Toxic Shock Gaming Full Rieview

Nov

2009

Name of the Forum: Toxic Shock Gaming
Address: toxic-shock.forumotion.net
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1 Jophy, on 20/11/2009 at 10h15

*TAGGED* , if you don't mind, i can complete this review within 24 hours.

2 XPLOSIV3, on 20/11/2009 at 10h19

No problem, Thank you very much.

3 Jophy, on 21/11/2009 at 03h31

Toxic Shock Gaming

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Generalities

First Impressions (Score:15/20):Well i must say this is a good gaming forum, i liked the name of it, now let's head on with your forum's review. When i first opened the link, i saw a 'greenie' atmosphere and it's a little bit calming on the forum, it's not that exhausting when i came up on your forum. The portal looks good, everything seems to be organized and placed well and informative, seeing that there is welcome and agreement message on column2(middle) widget of your portal and that's good, but i just don't get why you have CAPSLOCKED sentence on the scrolling message at the top widget, it seems that you're shouting to your members and guests but i think it's an important note to members and guests but I'll atleast try to remove the CAPSLOCKED letters there but it's up to you. Now, hen i came up on your index, i saw that the forum is mushed at the middle, try having only 1 widget on your index instead of having 2, it makes your forum grinded/mushed at the middle, the chatbox makes the index more mushed, try placing the chatbox at the bottom besides i think it's inactive, so placing on it at the bottom will be more advisable, i must really say it's confusing to move around on the index with lots of widget on it. Nice colors but you'll just need to reduce atleast 1 widget on your widget on the index.
Categories & Forums (Score:7/10):There are nice amount of forums on your index relevant to the activity of your forum but the number of categories is considered many, there are categories having only 1 forum with them, may i suggest you to merge some forums in 1 category than having 1 forum for some categories, try combining the forums namely: 'Arcade' & 'Your Graphics' in 1 category because it looks odd having 1 forum only in a category and makes the index long, try also placing the category 'TSG News & Announcements' on the 1st portion than on the 2nd portion so members and guests can find it more easily because this category contains the news about your forum and placing it at the 1st portion will be more advisable and will look more professional. Meanwhile, this are the forums that had been left dusted: 'PC Recruitment', 'World at War', 'Tomahawk HC Squadron', 'RenegadeSquadron', and 'Arcade', and these is the forum that is not having any posts 'Desert Strike Squadron', well for now, maybe try hiding or making them a subforum of a certain forum unless they gain more posts so you can attract more guests but i liked the set of your forum, most of them are related to gaming, nice work though.

Generalities total :: 22/30

Forum Style

Major Graphics (Score: 10/10):
Banner-The banner looks good, the colors partners with the colors of your forum and it gives emphasis to the forum's main subject, maybe try extending it's width a little more and it will look good, nice work on the banner(5/5)

Navigation Bar-The navigation bars are also good, the colors partners with the banner but i cannot read the text below the main name of the navigation bar, it seems fading and i can't read it clearly, either you make it clearer or just remove it, i also like the 'greenie' and the red thing on the bottom part of the navigation bars, i liked how they are glowing, the other navigation bars are fine, nice work on the major graphics(5/5)
Forum Layout & Color Scheme (Score: 10/10):The colors of your forum which are black and green looks good with the subject of your forum, having green makes your forum clean and adds a calming effect on the index and portal, the colors are also smooth, nice work with the colors.
Images & Icons (Score:10/10):The other images are also good, the 'Who is Online?' icon looks good but the size of it is big, it almost got the half the size of the who's online widget, try reducing the size of it and it will look good besides i also liked it, it relates with the forum's main subject. No problem with the topic icons. The forum icons namely 'new pots', 'no new post' and 'forum is locked' are also good, nothing wrong with them and they're easy to be noticed, nice work. The index looks nice even though the forums are not having any images. Nice work here

Forum Style total :: 30/30

Usergroups

Population of Groups (Score:8/10):Hmm, don't know who are the admins and the moderators of the forum but as far as i've known, the Generals are the admin so I've counted 7 of the admins, they're too many for a forum having only 167 members, try reducing, maximum is 3, just saying to you that guests don't like seeing a forum having too many admins, they will mostly go away and sometimes being scared with too many admins leading and making decisions on the forum, so my suggestion here is as much as possible, reduce the number of admins, didn't saw a moderator group, maybe try moving some admins on these group but it's up too you. But because you didn't have a mod group, then the number of admins is just fine but atleast try having a moderator group moving some admins there.
Staff Groups / User Groups (Score:8/10):You have nice amount of usergroups but it's advisable to have a moderator group, i also don't know the use of the "Guest" group, but nice work on your groups!

