Lancashire Street Cars - Car Club uk

May

2010

Name of the Forum: Lancashire Street Cars
Address: http://www.lancashirestreetcars.findtalk.biz
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1 Jophy, on 13/05/2010 at 03h03

Tagged, I'll get this completed in 48 hours or less Wink

2 Jophy, on 14/05/2010 at 10h46

Lancashire Street Cars

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Generalities

First Impressions (Score: 13/20):
So for my first impression about the forum name, I guess it's obvious that this is a forum about cars and other more informations related to it.. so I guess you had a nice name for your forum, it's very specific for me and it would be easy for the members to think what the forum is all about, ok, when I entered your homepage, I saw it's a dark homepage, I think it's nice, I'm seeing lots of informations, messages about the forum there which is really a nice way to inform members about the forum along with the images, the navigation links found at the left portion is also a nice idea, I don't see any problem there, about the negative parts of the homepage, I saw a huge blank space at the bottom of the forum which is not looking nice, I would suggest you to resize the bottom of the homepage, It'll look better.. Now when i came up on the index, I saw light colors, very different from the homepage, I thought that I'd been directed to random forum because the homepage and the forum has different colors, I think it's not a good idea to have different colors from the forum and homepage, It'll look that you've been redirected to other random forum which is not nice, so I suggest you to stick on 1 color only(both to homepage and forum), trust me, It'll look better and professional, so I think the index is neat with the light colors, but looks plain with simple graphics of the forum such as the banner, icons etc... I suggest you to fix the things I mentioned here.
Categories & Forums (Score: 5/10):
I think overall you had nice amount and sets of forums you had on the index, they're all fitting for the main purpose of the forum, so I think they're nice, to the organization of the categories and forums, I think there are something wrong with it and looks unprofessional, I suggest you to place the introduction forum on the 1st category, it'll look better and professional there, second, the 'lounge' forum should be placed at the bottom part of the forum as it is the off-topic forum, forums that are relating to the subject of the forum such as 'cars' should be placed at the 2nd category, you should separate the 'lounge' forum to the important categories of the forum, now to the appearance of the categories and forums, I think it's also looking odd to have a category with only 1 forum on it, looks unprofessional, if you're gonna create a category, it should have atleast 2 forums or more with it, you can connect those forums to some important categories on the index than having them on a category, It'll look better if you'll be fix the things I mentioned.

Generalities total :: 18/30

Graphic Design & Layout

Graphics (Score: 5/20):
Banner:
So as I'd mentioned above from the first impression part, you had a very very simple banner, even though it's edited from the default banner, I don't see any effort on it, I only saw fonts on the left portion of the banner, I didn't saw any designs on other parts of the banner, It'll be better if you'll have a newly made banner not the edited default one's, it would attract more guests on the forum, make sure to partner the colors to the forum if you'll have a new one.(1/5)

Navigation Bar:
The navigation bars you have on the index are the default ones, it looks good if you'll also have the default icons/images etc on the forum but it'll look better if you'll have created ones rather than the default ones, It's always better if you have created ones than the default ones.(2/5)

Forum Icons & 'Who Is Online?' Image
So for the graphics of the forum, as I'd said, I think all of them are default ones of the theme you've chosen, They're looking nice and simple but as I always mentioned, it's better to have created ones than the default ones, I think all of the graphics on the forum are default, I guess you should have the created ones, it's better.(2/10)
Forum Layout & Colors (Score: 5/10):
The colors you have on the homepage are dark ones, i think the homepage looks nice even with dark colors, now, the colors on the index are light ones, which includes blue and white colors, but as I'd mentioned above from the first impression, it looks odd to see the homepage and the index with 2 different type of colors(light and dark), it'll look better if you'll stick to one type of color, I prefer you stick on light color both to your homepage and index, it'll look better and professional, the colors on the index are neat and nice, I guess you should get this part fixed.

