The Automotive India

First Impression (7/10)

• Aestheticism (3/5): When I first visited your forum, I liked the fresh clean theme used (+1). Despite the fact that I liked the theme, I think that your index is too long (-1). Something very good in "The Automotive India" are the links and the text above the categories of the forum: "Find all latest automotive discussions on "The Automotive India" forums...." (+1). I think that the buttons which are related to driving (navigation bar etc.) match very good with the content of the forum (+1). Your index is too wide and a bit exhausting (-1).
  Suggestions: You may want to reduce the lenght of the index. Keep the forums about driving and turn some forums into subforums. Also, you may want to reduce the width of the index (from 100% to 85-90%).
  
• Activity (4/5): All the forums have posts on them (+1). In some of the forums, the latest post was written today (+1). There are more than 10,000 posts (+1). There are more than 300 posts (+1). No one was online while I was exploring your forum (-1).
  Suggestions: Persuade the members to be online more time.

Graphics (8/10)

• Banner, Buttons, Ranks etc. (3/5): Your banner fits nicely with the content and the style of the forum (+1), but it should be transparent and the quality of the text on it is very low (-1). I liked the navigation buttons, they are very nice and unique (+1). I liked the "New Posts", "No New Posts" etc. buttons because they match with driving (+1), but their quality is not very good (-1).
  Suggestions: Make the banner better by making it trasparent and increasing the quality of the text on it. Keep the navigation bar. About the "New Posts", "No New Posts", "Locked" etc. buttons, you may leave them as they are, or you may make or request some other in the same style, but with better quality.
  
• Colours (5/5): The colors are good and not exhausting (+1). The background is light grey to white and the text color is black, a simple combination (+1). I liked the red headers and the red colour where was (+1). There aren't many different colours (+1) and the colours in the theme match perfectly with the buttons and the forum (+1).
  Suggestions: -

Members – Activity – Staff (10/15)

• Members (2/5): There are more than 300 members (+1). 2/3 of the members have never posted (-1). No one was online when I came, no one registered and no one was in the chatbox (-1). Some members logged in after several minutes (+1). 1/3 of the members have never logged in (-1).
  Suggestions: Don't let the members register or log in and then leave without posting. Make them interested in the forum, pm them, start discussions in the chatbox, invite them to post in the topics etc. Persuade them to be more time online and visit the forum many times a day.
  
• Activity (3/5): There were guests while I was online (+1). The "Today's active topics" list contains more than 35 topics from many different forums and posted by many different members (+1). Only 9 of the 330 members posted today (-1). The posts per member ratio is 30.8, it's OK (+1). No new posts were written while I was online (-1).
  Suggestions: Persuade members to be more active and post more.
  
• Staff (5/5): The staff is active (+1). The administrator (Vibhor) was active when he came online (+1) and he has more than 2000 posts (+1). The moderators have many posts (+1) and it's seems that they care for the forum (+1).
  Suggestions: -

Advantages:

• Clean fresh theme
  
• Nice navigation buttons
  
• Many guests
  
• Many posts
  
• Many members

Disadvantages:

• Long index
  
• 2/3 of the members have never posted
  
• 1/3 of the members have never logged in
  
• Very wide index
  
• Only 9 of the 330 members have posted today

Final Score: 25/35 or 14.2/20

Some suggestions/ways to make your more forum successful:

Advertising/Promoting:

• You don't need anything here, there are many guests and visitors in your forum.

Activity:

• You should increase the activity by organising some activities:
  
  • Interesting topics
    
  • Contests - Competitions
    
  • Discussions in the Chatbox
    
  • Games

Graphics:

• You can ask for graphics here and you can search our great gallery here!

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