Usergroups :: 16/20

Forum Activity

Post/Member Ratio & Quantity (Score: 6/10):

Our users have posted a total of 2397 messages
We have 166 registered users
The newest registered user is huyvovo

I'd seen that the forum is active but the posts are less, if i were to estimate the posts of a forum having 166 members, you should have atleast 3000 right now, I'd seen new posts were made while I'm reviewing your forum, nice work, if i were to divide the posts to the number of members, each members will get 14 posts, nice work. Keep posting!
Users Active (Score: 10/10):

Members connected during last 24 hours : A4-97, AchingImp, andan06, borntokilljay, brucemoore, CG HyPeRSnIpEr, Checksixx, CHUCK NORRIS, DankSK, ender105, FSUnoles330, ftorreslfc, HiddenFire, huyvovo, iTz ADAM, Jacques591, JAMIETSG, Jbaggley, JStrain, KILL3R, kuntraz0r, Laiceran, litesage14, Love Lea, lxlcabotlxl, Lycan187, Mastersticker, naid, Nathshock, Nemesis1908, NINJACARPENTER, No2riousKilla, nomadian, nsane8511, oBETTYo, oGUNNARo, PPSOswat, ragdollheartx, ranger375, rangers1921, reviewer, rostikillyou, russong, sammy456, shagg909, shrek300, SnP_Skulls, southernbelle07, staypuft3035, ubermensch, Vivacious Vixon, VRTX Edmard, XD_shooter, xFiiNESSE, xMidnight Hour, xSOViiET, xVincentx26, xX_RaDiC_Xx

Wow! The number of users above out of 166 users are many to be considered, nice work, these means that your members go back for more on your forum, as I've mentioned above, there are lots of users being active regardless of the posting activity, there are 18 users being most online, nice work, Send out weekly newsletters about the latest updates on your forum to get the inactive members back

Forum Activity total :: 16/20

Overall Marking: 84/100
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What could be done to improve your forum:
Follow what i suggested above
The best thing I like about your forum:
The major graphics of the forum

