Joined: Sept 2006 Posts: 41 Location: Seattle, WA Karma: 0
Re: VX Designs « Reply #1 on Nov 5, 2006, 1:07am »
The words in bold is what I am grading you on. At then end of all of those items, I will average it out and give you your overall and give a few suggestions for you to improve on. Banner: 7.5/10 - Your banner is very nice. Although I feel that it could use some work, maybe throw a splash a color in. Since I'm a Global Moderator for your forum I saw the Version 3 preview and I think you should keep working on that and switch it around the end of this month.
Skin: 8/10 - Your skin flows with all your pictures and colors. As I noted in the banner, I feel that you have too much gray and need to splash it up with some color! Try some of the following skin schemes that are popular and nice looking.
a. Blue/Silver b. Red/Silver c. Light Green/Silver
Those are some of the few that are nice, I'm sure you can come up with more.
On/Off Icons: 9.5/10 - Those On/Off icons are wonderful! I love how they look, how they flow, and how they represent an old or new post. Good work. Although everything can use improvements!
Info Center: 6/10 - I know you have been busy coding your info center, and changing it, but it still is not up to date. Those images are both the same and have no idea what they represent; so those must be remade. You also have the forum age and the date, both of those are not needed. Your legend is nice, although I still prefer the plain text and not hovering over color blocks.
Background: 5/10 - Your background is very dull, and makes your skin even more gray and boring. Although the background matches your skin perfectly, it is still too much gray and silver. As noted on many of the others, it is once again too much gray/silver.
You have an overall grade of a 7.2. So a letter grade of a C-. I suggest you add the category splitter in; it is such a lovely add on to your forum. Take a look at the one I made. Keep on trying Salvager and never give up, keep it up!