Review for Bearville Place please!

Nov

2010

Name of the Forum: Bearville Place
Address: www.bearvilleplace.com
Area's you wish the reviewer to review: Full review? Smile

Your Name on the board: TestAwesome!

Thanks!

1 Jophy, on 15/11/2010 at 14h21

Ok, I'll get this Wink

2 TestAwesome!, on 15/11/2010 at 18h53

Thank you

3 Jophy, on 17/11/2010 at 03h55

Bearville Place

First Impressions - Rating: Average

By the time I came to the forum, I had the first impression that the forum is different from the other bearville forums that I reviewed because of the designs/theme & layout on the forum, and to be specific that they are Christmas related designs which is good and looking unique for other bearville forums, it feels good that you can feel the Christmas sensation when you're looking at the forum, the snow makes a good effect, but I must say that they are complex combination of designs because of the big graphics you have like the banner, may look good & bad for some instance too so I'll rate the design of the forum as average, the organization of the forum looks good except for your homepage message that ruins the index a bit, I can see large fonts there and makes the index long too, so I suggest you to make the fonts of the messages there smaller so you can shorten the index a little bit.

Graphics & Layout -Rating: Poor

Forum Activity - Rating: Good

From the index view, I can see that the forum has an average to good rating for its posting activity on its forums, most forums had new posts while some also had no new posts, most of the forums have plenty amount of posts which is good, the total amount of messages on the forum is brilliant too for 259 members only which is quite impressive so nice work, the amount of members that logged within 48 hours is excellent too, so nice work overall with your activity.

Staff & Usergroups - Rating: Average

In total, you have 9 groups on your forum, I think all of theme benefit on your forum, so I think I don't see anything wrong here, except for the color of some groups, make sure to darken the colors of groups having light colors, such as the group 'Graphic Artist teddy', try changing it so it makes it readable. The number of staff(Admins, mods etc.) seems to be fine too.

Originality & Unique Quality - Rating: Good

As I'd mentioned from my first impression, the forum looks quite unique from other bearville forums that I reviewed since you had a Christmas theme for now, the graphics are a little bit unique too, some of the group names are quite unique too.

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4 Jophy, on 18/11/2010 at 11h11

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