OK since i asked for this forum i will make the first post.

This is a community like this site, just for graphic design. You dont need to sign up to view the site. Just want to know what you think of the over all look and feel. If there is anything that you might add to make it more of a user friendly site. I'm not new to community sites and i know pretty much what i would want in a board, but i would love to know what other community users look for in a board so i would know what i can do. The address is http://www.gfxaid.com

Thanks in advanced

Disclaimer: I am not posting this as spam, I am not telling members to sign up on my board. Just want some personal feed back for other users.

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GFXaid :: Graphic Design Community

Hi,

Thanks for adding the first site to be reviewed. Well, this is not my type of forum style. Not to say that it is not good but I would personally not sign up because I don't like the layout. Makes it too difficult for me. (sad I know)

Main page is nice, simple. Overall alright. Now the site is supposed to be for graphic design? That I was not 100% clear about.

If so there was not much to support that other than the small font at the top of the page that mentions it.

Hope this feedback helps! Best of luck to you.

It looks like a nice looking site to my self. I'm not in graphic design so my opinion might not be all that valuable, but it looked clean and sharp. My one suggestion would be fill in the blanks in your forum. You've got empty categories in there which is a bad first impression. Either get rid of the categories until you have something to put in there, post yourself in there, or buy some content for it. Nice looking site overall.

I would like to start of by saying that you should look into making your site load faster as it is pretty slow to load which could lead to visitors closing your site before it has loaded fully.

The design of the site is clean and fresh. I like the look of your banner and the site overal is not bad.

i tried to open your website and it gave me this message Sorry, but this board is currently unavailable. Please try again later. i will tell you one thing i will not come later ... try to fix this problem

hi ! i hope that i'm not too harsh, but you can compare your forum with this one, just need to make few adjustments, otherwise it's good.
It's new so will take some time to be IN.
I like the colors and overall theme, but little more graphics would be a nice addition.
good luck ! for your forum

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I visited your forum. It is very nice to see. But you have to try to expand this forum. You should attract people to join and participate. Simply sign-up is not useful. People should actively participate. You should do something for that. What you can do is paying for the posts. People those who are spending time will be happy whenever they are paid. After building up a vast base of members and posts, no doubt, your forum will be number 1. Best of luck.

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Nice theme. The only thing I would suggest is to add some content to the left hand side. even if its just banner ads. It just looks too empty over there.

Everything looks fine until I navigate to other pages and I can't find my way back to the home page. I tried clicking on the logo but there's no link attached to it, ended up I have to click the back button several times to see the home page. Maybe you would want to improve on this.

A poor navigation experience is when users are not able to get back to the home page easily.

Hope that helps.

I like it. Only thing that I can give a criticism is your header. The snow flakes dont really fit for a graphic design forum