Si vis amari, ama [1 rate]

Normally, I find the concept of HP boards a little offputting, but the title's what drew me in. Here goes!

BANNER

WOW. It took me a minute to realize what it was, but I think that the fight between Dumbledore and Voldemort was amazing, especially since I saw it in 3D. Great picture, and I love the font.

WELCOME TABLE

It's refreshing to see a side table instead of the traditional "under the banner" look. One thing I don't get is the double semicolon ";;" that's in the title of each of the section titles.

Perhaps the best thing I saw about your welcome table was the "Credits" section. It lets people know who owns what without them having to troll the entire site for them.

OVERALL FORUM LOOK
The first thing I noticed was the inconsistency of the colors. I really like the green head images in the category titles, but then I looked over and saw the blue/gray color of the welcome table and even the navbar. I'd recommend using the image for the category titles in all the head images. It's really nice, so make the most of it.

Also, the magenta text really stuck out. I'm having trouble deciding whether the magenta is a bad thing or not.

BOARD ORGANIZATION

I like the fact that it's organized, but I really don't have much to say as far as this goes. I am glad to see that you've added links to the subboards in the category descriptions, though.

RULES

The rules are pretty straightforward, which is a good thing. I also liked that you had links as references so that if people didn't know what you were talking about, they could go to the link and do some research. I did have a few issues, though.

One: Spelling and grammar. I'm not going to be overly critical, but it was bugging me.
Two: The semicolons. What's up with those?
Three: In the RP rules when you were giving examples, I thought that whenever there was an example, it was of what was wrong, not what was right. You might want to clear that up.

FINAL CALL

Overall, the banner was the only thing that really caught my eye. Other than that, I'd say that I was kinda sad to see that I found more issues with your forum than good things. That's something I really hate in rating boards, but sometimes it's unavoidable.

-sigh- In any case, I hope my suggestions prove helpful!

Rating: EDIT 6/10.

I'm glad you took the time to read my rate!

I'm using Firefox on a Mac, so that might be why. I'll check it again when I get home so I can see how it looks on IE.

Actually, I got the FOP reference and found it extremely funny. I do, however, give you brownie points because English isn't your primary language. See? I'm always willing to modify my thinking.

Along those lines, I also give you brownie points because I didn't understand the semicolon use. It's not annoying or anything. One thing I did notice was that the links in the rules had semicolons before them, and I don't know if they fall into the area of admin stuff as well.

Anyway, thanks for clearing that up for me! I've modified my rating based on what you've told me. ;D