Requesting a full review for DGA

Vongola-x at 14h40
28
Jan
2012
Name of the Forum: Dueling Genesis Academy
Address: http://tdga.forumotion.com/forum.htm
Type of Review (Do not Edit): Full Review
Your Name on the board: Vongola-x
Proof of Administration: http://img857.imageshack.us/img857/2411/admif.png
Note: We restarted our ranks, meaning our user-groups, not long ago, so most members will be in the user-group "Apprentice".

Regards,
Vongola-x
1 Red., on 28/01/2012 at 16h43
Tagged. Will be completed soon Wink
2 Red., on 31/01/2012 at 23h16
Dueling Genesis Academy Review


    I’ve browsed through your forum using latest versions of three most-used Internet browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera, and haven’t found any major flaws or bugs, which is an important basis for every website/forum to start with. This is one of the forums which uses consistent colour pallete combined with contrast of colorful details, so stick to that when you create future layouts, too. I’m not very familiar with content and subject of your forum, but I can say that banners in the descriptions are stunning and attractive, as well as other graphic elements of the forum. Overall, I have quite good first impressions about your forum, keep up the good work.


    The header is a combination of simplicity and creativity, and it kind of resembles the essence, soul of the entire forum – monumental buildings it’s stability, powerful character it’s strength. Simple navigation bar is very well used because it is contrast to colorful header above it. As I said before, banners in description of the forums and subforums are extraordinary, but the thing I don’t like are buttons. It’s good that they’re simple, but the shadow/stroke around the text is too strong. Feel free to reduce it’s opacity. As for the portal, it’s capacity is well used, content is well organized, nothing to improve about it. Also, for the sake of design and usability of your forum, you should try to make a rule that will restrain users from using big signatures (they extend forum’s loading time, and sometimes annoy users because they have to scroll too much for reading last posts).
    In general, graphics are quite good, and if you improve these things I said, you’ll improve quality and usability of your forum, too.



    Our users have posted a total of 20713 messages
    We have 764 registered users

    Such a big number of registered users, well done! But post number is quite low considering how many members does your forum have (And almost ½ of it makes posts of Administrators). You can improve it by finding new affiliates and exchange advertisting banner with them so more interested members see it, register, and start posting. You can also make some competition with catchy prized that will attract new users. The good thing about your activity is that the posts are almost even in all of forums/subforums – that’s a sign that existing members involve themselves in posting on entire forum equally, they don’t concentrate on a few only.


    I guess administrators of the forum are some kind of masters/rulers/kings of this Dueling Academy because there are 8 active ones. You surely agree that 8 admins for managing a forum is too many. If that’s some kind of Dueling organization, that’s okay. As for moderators, I can see only one, but considering number of admins, I guess his job doesn’t require that much of dedication. Other groups resemble game characters, so I won’t make any comment on them because I’m not familiar with this kind of forum topic. In general, if your forum requires this kind of organization, it’s fine. If, on the other hand, admins are there only because of managing technical aspects of the forum, you should exclude at least 4 of them from the group.


    I am sure that I’ve run across a few dueling forums before, but I have never seen one as unique as this. It contains some personal touch so people can recognize it easily, and I am sure that it’s quite well organized and neatly administrated, because it gives off some kind of professionalism.
    In conclusion, keep up the good work, form an advertising team that will help you with promoting your forum, fix some minor things I mentioned before, and your forum will be improved.

    Thanks for reading, and I hope you liked the review.


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    [list]I’ve browsed through your forum using latest versions of three most-used Internet browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera, and haven’t found any major flaws or bugs, which is an important basis for every website/forum to start with. This is one of the forums which uses consistent colour pallete combined with contrast of colorful details, so stick to that when you create future layouts, too. I’m not very familiar with content and subject of your forum, but I can say that banners in the descriptions are stunning and attractive, as well as other graphic elements of the forum. Overall,  I have quite good first impressions about your forum, keep up the good work.[/list]
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    [list]The header is a combination of simplicity and creativity, and it kind of resembles the essence, soul of the entire forum – monumental buildings it’s stability, powerful character it’s strength. Simple navigation bar is very well used because it is contrast to colorful header above it. As I said before, banners in description of the forums and subforums are extraordinary, but the thing I don’t like are buttons. It’s good that they’re simple, but the shadow/stroke around the text is too strong. Feel free to reduce it’s opacity. As for the portal, it’s capacity is well used, content is well organized, nothing to improve about it. Also, for the sake of design and usability of your forum, you should try to make a rule that will restrain users from using big signatures (they extend forum’s loading time, and sometimes annoy users because they have to scroll too much for reading last posts).
    In general, graphics are quite good, and if you improve these things I said, you’ll improve quality and usability of your forum, too.
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    [quote]Our users have posted a total of 20713 messages
    We have 764 registered users[/quote]
    Such a big number of registered users, well done! But post number is quite low considering how many members does your forum have (And almost ½ of it makes posts of Administrators). You can improve it by finding new affiliates and exchange advertisting banner with them so more interested members see it, register, and start posting. You can also make some competition with catchy prized that will attract new users. The good thing about your activity is that the posts are almost even in all of forums/subforums – that’s a sign that existing members involve themselves in posting on entire forum equally, they don’t concentrate on a few only.
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    [list]I guess administrators of the forum are some kind of masters/rulers/kings of this Dueling Academy because there are 8 active ones. You surely agree that 8 admins for managing a forum is too many. If that’s some kind of Dueling organization, that’s okay. As for moderators, I can see only one, but considering number of admins, I guess his job doesn’t require that much of dedication. Other groups resemble game characters, so I won’t make any comment on them because I’m not familiar with this kind of forum topic. In general, if your forum requires this kind of organization, it’s fine. If, on the other hand, admins are there only because of managing technical aspects of the forum, you should exclude at least 4 of them from the group.
    [/list]
    [IMG]http://i39.tinypic.com/swg77c.png[/IMG]
    [list]I am sure that I’ve run across a few dueling forums before, but I have never seen one as unique as this. It contains some personal touch so people can recognize it easily, and I am sure that it’s quite well organized and neatly administrated, because it gives off some kind of professionalism.
    In conclusion, keep up the good work, form an advertising team that will help you with promoting your forum, fix some minor things I mentioned before, and your forum will be improved.

    [right][i]Thanks for reading, and I hope you liked the review.[/i][/right]

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3 Empire_1, on 02/02/2012 at 03h52
Your review has been proofread and marked "complete". This review has been accepted and will now be moved to completed requests. Wink
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