Tartan Army Gaming Clan

Name of the Forum: Tartan Army Gaming Clan
Address: http://tartanarmy.forumotion.co.uk/
Type of Review (Do not Edit): Full Review
Your Name on the board: ToXiCuR3

I would like a Full Review of my forum It's mostly a Call of Duty 4 (& a few other games such as BF3 and Warhammer) Clan Site & Forum. I just recently updated it's look and was wondering if i could get the forum reviewed. Thank you in Advance

May I also attempt a review of this forum?

You are both very welcome to do a review if you wish so

adam360 wrote:May I also attempt a review of this forum?

No, you may not.

I have already tagged this request.
Please take another look at our Guidelines

Awww I've literally just finished after sitting here for 50 mins doing it =[

adam360 wrote:Awww I've literally just finished after sitting here for 50 mins doing it =[

You can post yours this time.

However, next time, do note that you are not allowed to do a review when it is already tagged.

Thank you for letting me, it won't happen again =D




First Impressions - Rating: Excellent (10/10 points)

Upon entering your forum, one of the first things I noticed was that it looked very professional, I say this because of how everything has its own place on the forum, it looks very well organised, The second thing that stood out to me in front of everything was the scrolling images on the forum page, it is the right size, the images match the forum, and it also kind of gives people a “He/She knows what they’re doing” feeling.

Graphics & Layout - Rating: Excellent(9/10 points)

Okay, sos firstly on the images and layout topic I would just like to say “WOW” the style of your forum is incredible, all images are evenly placed, looking very professional, but most of all, they are easy to see! Which makes it a lot more user friendly (which everybody likes)the only thing I could really comment on negatively is you have forums for each Call of Duty, yet the “who’s online” image displays Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (4th Call of Duty) perhaps making it look more of a Call of Duty series forum would entice more users to join? None the less fantastic layout and the graphics are very professional

Forum Activity - Rating: Average (5/10 points)

Although you have a lot of members, less than a third of them are active in a 24 hr time span, which is quite disappointing due to how well the forum looks, none the less, I suggest advertising your forum as much as you can as a few more active members would not hurt. A great place to start of promoting your forum is the promotion section (http://help.forumotion.com/f12-forum-promotion-forumotion-forums-only)

Staff & Usergroups - Rating: Poor (3/10 points)

6 out of 13 members online within a 24 hr time span were moderators, this tells me that you have just added people who are friendly to you to the staff team. While it is good having a good staff team, the size of your forum does not need too many staff members, I believe it would be in best interest to begin to make sectional moderators instead of having them all as global moderators, this would decrease your work load aswell.

Originality & Unique Quality - Rating: Excellent (10/10 points)

I would consider your forum to be unique as it is different to a lot of others in the instance that it has many different and unique features including the image scroller for example, not many forums use that even though it is a very effective technique to entice new users. Your forum also has very professional images giving it the “WOW factor” as people will want to explore it more.

Additional Comments – I am very pleased with your forum in the graphics and coding areas although there is always room to improve, you do however need to improve greatly on your forum activity and also how you manage your staff, I think your forum has massive potential though!

Grading your forum – In my opinion (calculating all points from the topics covered) your forum receives a sturdy…



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[list][font=Trebuchet MS]Upon entering your forum, one of the first things I noticed was that it looked very professional, I say this because of how everything has its own place on the forum, it looks very well organised, The second thing that stood out to me in front of everything was the scrolling images on the forum page, it is the right size, the images match the forum, and it also kind of gives people a “He/She knows what they’re doing” feeling. [/font][/list]

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[list][font=Trebuchet MS]Okay, sos firstly on the images and layout topic I would just like to say “WOW” the style of your forum is incredible, all images are evenly placed, looking very professional, but most of all, they are easy to see! Which makes it a lot more user friendly (which everybody likes)the only thing I could really comment on negatively is you have forums for each Call of Duty, yet the “who’s online” image displays Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (4th Call of Duty) perhaps making it look more of a Call of Duty series forum would entice more users to join? None the less fantastic layout and the graphics are very professional[/font][/list]

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[list][font=Trebuchet MS]Although you have a lot of members, less than a third of them are active in a 24 hr time span, which is quite disappointing due to how well the forum looks, none the less, I suggest advertising your forum as much as you can as a few more active members would not hurt. A great place to start of promoting your forum is the promotion section (http://help.forumotion.com/f12-forum-promotion-forumotion-forums-only)[/font][/list]

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[list][font=Trebuchet MS]6 out of 13 members online within a 24 hr time span were moderators, this tells me that you have just added people who are friendly to you to the staff team. While it is good having a good staff team, the size of your forum does not need too many staff members, I believe it would be in best interest to begin to make sectional moderators instead of having them all as global moderators, this would decrease your work load aswell.[/font][/list]

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[list][font=Trebuchet MS]I would consider your forum to be unique as it is different to a lot of others in the instance that it has many different and unique features including the image scroller for example, not many forums use that even though it is a very effective technique to entice new users. Your forum also has very professional images giving it the “WOW factor” as people will want to explore it more.  [/font][/list]

[b][size=16]Additional Comments[/b][/size] – I am very pleased with your forum in the graphics and coding areas although there is always room to improve, you do however need to improve greatly on your forum activity and also how you manage your staff, I think your forum has massive potential though!

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Thank you so much!! It means a lot to me that the graphics and layout are good quality and as you said "wow" Took me several tries and redos to get it looking good As for the members and forum activity, the clan is at a point where we are deciding which way we are going to go, we were a COD4 only clan, but recently cod4 has been a bit dead with the new games coming out. So until there is a solid decision on which way the clan goes, i can't advertise much as i don't know the future path.
But anyways Thank you again this was very helpful!

You're welcome,

Glad it helped.

Once again Empire_1, thank you for letting me post this, I now know not to do a review if somebody has already tagged it =D

Was going to proofread this review, but since the requester has already read it, I'll go ahead and mark as complete.