My first attempt at a forum

Jun

2010

Extreme Alternate Universe A roleplaying and fanfiction fan forum.
http://exalternateuniverse.omgforum.net/index.htm One Area Review: 30 Messages with 15 Users.
Area's you wish the reviewer to review:I would like thoughts and suggestions on my design. How it looks and the impression it gives a first time visitor. Thanks This is the first time I have tried to put together a website of any kind so all reviews will be helpful.

1 Jophy, on 11/06/2010 at 13h12

Extreme Alternate Universe

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Graphic Design & Layout

Graphics (Score: 4/20):
Banner:
Ok let's start things up with the banner, Ok, as soon as I saw it when i entered the the forum, the forum looked really for girls only considering the colors and pictures on the banner, so if this forum is for girls only, I must really say that it's looking good for the forum! The pictures there are girls specifying that it's a girl forum to inform guests and it's a nice image for a role playing forums, if I'm not mistaken, those are artists, so that's nice, the font used is also good but looks really simple however it's nice that I see an animation on it, the background is what looks different from the banner, it looks blurred at all, the banner doesn't look good with that background, It could have been better if you'll have a more complicated background on it for the forum and not like blurred ones, so I suggest you to modify it and change it's background, but from what I'm saying above that this is only for girls, if this is also for boys, I might suggest you to add some male persons on the banner and add some more colors so guests would know that they can also join the forum, that's advisable for a role playing forum so I guess get those things sorted up.(1.5/5)

Navigation Bar:
Ok, As a guest, I can only see some of the navigation bars(forum, search, sign up & be a star and log in), I really think that their colors are nice for the forum and partners along with the banner and forum's color scheme, that's really a nice partner of colors on the forum, but some negative things I noticed on this navigation bars are they're having different colors, forum and search navigation bars have violet colors while sign up and log in navigation bars has purple colors, doesn't seem to look good, I would suggest you to stick one color when it comes to the navigation bars, it's considered one of the major graphics of the forum and it's one of the main attraction of the forum, so I suggest you to stick on 1 color, it'll looks better and professional, I might consider them also too big in size, in comes on it's width, they are really big oval, I suggest you to reduce it's size, doesn't look good with that size and it doesn't really needed to be that big so making it more smaller is nicer, I suggest you to get those things sorted.(1.5/5)

Forum Icons:
The forum icons you have (new post, no new post and forum is locked) are kinda nice for the look and color scheme of the forum, however, one thing i also noticed here is they all have different sizes which really looks odd, I don't agree with their sizes, I would suggest you to stick on 1 size, I would go for the circle one like the 'no new post' icon has, it'll be better if you have those sizes on the icons, other wise make them different from each other if you'll gonna have new forum icons, ok that's the only minor graphics I saw on the forum, I think it'll be better if you'll add some images on the forums, it'll look more interesting. (1/5)

'Who Is Online?' Image
The icon you have here is small and kinda simple for me, although it looks alien for me, I don't really think it relates to the forum, how does alien relate to a roleplaying forum? So I suggest you to get a more interesting icon here so it'll look more professional(1/5)
Forum Layout & Colors (Score: 4/10):
The color scheme you have on the entire forum are mainly pink and black which definitely looks a forum for girls only as I'd mentioned above, as I also suggested above, if you're gonna have this forum for boys also, I suggest you to get rid of the pink colors on the forum, it might be better, also, I don't think the background is nice, it looks like mixed paint, for me doesn't really look nice, it just looks excess colors for the forum.

Graphic Design & Layout total :: 8/30

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2 jennielyne, on 11/06/2010 at 14h05

Thank you. This helps so much.

3 Jophy, on 11/06/2010 at 14h09

Your Welcome, Hope this review helps you improve your forum Smile

I'll now lock and mark this as completed, will be sent to the archives in the next 12 hours.