Graphic Design & Layout total :: 10/30

Usergroups

Population of Groups (Score: 10/10):
I'd counted a total of 3 staff members on the forum, 1 on the administration, 1 on the moderators and 1 on the event organizers, i think that's a nice amount of staff for the activity of the forum for now, I don't see anything wrong here, since the activity of the forum is small, I don't think you need to hire more moderation staffs, it's the right amount for now. Nice job here.
Staff Groups / User Groups (Score: 10/10):
In total, you had 5 user groups, which includes the administration, moderation, event organizers, models and members group, i think that's also a nice amount and set of groups you have, not too many and it's perfect for the forum's size, the colors of the groups are also fine, i don't see anything wrong here. nice work.

Usergroups :: 20/20

Forum Activity

Post/Member Ratio & Quantity (Score: 3/10):

Our users have posted a total of 1194 messages
We have 113 registered users
The newest registered user is Duude

The number of total messages on the forum for 113 members is considered to be low for this kind of populated forum, so this only shows that the forum is low or loosing activity, I suggest you to keep posting interesting topics/posts to keep the members from coming back.
Users Active (Score: 4/10):

Members connected during last 35 hours : Bedworth, dando, Dturbo90, gtiturbo, millers, reviewer

Out of 113 members, the number of members logging in each 35 hours is also considered low, as i'd suggested above, keep creating topics or have some contests to keep them from coming back, send out newsletters to get the inactive members back from the forum.

Forum Activity total :: 7/20

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Now when i came up on the index, I saw light colors, very different from the homepage, I thought that I'd been directed to random forum because the homepage and the forum has different colors, I think it's not a good idea to have different colors from the forum and homepage, It'll look that you've been redirected to other random forum which is not nice, so I suggest you to stick on 1 color only(both to homepage and forum), trust me, It'll look better and professional, so I think the index is neat with the light colors, but looks plain with simple graphics of the forum such as the banner, icons etc... I suggest you to fix the things I mentioned here. [*][b]Categories & Forums (Score: 5/10):[/b] I think overall you had nice amount and sets of forums you had on the index, they're all fitting for the main purpose of the forum, so I think they're nice, to the organization of the categories and forums, I think there are something wrong with it and looks unprofessional, I suggest you to place the introduction forum on the 1st category, it'll look better and professional there, second, the 'lounge' forum should be placed at the bottom part of the forum as it is the off-topic forum, forums that are relating to the subject of the forum such as 'cars' should be placed at the 2nd category, you should separate the 'lounge' forum to the important categories of the forum, now to the appearance of the categories and forums, I think it's also looking odd to have a category with only 1 forum on it, looks unprofessional, if you're gonna create a category, it should have atleast 2 forums or more with it, you can connect those forums to some important categories on the index than having them on a category, It'll look better if you'll be fix the things I mentioned. 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Image[/b][/u][/size] So for the graphics of the forum, as I'd said, I think all of them are default ones of the theme you've chosen, They're looking nice and simple but as I always mentioned, it's better to have created ones than the default ones, I think all of the graphics on the forum are default, I guess you should have the created ones, it's better.(2/10) [*][b]Forum Layout & Colors (Score: 5/10):[/b] The colors you have on the homepage are dark ones, i think the homepage looks nice even with dark colors, now, the colors on the index are light ones, which includes blue and white colors, but as I'd mentioned above from the first impression, it looks odd to see the homepage and the index with 2 different type of colors(light and dark), it'll look better if you'll stick to one type of color, I prefer you stick on light color both to your homepage and index, it'll look better and professional, the colors on the index are neat and nice, I guess you should get this part fixed. 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[*][b]Staff Groups / User Groups (Score: 10/10):[/b] In total, you had 5 user groups, which includes the administration, moderation, event organizers, models and members group, i think that's also a nice amount and set of groups you have, not too many and it's perfect for the forum's size, the colors of the groups are also fine, i don't see anything wrong here. nice work. 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[*][b]Users Active (Score: 4/10):[/b] [quote]Members connected during last 35 hours : Bedworth, dando, Dturbo90, gtiturbo, millers, reviewer[/quote] Out of 113 members, the number of members logging in each 35 hours is also considered low, as i'd suggested above, keep creating topics or have some contests to keep them from coming back, send out newsletters to get the inactive members back from the forum. [/list] [color=orange]Forum Activity total :: 7/20[/color]

3 Jophy, on 15/05/2010 at 16h18

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