Review my Community pointwolf.com

[PointWolf]

Hey guys i jst launched my community a few hours ago so there is very little posts but i wanted your opinion, I have been working in this for about 2 days getting everything set. I am using Xenforo. Let me know what you think

http://pointwolf.com

PointWolf Reviewed by PointWolf on 13th Feb 2011. Review my Community pointwolf.com Hey guys i jst launched my community a few hours ago so there is very little posts but i wanted your opinion, I have been working in this for about 2 days getting everything set. I am using Xenforo. Let me know what you think :P "]http://pointwolf.com Rating: 5

[Daniel]

Heya.

The first thing i'm noticing is that the left side on your website is completely empty.
You should definately move everything a little bit to the left or at least fill it up with something.

You can compare the left and the right side and you'll see what i'm talking about.

You must work on a new logo, perhaps you should get yourself a slogan to.

First, when I saw what the domain was I was thinking about wolfs of course, then when I opened the page I didn't see anything related to any sort of wolfs.

For me, it looks like another webmaster/webhosting community. It has nothing to do about wolfs. The domain is very misleadin.. It is misleading because the domain and the content on the website is not related somehow.

Personally I would have removed / hided the statistics and who's online until further. There is no statistic to brag about therefore it's not needed at all. If I as a random guest on your webpage joins, see those statistics then I wouldn't stay another second on the page becasue it is very obvious that the website is very new and probably can't do any good for me at all. So in the end I would have avoided it.

I like the blog that you have integrated with the forums. It is really good. Perhaps you want to create a category or two so it is easier to find related stuff. Other than that, it's a good blog, it should be updated regulary with new stuff.

are you planning on using this blog when you want to make some sort of announcement or are you going to use it to post articles? In my opinion both of the ideas would work very well. Once again, here comes the categories in the picture.

Well, it is all up to you though.

There is another thing that I would like to point out about the blog and that is the url shortening services you are using. Why can't you just post the full lenght of the url? Personally I really hate clicking on short urls. Why? Well, because I never know what's behind the url. For all I know you could be linking me to some sites like meatspin and I wouldn't like to be redirected to a site like meatspin. I'm sure there are more people like me that don't like clicking on url shortening services. So you'll consider yourself if you want to continue with'em or if you want to post the full lenght of the url which is definately my recommendation.

On the contact page on the blog you should probably add some sort of captcha so you can avoid unwanted spam to be sent to your email.

Best of luck with your forum and do not wait with filling up the forum with content, make sure there's something new every single day.

[PointWolf]

Thanks this is a very detailed and helpful review as for the wolf part. i will be adding a wolf to my logo.

As for the left i have been looking at this and i do agree but as i am not much of a coder and am using xenforo i am not really sure how i would change this.I have been thinking about removing the forums statistics. I will be removable them and working on the space on the left.

I will be adding more to the blog not really worked on it as i have been busy doing the forums.

Thanks
Pointwolf

[Daniel]

You're welcome.

If you're out of ideas, you could check out other forums and perhaps "steal" an idea from them.

Try to avoid filling it up with ads.

[PointWolf]

ok lol and yea i am not going to be displaying any ads for a while. I hate ads myself and i know how frustrating they can be. Do you have any suggestions on how to advertise ?

[Daniel]

I'd suggest that you use google to search for forums that is mainly aiming on forums like yours. Join these communities and advertise your own forum.

Basically the same you are doing now. KWWHunction is giving you loads of referral traffic.

[PointWolf]

ok thanks man yea i will be looking for mods on here shortly. and yea i will do this over the next few days

Thanks your awesome