What do you guys think about my new website? It's a forum for expatriates. Is the name confusing? I did "play" with the word "expat"... I had a very hard time choosing a domain-name, all the good ones are of course already taken.

"Expaters" - I know it's not a real word but does it make sense for all you people speaking English as native language?

The website it completely new and it doesn't got any posts yet. But what do you guys think?
I did choose the original theme just because when updating forums there's often problems with custom themes, on this theme I just made a logo in photoshop. (Sorry for my bad English)

Expaters - Expat Forum

Hi, The forum looks fine, though I would make the white space around the banner a bit smaller, it is taking up too much room.

You should probably get some comments in the various departments so it looks like its alive.

Good luck with it.

Thanks for your reply. But what do you think about the made up word "Expaters"? Could it "work"? It's really hard for me to know that since English isn't my native language.

The domain name is generally pretty irrelevent, didn't seem to worry people like google and yahoo, the only thing that will make the forum work is you, can YOU make it work?

Originally Posted by ThailandForum

The domain name is generally pretty irrelevent, didn't seem to worry people like google and yahoo, the only thing that will make the forum work is you, can YOU make it work?

I've started up several forums. One got 23000 members, so YES I can make it work.

Looks ok.
I think its a bit plain to be honest. I think you should get more of a design to the header section at least.

But it seems to be popular! So good luck with it.