Dalmation Music Forum

Jun

2010

Name of the Forum: Dalmation Music Forum
Address: http://dalmationmusic.forumotion.com/forum.htm
Area's you wish the reviewer to review: Design

1 Jophy, on 30/06/2010 at 02h56

The forum doesn't require for a 2 area review, Please re-read the guidelines and edit your request in 24 hours or this will be refused and locked.

Edit:

I'll do this on Friday Wink

2 Jophy, on 02/07/2010 at 13h29

Dalmation Music Forum

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Graphic Design & Layout

Graphics (Score: 5/20):
Banner:
Ok, let's start things of with the banner, ok, as soon as I first saw it, It came to my mind that it's a bit looking odd to the index appearance, since the forum has also blue colors, it doesn't fit there since red/maroon colors are kind of opposite or alternating colors, though the forum had some maroon.red colors too. however, it's looking unprofessional if you'll have one of your major graphics alternate to one of the forum's color so I would suggest you to neutralize it(not color blue or maroon/red) if you'll retain the forum's color scheme, I would suggest more about that later, to describe more about the banner, i think it looks good, however, it's a bit plain without any further designs seen there, only fonts, but I would describe the fonts good and not really simple, so I think that's nice, I already said about the color of the banner above, I really think there's something needs to be changed with the forum's color scheme for a banner to fit out to the forum.(1/5)

Navigation Bar:
The navigation bars you have on the index are default one's or the texts only with icons beside it, though i would suggest you to get a more appropriate navigation bar that would fit to the forum's color scheme since you had some mixing colors on the forum, or just remove the icons beside it since it doesn't really fit out with the forum's color scheme, I didn't liked it that much.(1/5)

Forum Icons & 'Who is Online?' icon
So let's start up with the images you have on the forums, most of them are not transparent or having white backgrounds on the images, I suggest you to remove those white background since it doesn't really look good and looks unprofessional even for a musical forum, so get that fixed, I would also suggest you to have the images on every forums have same sizes, it looks unprofessional, most of them have same sizes though but some look indifferent with their size, get that fixed, another thing is atleast to put images also on some forums that doesn't have, well it looks that the index look under construction with some forums having images while some have none, so it looks incomplete, remove them unless you have images for other forums, it'll look better, you have no who is online icon but it's always better to have one.(3/5)
Forum Layout & Colors (Score: 3/10):
I was really confused what was the true/main colors of the forum when I entered the forum since the colors you have on the forum are altering/opposite as I'd mentioned above(maroon and blue), they look odd if you combine them together, so I would suggest you to stick on 1 type of color, but I prefer blue and white colors on the forum, I suggest you to fix the colors immideatly and once you fixed those, get updated with your banner.

Graphic Design & Layout total :: 8/30

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3 techguy1001, on 03/07/2010 at 00h44

Woah okay it sounds really bad. I'm still not too good with the whole color scheme thing but I'm working on it

4 Jophy, on 03/07/2010 at 02h26

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