Trading Stocks For Beginners Forum (Copy Trading)

[Kenny]

@socialtrading, the forum is generally a mess. I enjoy the idea, and your enthusiasm, however, the place is a bit cluttered. I recommend cleaning up the forum is great start. I hope this forum will do great.

[Gia_Sesshoumaru]

Board Layout - This needs some work. Generally, I would recommend some sort of basic "announcement" category - it only needs one board, announcements, but you can also have a place for rules there, too. Even if the rules are basic, it's a good idea to have them, I feel. Also, I would recommend a "help area" of some kind, as well, in case members have questions and don't want/can't go to discord. It also seems a bit... basic? I don't know much about this area, so I don't know what else you might need, and forum seems new and small, so I don't think this is a bad thing. I would just make sure and think about how you can expand, what boards you might need in the future. Look at other forums, and see what board ideas you can get from them.

Theme - Proboards basic, and I DO NOT recommend this. Look for some themes, there are plenty online for free, and get something that isn't... basic.

I hope this helps, and best of luck.

[Kenny]

Good luck on the theme.

[Gia_Sesshoumaru]

Oct 14, 2020 13:39:01 GMT -8 @socialtrading said:

Oct 13, 2020 12:28:36 GMT -8 Gia_Sesshoumaru said:

Board Layout - This needs some work. Generally, I would recommend some sort of basic "announcement" category - it only needs one board, announcements, but you can also have a place for rules there, too. Even if the rules are basic, it's a good idea to have them, I feel. Also, I would recommend a "help area" of some kind, as well, in case members have questions and don't want/can't go to discord. It also seems a bit... basic? I don't know much about this area, so I don't know what else you might need, and forum seems new and small, so I don't think this is a bad thing. I would just make sure and think about how you can expand, what boards you might need in the future. Look at other forums, and see what board ideas you can get from them.

Theme - Proboards basic, and I DO NOT recommend this. Look for some themes, there are plenty online for free, and get something that isn't... basic.

I hope this helps, and best of luck.

Thanks for the feedback Gia, it was very useful and constructive. After your advise, I plan to install a more modern theme, at the moment I am really working on content and the social media and YouTube and TiKTok channel that supports the Copy Trading Forum.

I had a look at your forum, it looks great and very modern I will look for a similar theme, if you don't mine me asking did you purchase the theme, do you recommend any good sites to search for themes? 

The reason why i wanted to keep it simple as I created a Classified Ads website on WordPress in the past and when I installed a Theme it never worked perfectly again as the originally even after installing, can you revert the Theme on ProBoards and will this be an issue?

In relation to  "announcement"  I was using the shoutout box for this task, maybe I will rethink, do you have any further opinions on this?

I really found your reply very useful, thanks again!
Anymore advise would be much appreciated by you or other members.

The theme on my site is custom made and designed.  

You can find themes here, and if you search "proboards themes" on google, you'll find sites that have them, too. 

As long as you install the theme seperately, and overwrite the original them, yes, you select which theme is used and delete it if it doesn't work.