DSSR — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:53:08 +0000

WOW, this website is way too advanced for me , but looks good, and I'm sure it gives good information

teknoledge — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:45:37 +0000

Thanks Megan on a great review!

Yeah, you are maybe right... we should decrease forums number but it is so hard cause those are very specific categories and they cant go under the same forum ... not to mention that there are missing some forums like "Development" and "Marketplace" ...

Hmmm... we should definitely think of a way to decrease forums number

Megan — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:33:15 +0000

Hi teknoledge, Sorry it took me so long to get to reviewing your site.

My first impression is that this looks pretty good. You've got a well defined colour scheme and visual identity going. I wasn't really keen on that combination of red and blue at first but it's starting to grow on me.

The top navigation bar and login should bump under the logo. This way it won't cause a scrollbar at narrower screen widths.

Looking at the forums list, the first problem I see is that there are way too many of them. I don't know anything about smart phones so I'm not sure what could be cut out here, but things should be kept small when you're starting out a forum. This first of all makes you look busier by condensing the post counts. Secondly, it makes it easier for people to post because they don't have to navigate so many forums and figure out where they're supposed to post their question. You could probably condense all of those into one forum for each section rather than one for each possible brand or technology used. When you get busier you can expand things.

The top section also has way too many forums. Site Announcements and Feedback can go together. News and Rumours and Health can go with General discussion, they don't need their own forums. Although you're getting a lot of discussion in the news area so maybe that one should stay. Normally I would argue that this section should go at the bottom but maybe in this case it's okay at the top. It could serve as a good introduction when the rest of the forums are so fragmented.

Wow, I just realized you've got further subforums underneath those!! Way too much navigation to do. I personally really dislike forums that are so segmented like this. It makes it really hard to navigate and get information.

The forum graphics look really good. Very well designed, although that quote button might be a little big. All the graphics and design is very well done actually A favourites icon would be a nice touch.