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[HPIA]

This forum as tons of features. vbplaza (Diagon Alley), v3arcade (Zonko's), shoutbox, flashchat, and tons and tons and tons of modifications. Our skins are currently under construction, but we have about 12 skins. You can only see one currently.

Other than that, we are a small forum. We are here for the members and nothing more. The members come back again and again, they love the place. We have about 300 members and 275 of them are active. We just dont get our name out that much.

Give me your toughest criticism .

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[Shelley]

From a visual perspective it's bad. Find yourself a style that looks visually more pleasing than the default vulletin skin.

The logo isn't great and the placement right bang in the middle isn't great either. I would spereate it and implement some space between the bottom of the logo and the top table. Your logo should stand out (which it kinda does) but it's not visually great.

Lastpost icons have a black box which means that it's using another backgrounds matte which should only be applied onto a black background.

Same rule applies to the tcat collapse icons. A black matted set on a blue gradient looks awfull.

If it were me I would revaluate about getting comfortable with this style because there are to many incorrectly saved out images on backgrounds that they shouldn't be applied onto. I would also change the buttons, For me I still class re-coloured (hue and saturated colour shifts) as default and I think you would be doing yourself a favour by replacing them.

Before i forget, I noticed you resized the whats going on icons. Bad move, You may have the psd from the vbulletin gdk but the layers are rasterized and not in vector form so any resizing will reduce the quality.

Goodluck with your forum.

[HPIA]

Ah, thats not even fair :p

Our server lost half of its information. We lost over 7000 posts and all our skins were whiped. Right now, we aren't trying to get skins back. Visually, its ****ing ugly. But I assure you it was beautiful at one point. We had all custom skins and they fit out purpose well.

Until we get back on our feet, I dont think our board can take criticism at the moment, so I'd be happy if an admin could close this.

Thanks.

[Shelley]

I caught your board at the wrong time. Hopefully, you'll have your board fixed and everything in place and I will be more than happy to review it again.

Hope you get it sorted soon.