opinions on my forum

[stopsign]

Hey everyone
I would sure appreciate any critism or advice on how my forum looks.
Please be honest thank you all so much for all the support.
gameofarms.co/

[Former Member]

Nice and simple. I like it stopsign. But maybe change the background to something else?

[drut]

Looks cool. But the logo/banner is a bit busy.

The site doesn't display properly on my firefox browser, you have to scroll to the right to see it all. I had that problem with mine and then I was told to put this in the css but I'm not sure if it will help you since mine had a wrapper.

#wrapper { .box-sizing(); }

PS. How did you do the boxes on the right? Is it a plugin? Thanks.

[jimle]

id keep the part of the back ground that reads country crush..but i think the color back ground needs to be a different color,so the country crush will stand out more..

[rohan]

stopsign

1) As drut said, your banner has too many things on it to be visually attractive. A banner should be plain, simple and elegant, not filled up with things and messy.

2) Your Home, Forum and SO (No idea what that is) all link back to your discussion board. It's best that you only keep one link to remove confusion/annoyance. In my opinion, Home would be the best choice.

3) Arm Wrestling Board : You should remove the Caps on the Board headings as it gives off a bad vibe.

4) Official Rankings Board : You have filled the Forum Descriptions with Locations. Perhaps give a Board description beneath it also ? (Purpose, Role, etc)

5) Your Forum Backgrounds fits well with your Forum theme and looks very nice.

6) The Cap for New Posts, I think the No New Posts should also have a counterpart as it looks odd otherwise.

7) Friends of Arm Wrestling Underground (At the bottom of Forum), you should change the color to make it more visible, the Red color is kinda glaring.

[Fiera Nyx]

Heya stopsign A few things I'd advise you on to help you out with your forum:

• Simplify the banner.
• Get some 'arm wrestling' icons to use for the boards (no new posts, new posts etc) - even if they're just something like 'AU' or 'AWU' in green for new posts and 'AU' or 'AWU' in grey for no new posts. 
• Perhaps find a skin/theme that would suit your board and modify it.
• Use a bit more colour if you're able. (At the moment it reminds me of Internet Explorer)
• Browse through some of the codes that are available for forums and find a few that might help make yours a bit more interesting/different.
• Maybe condense the side tables so that the pictures only show up when you hover over them, or so they scroll along/up instead of taking up a lot of space.

Anyway, hope that helps. All the best!

[Tumbleweed]

Jan 23, 2015 19:23:00 GMT -8 @hadesfire said:

Nice and simple. I like it stopsign. But maybe change the background to something else?

Jan 25, 2015 9:52:06 GMT -8 jimle said:

id keep the part of the back ground that reads country crush..but i think the color back ground needs to be a different color,so the country crush will stand out more..

Hey there,

You may want to read our board rules and there are examples of how to do a proper critique. We just ask you give a bit more thought and helpful suggestions. For example, what kind of a background or what different color. Thanks. 

[stopsign]

Thank you all for your honest opinions If there us anyone who could help me make my forum a little less busy and a lot more interesting Nd accessible I would truly appreciate it. Thank you again everyone

[mmhmm]

Looks to me like the first thing you need to address is your banner. You might want to ask for help on the Graphics Design forum. Those folks know what they're doing when it comes to design, banners, logos and colours.

[drut]

Feb 1, 2015 8:44:42 GMT -8 stopsign said:

Thank you all for your honest opinions If there us anyone who could help me make my forum a little less busy and a lot more interesting Nd accessible I would truly appreciate it. Thank you again everyone

Use a slider. Really makes things interesting to look at. There's a good plugin for it called islider

[Tumbleweed]

stopsign, Would you edit your first post and change the subject line to the name of your site or what your site is about, per our rules. Why I failed to notice that before, I don't know. Thanks.