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Graphics & Design/Theme & Layout - Rating: Excellent
- Detailed, organized, and professional - these words come to mind as I shoot a glance through your forum. Forum section icons are beautiful and flawless, forum color is excellent and great for reading, and the whole theme exhibits a contemporary style masterfully stitched together into a great design. The CSS effects are stunning - I love the hover effects; they contribute a lot to the modern theme. The only thing that bothers is the chatbox, which is located at the top of the forum. For me, it looks too much like a big blob of empty space, so I suggest that it should be moved to the bottom instead. Otherwise, initial appearance is excellent and I am quite impressed.
For the navigation bar, You might want to consider graphic buttons. The text is fine as it is now, but I'm wondering a right set of buttons might have a better effect. Try it and see if you like it - for here, it's best to experiment and choose whatever you think (image or text) is most preferable for your forum.
Now at an in-depth look at the inside of your board. Your forum post buttons are excellent and I love the "Send Friend Request" button in the profile in the messages, which is easy and so much more convenient. Your staff rank images, however, seem a little large and bland. The text in the graphic is rather too ordinary, and the whole image looks a step down from the rest of the quality graphics. Try a set that complements the modern theme of your forum.
Also, the widgets on your forum index seem a little drab. There's a lot of text. Try putting widgets with interesting graphics in between the text widgets to make things more interesting.
Your forum is clearly excellently designed. The whole style is quite contemporary and is a great example of a well designed board. Your site gives the user a sense of its professionalism and uniqueness and if you work on some of the suggestions made, I dare say you have a perfect board. Superlative work!
Regards and best of luck,
Empire_1
Keep up the hard work!
Thanks a lot, Empire_1! :D