TheHostMarket Review

This is taking quite a long time to load on dial-up. I'm not sure if that's just me or not.

Now that it is loaded, I like the look of it. It's nice and clean, good colour scheme (green isn't too common so it stands out), crisp graphics and good logo. The favicon looks to be purple and orange to me, which is alittle strange. I like the custom icons you have for each forum. Those add some interst to what would otherwise be kind of boring. The icons are very good quality although they don't quite fit the sharp, flatter look and feel of the rest of the graphics. THere's a bit of a disconnect there. If you can, try making the gradients in the icons more subtle, more like what you've got in the site logo.

There's never much to say about a well done site

Oh, whoops, I found a problem. I can't even see any of the forum content without logging in. I imagine you're doing this to encourage people to register. The problem is that people don't know if they want to join if they can't read anything. They might join anyway if they're convinved that your forum can help them, but they might just go away. the other big problem here is that if users can't see it then search engines can't either.

Megan you have dial-up?

OK - first of all, great site. no problem loading on broadband . I, like totally agree with Megan in that forcing users to go through a registration process just to see you site's content is so last year. Community parts of the sites, yes. To post or create threads, yes. But not just to have a browse.

Love the skin and love the icons. It's not often I like the look of site offered for review here, but I do like yours. Not sure how much of it's your own work, though - but no matter; I'm not one to talk on this subject, anyway.

I can't help but think that some content other than that of the forum is needed, but maybe when content is more easily accessible that won't be a problem.

I have no idea how long the site has been running but you seem to have a reasonable memberbase, which is good.

Maybe you could reply telling us what you've done and whether you want more specific advice or anything. As far as I can tell, the site's doing fine so there's no need to worry

Nice site, one of the best I've seen so far on this forum. =)
Not much to say except:
- the links at the top ( • Register • FAQ • Search • Memberlist • Advertise • Log in •) are too small and light-colored to grab my attention
- the favicon colors don't match the colors you've used on the site.

But you have a great site, good luck with it.