I've developed a forum based website with a social networking feel to it. I added lots of mods including member photo galleries, member comment wall, members friends, members blogs, dynamic moods, and much more. I tried to organize the forums to be user friendly and too accommodate a lot of information that gets posted over the course of the forums life. Please let me know what you think of the layout, color scheme, category structure and also feel free to join to see what member features it contains. Thank you everyone for your time and I look forward to hearing from everyone.

http://www.powwowpalace.com

I would rate it somewhere around 8 out of 10.The colour scheme and outlook is CLEAN and nice which really looks professional stuff.the only things i would like to point out for improving your website is that the gallery section is empty at the moment and i myself when visit any website which has lake of stuff or any category is empty it automatically makes me close that page.and when i clicked that radio linked it did not work for me is that a broken link?Plus, are you spreading your forums around? because it looks you have less members according to the quality of your web.Advertise it may be and when you will have a good number of members this forum will rock i believe.

I'd agree with cute-gurl-16. Nice and clean, simple, and well laid out. Good color scheme. Get that forum bumping and you'll be good to go brah.

The ads at the top of the screen are an immediate turn off. Also, consider what target market you're trying to appeal to. "Pow Wow" doesn't bring anything to mind except teepees and war drums to someone not familiar with your site. There are thousands of forums available so I would condense what you offer to one line (since the average attention span is about 2 seconds) and deliver it where "see what the pow wow is all about."

I agree with KAIGAN have just said... The ads at the top of the screen are an immediate turn off... You better check it out...

Thank you everyone for the input... I turned off the ads.

You need to reorganize your forums into categories, since you don't really need a category per one forum section. It doesn't look good.

Originally Posted by dWhite

You need to reorganize your forums into categories, since you don't really need a category per one forum section. It doesn't look good.

Could you give me an example please, thanks.