Animal Crossing Forums

Aug

2011

Name of the Forum: Animal Crossing Forums

Address: http://animalcrossingforums.motionsforum.com/

Area's you wish the reviewer to review: General, Design/Theme & Lay out

Your Name on the board: Superpie

1 Rok, on 06/08/2011 at 20h21

Animal Crossing Forums

I'm going to be completely straight-up. The design on your forum is terrible. I'm not saying that to hurt your feelings. It looks as if a 10-year-old created the theme. Also, it seems that the banner image on the forum is copyright by Nintendo (it's obviously stated at the bottom-right of the image.) The design altogether doesn't look fitting at all. I'd like to suggest that you browse around for a new theme- something that looks decent and fitting for a forum about Animal Crossing. The layout also needs some work; there are no borders nor unique qualities to it. It looks like someone slapped a a bunch of white boxes and rectangles onto a nasty-looking green color. There is a lot of work that definitely needs to be done for both the graphics and the layout of your forum. I also recommend that you change the black font color once you find a new theme. One more thing that I would like to mention... the category header background images look like a bunch of green Doritos. They would look cool if it was something like grass.

Just by scrolling down the forum index and glancing at the latest posts, I understand that the forum has a somewhat active community. However, in my opinion, all forums should have new posts in each of the sections everyday. Your forum has some sections that had posts in over a month. You definitely need to start getting your members posting, as well as advertising your forum anywhere that you possibly can. I also see a couple of sections that have not even one post. Make more topics around the forum. It seems as if you and your administrator are the only ones that actually even both to post, but barely. Like I've mentioned, get your community active. Do anything that you can to get more people making posts and topics on your forum. Posting contests can be very helpful, but only if you have an active community, so that may not would work out for you. What I would recommend is that you just keep making new topics and posts. Also, this may sound a bit cheesy, but even creating fake accounts and posting around on your forum can help make your forum look somewhat active. Usually, forums with domains are the ones that actually have potential in succeeding; so if you are commited to having a successful forum with an active community, then you should purchase a domain name. Any website or forum generally looks good with a domain name anyway. Search for some other Animal Crossing forums and ask them if they would want to affiliate with your forum considering that it's the same niche.

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2 Drogba921, on 07/08/2011 at 19h12

Review complete and moved to the official review archives.