www.hiifii.com/forums Wanted suggestions,review,comments

[amitpatel_3001]

Hello members,i wanted a good Review about my new forum
The Homepage has all the Categories of the forum with links and also the Latest 15 threads Reporting here - www.hiifii.com
The forum has around 30+ Main Categories in which many are Hidden from Guests and only after joining you can see.- www.hiifii.com/forums
I have placed Quick Reply MOD
Also Adsense between posts.

I want your review about this.
Also how to get members now.
Please help me.

[Jimbob1989]

your not planning on staying a long time are you

[amitpatel_3001]

Why what did i do?
Last time i didnt knew that 50 posts were completed or not.
Nowi have around 70 posts.
Still cant i have a Reviews thread?

[Jimbob1989]

oh right, sorry, you've been spamming after your last thread

[amitpatel_3001]

Well Show me some threads where i have Spammed then i can tell that iam wrong.

[mondine]

Overall, what can be seen of the forums looks pretty good. The Portal page could use a little work on design, though. It's rather plain-looking, and doesn't really fit with the forum design.

It might also help to define your focus a little bit more. Keep the variety, but maybe pick a few areas to emphasize, in order to get people's interest (whether it's business, social, entertainment, cultural, etc.).
For your current number of active members, your forum subjects seem to be somewhat randomly selected and organized. You might consider making them a little leaner, and broadening the subjects gradually, to meet the needs of your members.

It's like your signature. It can be a very powerful tool, but packing too much into it really just blunts the message.
Seeing it gives me no real idea of what to expect to see, therefore I don't really feel compelled to go and look.

Something shorter, to the point, and with maybe a hook, like mentioning your free hosting contest, would be more effective in getting attention, in my opinion, than a laundry-list of subjects.
You want to make a punchy impact. Messages that are too long and wandering are just tuned-out by the public.

The same on your forum pages. Who are you? What's the forum about?
Even if it's just a short note of welcome, people should have some sense of this when they land on the page.
There are a lot of forums these days that come and go. Establishing an identity is crucial to long-term success.
If you had a motto, what would it be? When people leave your pages, what is it about them that they will remember, to make them want to come back?

Anyway, those are a few thoughts. I hope that I've not sounded too critical. Just trying to be constructive.

[physik3r]

If you really want to make this site better I would work on your portal design a bit.

The colour scheme is pretty harsh on the eyes. Why not follow the same colour scheme that your forums use?

The search bar is redundant so I would remove that as well. YOu might want to add some padding the centre section as well so that it doesn't 'hit' the black bordering you have