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Desire - June 22, 2008 10:01 PM (GMT)
Board Name: Extreme General
Board URL: http://z15.invisionfree.com/ExtremeGeneral/index.php?act=idx
Board Description: The most innovative Wrestling Forum out on Invision Free, home of the Big Race contest. We're always looking to become the best we can even during the down times. Never mess with the General!
Specific things you would like a comment on (optional): Anything really, anything you feel could make us better.

P.S. Banner = coming in off a request.

HelenaZF - June 24, 2008 05:47 PM (GMT)
user posted image Strengths
  • Forums titles are creative and are well-organized,
  • Excellent assortment of contests and posting incentives
  • Skin and buttons very classy. Submenu design is very attractive
user posted image Weaknesses
  • Skin is beautiful, but text is hard to read because the text color is a bit too dark for the background color for comfortable reading. Suggest using a lighter gray color.
  • No "in a nutshell" explanation of what your forum is about for guest visitors. Not everyone will take the time to nose around
  • no wrestling theme visible in your graphics (this may be remedied by your new banner)
  • Only a few members with posting numbers over 100.
user posted image Recommendations
  • More emphasis is need on what makes you "extreme". Maybe "extreme alerts" in a special area on the forum, or in staff sigs.
  • Give visitors a good reason to register.
  • Flesh out some of the areas you want to be draws...such as your graphics forums. Remove bad links and add some fresh content, including tutorials. Have a competition to draw attention to those areas.
  • Feature your wrestling theme more aggressively, in graphics and promotions
  • Affliate with other wrestling boards, as sports lovers will often visit many sports boards. Perhaps a button to the affiliate page could be included in the submenu.
  • Add a welcome/orientation topic to your Newbie forum. How about an "extreme welcome" page?
As with most forums, your challenge is to keep constant activity. Unfortunately, there don't seem to be any formulas that are guarantees. Persistance and luck seem to be equally necessary.

Desire - June 25, 2008 01:34 AM (GMT)
We just added the "Guest page" thing back to the forum. We had one on the site, we just forgot to re-add it when the site got revamped and switched around :R.

We just got the new banner, looking to try and center it but I don't know how as it's one of those ones where we change it from the CSS not the images things.

Were trying our best to get some active memebers, but it's pretty hard to do but we've kept trying as hard as we can :cool:

HelenaZF - June 25, 2008 02:08 AM (GMT)
The banner is good...should tell a lot of your story for you. :)

Please post your CSS and we can help you with the banner centering issue.

Desire - June 25, 2008 02:29 AM (GMT)
Header & Body

CODE
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" alink="#000000" vlink="#000000">
<div align="center"><table class="maintable">
<tr>
 <td>

[B]<div class="http://z15.invisionfree.com/ExtremeGeneral"><img src="http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh214/HuskiesBaseball1/2uggeoh.png"/></div>[/b]

<div class="customsubmenu">
<a href="http://z15.invisionfree.com/ExtremeGeneral/index.php?">Home</a><a href="http://z15.invisionfree.com/ExtremeGeneral/index.php?showtopic=13">TOS</a><a href="http://z15.invisionfree.com/ExtremeGeneral/index.php?showforum=3">Help</a><a href="http://z15.invisionfree.com/ExtremeGeneral/index.php?act=Stats&CODE=leaders">Staff</a><a href="http://z15.invisionfree.com/ExtremeGeneral/index.php?act=Members&max_results=10&sort_key=posts&sort_order=desc">members</a>
</div>
<% BOARD HEADER %>
<% NAVIGATION %>
<% BOARD %>
<% STATS %>
<br><div align="center"><div class="important"><b>Auspice</b> skin created by <b>sakuragi-kun</b> of the <a href="http://forums.ifskinzone.net">IF Skin Zone</a>.</div></div


The link to the skin told me to change that in order to get the skin functionable or something like that. And I did it, the skin shows up perfectly. It's just not clickable or centered :unsure: .

http://s2.zetaboards.com/ifskinzone/topic/622351/1/

Thanks for helping me out guys :cool: .

Cory - June 25, 2008 08:24 PM (GMT)
QUOTE
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" alink="#000000" vlink="#000000">
<div align="center"><table class="maintable">
<tr>
<td>

<div class="http://z15.invisionfree.com/ExtremeGeneral"><img src="http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh214/HuskiesBaseball1/2uggeoh.png"/></div>

<div class="customsubmenu">

Change the text highlighted in green to this:

QUOTE
<div class="customlogo"><a href="http://z15.invisionfree.com/ExtremeGeneral/index.php"><img src="http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh214/HuskiesBaseball1/2uggeoh.png"></a></div>

Locate the .customlogo class in your CSS and add the text highlighted in green.

QUOTE
.customlogo { text-align:center; background-image: url(http://209.85.12.234/11249/48/upload/p1240594.jpg); border: 1px solid #303030; }

Desire - June 26, 2008 04:40 AM (GMT)
Ah, thank you very much. Worked like a charm once I found them.

Thanks for being so helpful and giving me some good ideas to use in the future and everything :cool:

cjs - July 11, 2008 01:58 AM (GMT)
I posted on this forum about 4 days ago and no replies - mmmm




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