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Post by The Hunger Games on Apr 11, 2009 22:19:08 GMT -8
Forum URL: www.hungergamesrpg.com/index.cgiForum Name: The Hunger Games Description: Desired Outcome of Rate: I'm interested in knowing how easy it is for a guest to get started on the site. Is it easy to find information and get acquainted with the community? How can we do better?
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Post by The Hunger Games on Apr 13, 2009 21:30:50 GMT -8
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Post by The Hunger Games on Jul 8, 2009 17:02:10 GMT -8
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Post by The Hunger Games on Jul 22, 2009 23:02:16 GMT -8
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Post by babygiraffe on Mar 26, 2012 11:54:05 GMT -8
Love the site, obviously things are going well for you with the number of members and all that. It looks good too. One thing I noticed: You have staff that are dedicated to advertising, but you don't have seem to have staff dedicated to accepting characters. You're pending character board is full and people are impatient. I think if you added one or two people whose sole job it was to log on and read the bios people would love the site even more. I just would hate for people to get discouraged after their apps aren't accepted and decide to join a different site instead.
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Post by Lainey on Mar 26, 2012 12:17:18 GMT -8
Design 10/10 I really love your design , very nice and very basic. Content 10/10 You have a good amount of things going always something to do. Wish you luck in the future Overall 20/20
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Post by The Hunger Games on Jun 2, 2012 20:35:37 GMT -8
Thanks so much, both of you!
As a response to the staff exclusively for accepting ads: That is the responsibility of all of the staff members. I don't know if having someone accept ads exclusively would work out but it's mostly what the moderators and librarians are responsible for. Thank you!
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Post by The Hunger Games on Jun 3, 2012 19:37:16 GMT -8
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Post by ADYSON BBY! on Jun 5, 2012 7:13:44 GMT -8
hello there! i love the hunger games so i figured i'd give your site a rate :D
first impression love love love the banner image. the text is so pretty and very fitting. the character directory in the sidebar is nice but it's kind of all over. maybe line the check boxes up? i feel like that would help members not accidentally click the wrong check box when trying to check one of the stats.
layout/colors the layout is very nice. it's fairly simple but gives a lot of information in the boards and such. just a suggestion, because you're using gradients in the category title bar, i would like to see the "forum name/last post" title bar removed. just to not have two gradients right next to each other? if you like it, you're more than welcome to keep it. it's just my graphic design self seeing that lol.
i love the colors. they make the mood of the books as well as the site. and of course, using the mockingjay as the on/off icons was a very smart choice (:
overall awesome site. awesome idea and it seems that your site is going very strong. well done for a site that's content is becoming more and more popular. 10/10
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Post by The Hunger Games on Jun 5, 2012 9:15:26 GMT -8
Hi Adyson! Thank you so much! I saw your website yesterday and I thought (think) it's really pretty. (: Very summery and beachy and the colors are very relaxing.
Anyways, thanks for the suggestions! I'll forward your layout requests to our administrator and hopefully we'll get some of that done. Thanks again!
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Post by The Hunger Games on Jun 11, 2012 22:06:52 GMT -8
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Post by JD on Jun 22, 2012 8:25:53 GMT -8
Hey there! First of all I would like to say that I don't know much about Hunger Games so I'm not gonna make comment on the content and I wouldn't really know what I'm talking about. I can give you my opinion on the design though. Overall the colour scheme looks really good. The greys and purples work well together and its not too in your face, nor is it clashing. I like the fact that your images don't make a big deal to stand out - like the on/off images and stuff. Though it is weird that the birthdays side image is grey when the rest in the info center are purple. In regards to the boards I might suggest getting a code to remove your forum name row and then you only have one row above and below each category. That might make it look a little smoother. Making your border a shade or two darker would also make it look a little less blocky, unless that was what you were going for. I think it looks a little weird that your boards have different amounts of description. Like, some have whole paragraphs and another will only have one line. Trying to add to the ones that don't have much would make them look more uniform. In the side table, I really dislike all the little tick boxes that are all over the place but I do ADORE the coding that they are a part of - very cool. I have no idea how you would alter the little boxes so that they aren't grey. Maybe that's just me and my Chrome doing that, I don't know. Your CBox rules aren't that long and it seems weird to have a scrollbar for them - especially across ways. You might wanna edit the width of it so that you don't get the horizontal scrollbar on there or just remove both altogether as I don't think you need them and on Chrome at least they're bright grey so are super obvious and break up the side tables. My main issue with this forum is the fact that you have all of these really awesome codes going on and yet the design and images are kinda... bland. The logo doesn't stand out, the spotlights images a really overtly simple (and they don't even match - one of them has rounded corners and the others don't). It looks to me like you have a frickin' awesome site - as in the content and the events and all the members that you have - you're obviously super popular and amazing at running your forum, and yet the forum design itself isn't very......... inventive? When you compare it to forums like this or this, yours is left in the dust. Even though you're obviously a hundred times more effective than they are.... It's kinda weird... and as a graphic designer it sets my creativity into hyper drive and I get frustrated because you could totally look amazingly epic AND have all the tons of members and you would be like an internet superpower or something :-P Sorry if any of this sounds harsh, it's just my opinion and I get the creativity bug to do something about a site that seems to be as great as yours but doesn't have the looks to match. If 5 out of 10 marks come from content (which from your member count, i'm going to assume you have) I rank this at a 7/10.
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Post by The Hunger Games on Jun 22, 2012 10:37:56 GMT -8
Hey Obsidian and thanks for the review!
As for your layout notes, I'll give them to my boss. I've always felt like the layout we have encourages all kinds of people, especially those who have no experience RPing but want to participate in the Hunger Games, to join the site. Those sites you linked are very pretty but whenever I'm on them, it feels like it's designed for "serious" and advanced roleplayers who need a sophisticated design to match their sophisticated writing and attitude. We honestly welcome people of all RP levels and we always have an influx of newbies with potential -- I think the board's just more open to match that. I will give my boss your notes though and she might make some changes with your recommendations.
The checkboxes are just so things don't get too long. (: Mine show up as white boxes, though.
Thank you SO much for your review! Really, we can learn from your advice. I love how it's constructive.
P.S. Read the Hunger Games. (: It's not too bad of a book.
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