what do you think about my vb5's forum design?

just a general forum, we chat, we debate, we discuss about sex, relation, lifestyle, etc.

http://www.sukagwe.com

note: this might be the 1st Indonesian forum that use vb5c.

just say anything, critism or any comment.

 

The logo is way to small and the site take almost 20 seconds to load.

I'd work on that before asking for suggestions.
I would normally just close out and not come back, I'm sure I'm not the only one.

 

the logo is normal, maybe because the vb script
here is my logo http://www.sukagwe.com/images/sukagwe/logo1.png


maybe because I hosted in local (Indonesia) hosting company
btw thanks brandon.

 

The site loading speed is probably a vBulletin 5 related issue, so I'm not going to critique you there.

Design wise it looks okay (and at least more interesting than most vBulletin 5 sites I've seen so far), but nothing out the ordinary. Maybe you should edit the colours of the postbit template soon as well, they seem to still be done out in vB 5 battleship grey.

 

I'm guessing you have dimension restrictions on the image

 

I'm not sure I would put a big animated graphic like that in the Debate forum description, I think it makes the page look even more unbalanced.

 

Hmm, like the other's said, site loads too slow, so people would close it straight away. And the whole site is pretty slow, maybe server issues, not sure.
Logo is a bit too small, and too much 'blank' space at the top where the header is.
Not really a fan of the 'hover' buttons when you hover over hyper links in the header and footer. But maybe that's just me lol.
And yeah, the animations in one of the thread sections is too big.

 

It also took about twenty seconds to load for me in Australia and I have a fast system and connection.
Does it load faster for you in Indonesia?

It may be VB5 that is slowing things down? This slowness needs looking at to avoid potential members from leaving before it is loaded.

 

It's very likely a mix of vB 5 and the hosting that's slowing the site down. vB 5 and poor quality shared hosting = not a good combination.

 

I can say that maybe you're the 1st forum in the world that uses vb5

I had the same problem as others with page load. Actually the browser timeout trying to load it. But as you said most probably is from your hosting provider. I seen the same delay on loading other Indonesian sites too.

 

The page load time is horrible and I can't tell if it is from hosting or just other factors. You need to fix the load time for your forum as most people won't sit around 30 seconds for a site to load up.

 

I would gladly give my opinion, but I can't reach the page mate. It just won't load up, not sure if that's up to you or someone else, but make sure you fix that.