more professional logo and template.

Originally Posted by kingofsanda

I do not like the logo or the template I think the site would look better if you got a more professional logo and template.

From the looks of it, I think he did use a professional template. Everything looks polished except for the content and the crusty looking stuff he appears to have added to the template.

There's a few big problems with the site

* There's no welcome or other type of hook. People just coming to the site don't have anything to draw them in.

* The zebra look of some of the top level menus is pretty bad. The background image you're using (/abusing) from your template there is meant to make a much smaller menu look polished, not to make a big menu look stripped. You might thing it looks clever, but to most people it'll look incompetent.

* You should repeat-x the gradient pattern in the header of the site. Not doing so makes the site look unfinished or broken.

* You need to work to make the polish on the top cluster of navigation links match the polish seen on the rest of the template. Not doing so makes everything look very tacky. When you're using a template like this you need to be very careful to make sure any thing you add fits in smoothly with what's already there. Otherwise you risk ending up with some aweful frankstein looking thing.

Originally Posted by cassclark

From the looks of it, I think he did use a professional template. Everything looks polished except for the content and the crusty looking stuff he appears to have added to the template.

There's a few big problems with the site

* There's no welcome or other type of hook. People just coming to the site don't have anything to draw them in.

* The zebra look of some of the top level menus is pretty bad. The background image you're using (/abusing) from your template there is meant to make a much smaller menu look polished, not to make a big menu look stripped. You might thing it looks clever, but to most people it'll look incompetent.

* You should repeat-x the gradient pattern in the header of the site. Not doing so makes the site look unfinished or broken.

* You need to work to make the polish on the top cluster of navigation links match the polish seen on the rest of the template. Not doing so makes everything look very tacky. When you're using a template like this you need to be very careful to make sure any thing you add fits in smoothly with what's already there. Otherwise you risk ending up with some aweful frankstein looking thing.

Thank you for suggestions. I have changed the nav bar of my forum and also done some other changes.
Now tell me how it looks now?

Thanks

I think that you need to improve the design and color scheme of your, so the appearance can be more attractive!

Originally Posted by johnlloyd

I think that you need to improve the design and color scheme of your, so the appearance can be more attractive!

What should be my forums colour scheme. Is green don't look good?? The same template is available in black, brown, light blue, dark blue, yello and orange.

This website could do with alot of imporvement.

First of all improve the design my adding better images and stuff like that. You could change the colour scheme.

I think its a little too thin because the description of the forums are like 6-7 lines long each and it also shows sub forums which makes them even longer. This makes it hard for the user. It made me get of it.

You could also add alot more better content.

Originally Posted by AD7863

This website could do with alot of imporvement.

First of all improve the design my adding better images and stuff like that. You could change the colour scheme.

I think its a little too thin because the description of the forums are like 6-7 lines long each and it also shows sub forums which makes them even longer. This makes it hard for the user. It made me get of it.

You could also add alot more better content.

Actually I have decreased the length of my board. That is why it looks so thin. My board has almost 33 forums and expanding makes them too long.
I haven't noticed before that my forums look thin. Thanks for pointing.
I think that I should expand them and also decrease the size of right side bar.

I think you may have too many sections for the current stage of the forum.

I would increase the width. Right now there's a lot of scrolling because of the scrunched up forum descriptions.

The logo doesn't really match the design and could use an upgrade.

Everything else looks pretty solid.

The template could be a little cleaner. Tidy the advertisements up just a little and it will do the site soe justice.

I did like the colors but the ads were all over the place.

Keep the visitors happy and the need for so many ads may not be required.

~ Mike