iWebBuddy's Forum Review - Allawesomeness.omgforum.net ( Part 3 )

**Marc** · by **Marc** on Sat Jan 16, 2010 2:44 pm

iWebBuddy's Forum Review - Allawesomeness.omgforum.net

Graphics :

Logo :
Although the background of the forum and the logo are very colorful and bright, the logo is still not that much attractive when used as the forum's logo.

A space type logo would be better because that type of logo will match the forum's background better than a paint splash logo. Or, the background can be changed to a paint splash background so it can match with the logo, but I don't suggest doing that unless using higher definition graphics.

Marks - 4/10

Forum's Template :
The forum's tables matches great with the background. The design is simple, but it also takes time for the page to load even when using a fast speed Internet connection.

The ShoutBox widget is a little too wide and touching the forums. That can be a problem. I would suggest reducing its width.

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I like the icons used on the forum to describe which forum is which.

My only problem is that I don't like the icon used for the 'General Discussion' forum.

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It looks more like a notifying icon more than a general discussion icon. This is because there is a yellow warning sign on the top of the bubble quotes.

Marks - 15/20

Overall Marks For Graphics = 19/30

Content :

Main Content :
This is good enought content for a general discussion forum.

In the arcade, I suggest using viewable text at the bottom of the web page. At the moment, the text color is black, and mixed in with the background, the text is very hard to view unless highlighted.

I don't see the point in having two sub-forums where members can do almost the same things...

The 'Adoptables' sub-forum under the "Linkz" forum is the same as the 'Exchanges' forum.

The description of the 'Exchanges' forum says :

"Exchange Posts, Registration, or even Dragon cave clicks with other members"

And, why have another forum ( Adoptables ) where members can do the same thing?

Marks - 29/40

Organisation :
I already talked about the 'Adoptables' and 'Exchanges' forum issue already.

In the 'Linkz' forum, if there are different sub-forums for different links. I those extra sub-forums were added for certain types of links, then I suggest adding more.

Because, the 'Social Networks and Other' sub-forum can fall in to this group, 'Forum And Website', because a social network site is a website.

All of the other categories and forums looks find to me.

Marks - 7/10

Overall Marks For Content = 36/50

Activity :

BackLinks :
Seeing that the url has a page rank 1 and after doing a quick search for this forum, I noticed that there are a lot of backlinks.

Backlinks are what spreads the word about a site, and with more, the site will be notice and google will raise the site's page rank.

So, I would suggest submitting this link to high PR link directories to get more traffic and a higher page rank.

=> Free Link Directory - Submit A URL

Marks - 12/15

Forum Activity :
The forum activity looks fine to me. Keep promoting and you'll get a lot of traffic.

Marks - 5/5

Overall Marks For Activity = 17/20

Overall Marks For Allawesomeness.omgforum.net = 72%

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