I need an honest critique of my website and forum. Tell me what I need to improve on the site in general and on the forum. Any advice would be much appreciated. Here is the link www.chattennis.com.

Thanks,

Richard

First, I would like to say I am digging the picture b/c that chick is hot your site scores points right off the bat for that!

It looks unfinished. It looks like it is caught somewhere between oldschool web and web 2.0.

1)
Maybe you could try adding some color to it? You definitely should add something to the headers on the main pages as well as the forum. Smple can be good if it is done right. The getting it right part can be tricky though.

2)
Maybe reword the little greeting paragraph. I like how it states wtf your site is but I'm not crazy about the last paragraph.


Out of curiousity, what script are you using? Did you write it yourself? It seems similar to wordpress. I like it

The link you gave is not working?

For SEO purposes, you should really consider editing your <title> tag to display Chat Tennis and not the URL.

Secondly your forum is in dire need of a better design. Consider downloading and using one of many thousand of free phpBB skins available for phpBB.

Also, definitely hire a designer to make you a nice header for that site. Users, especially sport fans like that, love images.