The Gaming Community 360 review

TGC HARDC0RE at 16h08
27
Feb
2011
Name of the Forum: The gaming community 360
Address: Http://www.tgc360.com
Area's you wish the reviewer to review: Full review
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1 Russel, on 28/02/2011 at 11h22
Tagged. Will be completed soon.

Edited: Review Complete


The gaming community 360



First Impressions - Rating: Good
    Cool! As in, I actually feel overwhelmed with content (that's a good thing!). There's nothing better than to have tons of stuff for your members to get involved in, and you certainly aren't lacking in that area. My initial reaction was that the page loaded pretty fast. The header caught my eye instantly and expressed the theme of the site from the outset.


Graphics & Layout - Rating: Average
    I found that your banner was very boring, it was very un imitative, it just sat there and it didn’t catch my eye at all and that is what you want a banner to do is catch the guests eye. In my opinion, your logo seems just fine and unique. It isn't to eccentric and matches the forum color scheme very well. ~ Rideem3 The logo is also very boring I would suggest that you change them. I am not a big fan of the colors of your forum it just makes the forum really boring and the skin is not great either. You should look for a skin with a bit more color, there are plenty of cool gaming skins out there so you just have to look for it. The Page and image sizes are fine and nothing out of the ordinary here. Now when I saw your forum I didn’t actually think it was a gaming forum because of the skin, but it was obvious that it was a gaming forum if you saw the boards. Also the banner could have been a bit better towards the whole gaming theme.



Forum Activity - Rating: Average
    In my honest opinion your forum doesn’t have a gaming feel or theme at all. In my opinion, your forum has a very nice feel of a gaming forum. Not a major gaming forum, but like the microsoft feel of the X-Box. Just focus on the categories and forums organization and your forum should gradually progress in activity. ~ Rideem3 The forum’s theme (gaming) doesn’t rise through the other forums that you have and in fact, theres less posts in the gaming forum than the others. No visible member list so I can’t give exact figures, from what I can see there are some active members defiantly room for more. Members here are keen to add their own avatars, signatures and customize their profile this is a good sign it shows people are here to stay not just make a post and leave. That post quality seems to be better than other gaming forums and the members seem to take more time in their posts and spell things out and write properly, and they have some good postcounts. Alot of the threads have only a few replies, again this can be encouraged by the team making a significant effort to prolong and deepen discussions by simply responding and asking more questions. But it is good to hear some good quality posts, although a lot of short sentence posts, post some debates to get people really thinking!


Staff & Usergroups - Rating: Good
    Lots of good active staff, good posters very active. Again I can’t see a members list so I can’t give exact numbers of staff. Staff should be clearly displayed so the users know who is boss around the site! And as i have seen, those colored staff are easily identifiable with their color usernames.


Originality & Unique Quality - Rating: Average
    So far, it is an awesome community and i think you have created your forum original. You have made your forum very well but more improvements to do. The main thing for you to really work on is the skin and the banner that is all what really turned your forum off for me and once you have fixed these problems your forum should start becoming a success. Though you have some slight flaws with your setup and how things are laid out, your forums have obviously been a great place to discuss (just about everything). Hopefully you'll take my recommendations into consideration, and see how they work out for you.

    Great work so far man, good luck!

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[list][font=Trebuchet MS][justify]Cool! As in, I actually feel overwhelmed with content (that's a good thing!). There's nothing better than to have tons of stuff for your members to get involved in, and you certainly aren't lacking in that area. My initial reaction was that the page loaded pretty fast. The header caught my eye instantly and expressed the theme of the site from the outset. [/justify][/font][/list]

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[list][font=Trebuchet MS][justify]I found that your banner was very boring, it was very un imitative, it just sat there and it didn’t catch my eye at all and that is what you want a banner to do is catch the guests eye. The logo is also very boring I would suggest that you change them. I am not a big fan of the colors of your forum it just makes the forum really boring and the skin is not great either. You should look for a skin with a bit more color, there are plenty of cool gaming skins out there so you just have to look for it. The Page and image sizes are fine and nothing out of the ordinary here. Now when I saw your forum I didn’t actually think it was a gaming forum because of the skin, but it was obvious that it was a gaming forum if you saw the boards. Also the banner could have been a bit better towards the whole gaming theme.[/justify]
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[list][font=Trebuchet MS][justify]In my honest opinion your forum doesn’t have a gaming feel or theme at all. The forum’s theme (gaming) doesn’t rise through the other forums that you have and in fact, theres less posts in the gaming forum than the others. No visible member list so I can’t give exact figures, from what I can see there are some active members defiantly room for more. Members here are keen to add their own avatars, signatures and customize their profile this is a good sign it shows people are here to stay not just make a post and leave. That post quality seems to be better than other gaming forums and the members seem to take more time in their posts and spell things out and write properly, and they have some good postcounts. Alot of the threads have only a few replies, again this can be encouraged by the team making a significant effort to prolong and deepen discussions by simply responding and asking more questions. But it is good to hear some good quality posts, although a lot of short sentence posts, post some debates to get people really thinking![/justify][/font][/list]

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[list][font=Trebuchet MS][justify]Lots of good active staff, good posters very active. Again I can’t see a members list so I can’t give exact numbers of staff. Staff should be clearly displayed so the users know who is boss around the site! And as i have seen, those colored staff are easily identifiable with their color usernames.[/justify][/font][/list]

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[list][font=Trebuchet MS][justify]So far, it is an awesome community and i think you have created your forum original. You have made your forum very well but more improvements to do. The main thing for you to really work on is the skin and the banner that is all what really turned your forum off for me and once you have fixed these problems your forum should start becoming a success. Though you have some slight flaws with your setup and how things are laid out, your forums have obviously been a great place to discuss (just about everything). Hopefully you'll take my recommendations into consideration, and see how they work out for you.

Great work so far man, good luck![/justify][/font][/list]
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My review is not meant in contradiction of the conclusion above about the forum being an accomplished one. I do not go into a forum deciding whether it is good or bad. My only goal is to make suggestions where I believe they may help, to inspire new ideas, and to give new perspectives. I certainly could have focused on giving a lot of flattering commentary, but I do not believe I would have been as productive.


Edited by Rideem3
2 Rideem3, on 02/03/2011 at 02h13
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