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The portal looks good, everything seems to be organized and placed well and informative, seeing that there is welcome and agreement message on column2(middle) widget of your portal and that's good, but i just don't get why you have CAPSLOCKED sentence on the scrolling message at the top widget, it seems that you're shouting to your members and guests but i think it's an important note to members and guests but I'll atleast try to remove the CAPSLOCKED letters there but it's up to you. Now, hen i came up on your index, i saw that the forum is mushed at the middle, try having only 1 widget on your index instead of having 2, it makes your forum grinded/mushed at the middle, the chatbox makes the index more mushed, try placing the chatbox at the bottom besides i think it's inactive, so placing on it at the bottom will be more advisable, i must really say it's confusing to move around on the index with lots of widget on it. Nice colors but you'll just need to reduce atleast 1 widget on your widget on the index. [*][b]Categories & Forums (Score:7/10):[/b]There are nice amount of forums on your index relevant to the activity of your forum but the number of categories is considered many, there are categories having only 1 forum with them, may i suggest you to merge some forums in 1 category than having 1 forum for some categories, try combining the forums namely: 'Arcade' & 'Your Graphics' in 1 category because it looks odd having 1 forum only in a category and makes the index long, try also placing the category 'TSG News & Announcements' on the 1st portion than on the 2nd portion so members and guests can find it more easily because this category contains the news about your forum and placing it at the 1st portion will be more advisable and will look more professional. Meanwhile, this are the forums that had been left dusted: 'PC Recruitment', 'World at War', 'Tomahawk HC Squadron', 'RenegadeSquadron', and 'Arcade', and these is the forum that is not having any posts 'Desert Strike Squadron', well for now, maybe try hiding or making them a subforum of a certain forum unless they gain more posts so you can attract more guests but i liked the set of your forum, most of them are related to gaming, nice work though. 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[*][b]Images & Icons (Score:10/10):[/b]The other images are also good, the 'Who is Online?' icon looks good but the size of it is big, it almost got the half the size of the who's online widget, try reducing the size of it and it will look good besides i also liked it, it relates with the forum's main subject. No problem with the topic icons. The forum icons namely 'new pots', 'no new post' and 'forum is locked' are also good, nothing wrong with them and they're easy to be noticed, nice work. The index looks nice even though the forums are not having any images. Nice work here [/list] [color=darkred]Forum Style total :: 30/30[/color] [hr] [img]http://i87.servimg.com/u/f87/13/67/77/07/usergr10.png[/img] [b][color=teal][size=19]Usergroups[/size][/b][/color] [list=1][*][b]Population of Groups (Score:8/10):[/b]Hmm, don't know who are the admins and the moderators of the forum but as far as i've known, the Generals are the admin so I've counted 7 of the admins, they're too many for a forum having only 167 members, try reducing, maximum is 3, just saying to you that guests don't like seeing a forum having too many admins, they will mostly go away and sometimes being scared with too many admins leading and making decisions on the forum, so my suggestion here is as much as possible, reduce the number of admins, didn't saw a moderator group, maybe try moving some admins on these group but it's up too you. But because you didn't have a mod group, then the number of admins is just fine but atleast try having a moderator group moving some admins there. [*][b]Staff Groups / User Groups (Score:8/10):[/b]You have nice amount of usergroups but it's advisable to have a moderator group, i also don't know the use of the "Guest" group, but nice work on your groups! [/list] [color=teal]Usergroups :: 16/20[/color] [hr] [img]http://i87.servimg.com/u/f87/13/67/77/07/foruma30.png[/img] [b][color=orange][size=19]Forum Activity[/b][/color][/size] [list=1][*][b]Post/Member Ratio & Quantity (Score: 6/10):[/b] [quote]Our users have posted a total of 2397 messages We have 166 registered users The newest registered user is huyvovo[/quote] I'd seen that the forum is active but the posts are less, if i were to estimate the posts of a forum having 166 members, you should have atleast 3000 right now, I'd seen new posts were made while I'm reviewing your forum, nice work, if i were to divide the posts to the number of members, each members will get 14 posts, nice work. Keep posting! :) [*][b]Users Active (Score: 10/10):[/b] [quote]Members connected during last 24 hours : A4-97, AchingImp, andan06, borntokilljay, brucemoore, CG HyPeRSnIpEr, Checksixx, CHUCK NORRIS, DankSK, ender105, FSUnoles330, ftorreslfc, HiddenFire, huyvovo, iTz ADAM, Jacques591, JAMIETSG, Jbaggley, JStrain, KILL3R, kuntraz0r, Laiceran, litesage14, Love Lea, lxlcabotlxl, Lycan187, Mastersticker, naid, Nathshock, Nemesis1908, NINJACARPENTER, No2riousKilla, nomadian, nsane8511, oBETTYo, oGUNNARo, PPSOswat, ragdollheartx, ranger375, rangers1921, reviewer, rostikillyou, russong, sammy456, shagg909, shrek300, SnP_Skulls, southernbelle07, staypuft3035, ubermensch, Vivacious Vixon, VRTX Edmard, XD_shooter, xFiiNESSE, xMidnight Hour, xSOViiET, xVincentx26, xX_RaDiC_Xx[/quote] Wow! The number of users above out of 166 users are many to be considered, nice work, these means that your members go back for more on your forum, as I've mentioned above, there are lots of users being active regardless of the posting activity, there are 18 users being most online, nice work, Send out weekly newsletters about the latest updates on your forum to get the inactive members back [/list] [color=orange]Forum Activity total :: 16/20[/color] [hr] [center][img]http://i87.servimg.com/u/f87/13/67/77/07/yourov10.png[/img] [b][color=turqoise][size=20]Overall Marking: 84/100[/size][/color][/b] [size=24][b][color=limegreen]You have passed![/color][/b][/size][/center] [hr] [center][img]http://i87.servimg.com/u/f87/13/67/77/07/conclu10.png[/img][/center] [b][color=teal][size=14]What could be done to improve your forum:[/b][/size][/color] Follow what i suggested above [b][color=teal][size=14]The best thing I like about your forum:[/b][/size][/color] The major graphics of the forum [hr]

4 Jophy, on 22/11/2009 at 02h17

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