Hi everyone..

Im very new as an admin to forums. I just created a forum the other day and I wondered if anyone could give me any advice about it whatsoever. I accept all feedback. I would like to be able to learn as much as I can especially from those veteran forum admin!

Thanks in advance!

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Hi,

I just a look at your site and I have a few constructive comments. I'm using IE7 and I found the site very dark and hard to read in my old age plus the logo has the top cut off.

Apart from that all looks good to me, you just need to start shouting about it - if you'll pardon the pun!

Best of luck

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Very creative site. I would suggest looking at other sites similar to yours and emulate some of the things that make them successful. Now I didn't say copy so don't try to do the exact same thing as them. Maybe get a few ads on your forums so it doesn't look so static. A really neat feature could be a sort of "shoutbox" or something that if someone has something really short they want to vent instead of posting a huge tread maybe they can just post a one line rant of rave. Also, the dark purple/pink is a little difficult to read. Look at possibly getting a theme or something installed to give your site a look thats different to make you stand out! good luck!

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I agree that the purple link text is difficult to read, I would consider making it lighter. And like what BoardBrawl said, either find features your competitors use and improve upon them, or come up with something unique to set yourself apart.

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thank you very much for the input! I appreciate it. I actually tried to use a shoutbox but for some reason never could get it to work right...

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I just modified it different...there should be no purple now...Or, is it appearing as something different to others?

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The links (and forum headers) still look purple to me. I think it would look better if you used the mouseover link color for the main link color.

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Yeah, I think you should either change the mouseover color or do something like that. Right now when you mouse over a link it seems to "disappear" because of the likeness to the background color. Also that dark red on the grey background is very hard to decipher. Maybe change the forum titles to a different color I dunno. Just seems very distracting..

On a positive note I think your forum is very organized and that is very important. I try not to let me viewers have to look any more than 3 levels deep for their main topic. Granted sometimes you have to go deeper if your looking for specific but like in your case if someone was looking for anger management classes in Florida I wouldn't want them looking deeper than three levels to find information on anger management classes in general.

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thank you! will work on something different now...appreciate all the help guys!

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