Bearville fun world request! (:

Jun

2011

Name of the Forum:Bearville fun world
Address:http://bearvillefunworld.forumotion.com
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Your Name on the board:Britallheart32

1 Drogba921, on 11/06/2011 at 15h05

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Bearville fun world

First Impressions - Rating: Average

When entering your forum (pulling it up in a new tab before entering) I noticed one thing right off the bat, "Free Forum". This makes your forum look so much more unprofessional than others, and if you remove it then it would look much better. I also highly recommend a favicon. You can find these at websites like: this one. Also, there's way too many colors going on in your forum, and I don't like how they all mix together. There's a multicolored dark background followed by a bright pink main container, and everything is written in Comic Sans too. I think you should sit down with your staff and have a serious talka bout the layout of your forum and what you can do to make it better.

Graphics & Layout - Rating: Poor

Having so many colors can come with a challenge because you will need to pick images that fit with all colors. I suggest for starters you get a different navigation bar so that it works in unison with the rest of your forum. From there I think you should get a different background so that it doesnt look as dark, and maybe, you could consider a new theme so that everything looks better over all. I highly reccommend also getting new post icons instead of the generic forumotion ones that come when you make your forum. Finally, yourr banner. I think that it needs to be much smaller in terms of height. Having a 500px high banner doesn't look appealing at all, and ot will probably take some activity away from the forum.

Forum Activity - Rating: Good

EIn total there are 3 users online :: 0 Registered, 0 Hidden and 3 Guests
Most users ever online was 15 on Sat Jan 08, 2011 4:34 am

Registered Users: None
Members connected during last 24 hours : <3Delfinkle<3, Blue, BlueIshHere!♥, Brit♥, Charlotte, Clare♥, FunnyJenny, Hannah, Jenny, Kaity♥, kallyleo11, MikaylaJanuary30, RainbowIshTaylor

No users have a birthday today
No users are having a birthday in the upcoming 7 days

I think that for a forum of your size, its doing well on activity. However, for only having 524 messages between all of these means that your members don't do alot of posts. Try to get that up higher and maybe you'll get a better rating next time. I think that if you work on some of the things in this reviwe then more people will end up wanting to join.

Staff & Usergroups - Rating: Poor

I couldn't see the insides of your groups, however from the outside there's way too many and they're all a jumble of colors. I think you can merge some togehter to make the amount of groups less. I highly reccommend that you use less bright colors since it hurts my eyes when I look at them.

Originality & Unique Quality - Rating: Average

I've seen several bearville forums whilst reviewing and I have to admit that yours isn't the best. If you choose a regular theme and don't customize it too much then it will look much better for the eyes than if you have a color scheme like yours is now. Many of your images will need to be changed to make your forum even more unique than what it is now. Good luck, and have fun foruming.

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2 Drogba921, on 12/06/2011 at 18h16

Review complete and moved to the official review archives.