I need some help here, maybe I'm a bad host.

[D'Snowth]

<3 is a heart

Really? Well then...

I <3 you, I really do

Aww, thanks MrsP! That really meant a lot to me. Wow. I'm quite fond of you too! This is now my new home away from home!

 

[homerthegreat]

Perhaps it is the host, actually. Many people look at Proboards forums and are like, "Proboards is free, and runs like crap. Looking at this site is a waste of time." Having many PB forums myself, I know it well. Also, PB Forums are famous for having all default stuff on, colors, images, and everything. I have never heard of this "suddenlaunch" business, but it looks like the same technology PB uses. I would reccomend you spiff up the forum with custom images or cme more complex HTML in your headers/footers. A good example of this is my band's board, located here. As you can see, I have customized pretty much all the images, and added cooler HTML in the headers/footers (such as the info box at the top, and the metacrawler search bar at the bottom). By customizing your board, viewers may think, "hey, this looks like a cool board", and stay a bit longer. Then they may find some cool stuff and they'll join. May not work the greatest, but it is worth a try. And if you need any help, I'd be glad to do it.

edit: sorry, I thought you meant the site is under a bad host. Oops. No, I don't think you're a bad host. I think it isn't that popular because of reasons stated above. Also, the main site should be booming, does it get a lot of traffic?

 

[luvtosr]

I would agree with everyone else, bump your links closer to the top, if I hadn't known they were there I would have thought the site was still under construction and left before I found them.

Another thing is I found the blue writing on the coloured background a bit of a struggle to read I would recommend possibly toning down the background and using one with less colours. It could just be me though.

Apart from that, it is a really nice little site, I'm sure it will pick up, sometimes things just take a bit of time.

 

[D'Snowth]

Also, the main site should be booming, does it get a lot of traffic?

Yeah, but most of it's me visiting my own site everyday hoping to find a friend. No, I'm kidding a bit, but yeah, it does get quite a few hits per day. The traffic's starting to pick up a bit too, about a month ago, my site was taken down by FreeWebs because I had exceeded my bandwidth. Well, after I got my site back, I noticed it was no longer listed on Google and Yahoo, and other search engines. But it is now, so traffic is picking pack up. Sudden Launch is a joke! I spent a quite afew minutes working up a Logo for the forum, but they won't let me upload it. Also, my News Fader won't appear! But still, I was sure that more people wouldn't joined by now, but I DID explain on the main site, that I'm still experimenting with it, and I am.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Well, you've done one step: Posted about the thing on another forum that you visit. You have to advertise it, my friend!! There are either general discussion or 'friends and family' areas on nearly all forums, just go post about your site there and see if that gains you some recognition.

 

[MrsPepper]

Yep, advertise, advertise, advertise!!!

I can help you out alot when it comes to organising up your site, and cleaning it up. I'm also an amateur with graphic design, so I can make you a logo or buttons (Photoshop is your friend!). Like I said before, your actual site content is good, and when your layout is really snazzy, people will be compelled to join your forum.

Ahahaha, the heart. <3 it's a sideways heart. You read it out as "heart" too. So it reads "I heart you". Meaning in my little language, that you're awesome. I was worried about hurting your feelings by me critiquing your site, so I was reminding you that it was just that, critiquing.

By the way, what do you host your site on? It's hard to get anything free that is really good (no ads, alot of space, etc). Have you considered buying any webspace? Or, a friend of mine has his own server, but I don't know if he hosts sites anymore. Hmm...

 

[D'Snowth]

Freewebs is my host, and they're AWESOME! If you could, e-mail me, and maybe we can see what you could do to help out.

 

[homerthegreat]

Freewebs is bad. http://6te.net is good. They host me and friend's site, fadge - http://fadge.6te.net