Critique my gaming site

[SilentK]

I am using vbulletin and I designed the theme myself so any suggestions on how to improve on the theme and forum structure would be appreciated.

http://www.xblteams.com

[Kitchensink108]

Because the entire site is vBulletin, there's really not much to critique. The color scheme's decent. It's not bad, but there's nothing 'wow' about it.

[SilentK]

What would your suggestions be to make it 'wow'?

[Kitchensink108]

I'm not quite sure. Because it's vBulletin, you don't have a whole lot of freedom (at least very easily). I'm not saying that using anything else, like phpbb, is going to be better, I mean that by using a pre-made package, your options are limited.

[Olidivera]

Also, you say it's an xbox live forum right? Why is there only a picture of the Halo dude (dunno his name :p ) and why not some other xbox stuff?

[SilentK]

Well I could go in and add a bunch more xbox live game characters in but I felt that would make the logo too busy and that M.C. (the halo dude) was good enough as it is the flag ship live title.

[SilentK]

I put my frontpage back up (had to fix it since upgrading the vbulletin version broke it.) Any suggestions on how to improve it? I plan on adding skin system to it so it matches whatever forum style the person choose.

http://www.xblteams.com

[Hokietalk]

The Xbox Live Community looks good, the other is kind of plane.
Not sure what your doing.. but keep working at it and I sure it
will look good for both.

I hate when you try something diffrent and it don't work. grrrr...

Hokietalk

[SilentK]

I made the frontpage style to match the forums style. Tell me what you think.

http://www.xblteams.com

[Kitchensink108]

You might want to adjust the spacing of the boxes slightly, and make the contents of 'recent posts' and 'recent reviews' a smaller font-size, but other than that, I like the main page.