Baltazar.it

**magnaromagna** · 04-23-2007 04:42 PM

Hi,
finally I moved my community into the new domain:
Baltazar.it :: Video, notizie, viaggi e ristoranti (talks about crazy video, strange news, travels, italian restaurants, recipes...)
Please critique!

p.s. Almost finished, missing only photopost on forum home and... the logo! If you have any ideas you are welcome

**magnaromagna** · 05-13-2007 07:50 AM

header and simple logo made. What do you think about?
Thanks

**magnaromagna** · 06-30-2007 11:52 AM

up

just changed adsense implementation, critique please!

**magnaromagna** · 12-07-2007 04:31 AM

change the templates, I think this is quicker. Please criticize

**Joe Ward** · 12-07-2007 08:36 AM

A few suggestions:

- I think the smilie graphics next to each forum are distracting. I think you would do better with either photo realistic thumbnails, or other theme icons that are not smilies.
- I would invest in a logo. For $30-$50 you can have something interesting done.
- I don't like the banner ad placement at the top. Because your logo is plain, it focused all the attention to it, and it's not aesthetically pleasing.
- You might want to come up with a tagline for you site.

This review is for your "solido" style.

**magnaromagna** · 12-07-2007 09:19 AM

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

A few suggestions:

- I think the smilie graphics next to each forum are distracting. I think you would do better with either photo realistic thumbnails, or other theme icons that are not smilies.
- I would invest in a logo. For $30-$50 you can have something interesting done.
- I don't like the banner ad placement at the top. Because your logo is plain, it focused all the attention to it, and it's not aesthetically pleasing.
- You might want to come up with a tagline for you site.

This review is for your "solido" style.

Thanks for suggestions. I will work on 1 and 2 soon. About the ad banner in the logo: do you mean that users watch the banner and not "remember" the name of the forum? Do you think is better a text ads until the logo is ready?
Thanks again

**Joe Ward** · 12-07-2007 11:24 AM

Check your revenue stats. If you are doing well with the graphical banner, then keep it.

If not, let I recommend just making your site look better, and letting the AdSense ads in the rest of the page do their job. You can always change this around and try new strategies.

I think that if you complete an actual logo, rather than just a text logo, people will take your forum more serious and you should get better participation and member conversion.