Help newbie with design?

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Hey guys I have been working on this for about a month now and there are a lot of minor issues but I was hoping to get some input on the main design here.
Im not a web designer, I just got my first wordpress in may so its not great.

Thanks in advance.

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  • Profile picture of the author Nabaleka
    I like it, from the top is ok, please strive to finish the rest
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    • Profile picture of the author Insanerb25
      Originally Posted by Nabaleka View Post

      I like it, from the top is ok, please strive to finish the rest
      Im trying, its a lot more time intensive then I thought it would be but I cant wait for the finished product
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  • Profile picture of the author samuelbreezey
    Hey,

    It's not bad for being your first wordpress site.

    Did you install a theme? There are some great Drag & drop builders out there which will save you a lot of work and will probably be more beneficial to you. The reason why I say this is there is one slight problem in regards to the Learn, Build, Race & Maintain section. - The Build & Race part show some white spacing.

    All in all though it looks fine being your first project.

    I enjoy learning and designing websites and this is all part of the process. I remember my first website and my god how I would CRINGE at it seeing it now lool

    - Sam
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    • Profile picture of the author Insanerb25
      Originally Posted by samuelbreezey View Post

      Hey,

      It's not bad for being your first wordpress site.

      Did you install a theme? There are some great Drag & drop builders out there which will save you a lot of work and will probably be more beneficial to you. The reason why I say this is there is one slight problem in regards to the Learn, Build, Race & Maintain section. - The Build & Race part show some white spacing.

      All in all though it looks fine being your first project.

      I enjoy learning and designing websites and this is all part of the process. I remember my first website and my god how I would CRINGE at it seeing it now lool

      - Sam
      Thanks yeah I am using the terreract theme from tyler.com and I followed his tutorial for the beginning part of it. Yeah I think my biggest issue is when things resize...
      But Im glad its not horrible!
      For building it, I use pagebuilder are there any other good ones?
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      • Profile picture of the author samuelbreezey
        Originally Posted by Insanerb25 View Post

        Thanks yeah I am using the terreract theme from tyler.com and I followed his tutorial for the beginning part of it. Yeah I think my biggest issue is when things resize...
        But Im glad its not horrible!
        For building it, I use pagebuilder are there any other good ones?
        I use the Ultra theme with my wordpress websites from themify.

        They use their own builder platform which I find easy to use. I did install a theme called West which uses pagebuilder I believe on another site of mine but I will probably end up installing my Ultra theme on this as well.

        - Sam
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    • Profile picture of the author Insanerb25
      Originally Posted by samuelbreezey View Post

      Hey,

      It's not bad for being your first wordpress site.

      Did you install a theme? There are some great Drag & drop builders out there which will save you a lot of work and will probably be more beneficial to you. The reason why I say this is there is one slight problem in regards to the Learn, Build, Race & Maintain section. - The Build & Race part show some white spacing.

      All in all though it looks fine being your first project.

      I enjoy learning and designing websites and this is all part of the process. I remember my first website and my god how I would CRINGE at it seeing it now lool

      - Sam
      I found the solution, some quick css guides helped me ensure all rows are equal height, thank you for pointing that out. On my resolution they are all the same size, when you adjust resolution they would leave white lines!
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  • Hey,

    You design your first wordpress website then you can wordpress theme and free wordpress tool and plugins.
    WordPress is an open-source and free content management system (CMS). Many templates, SEO plugins made in WordPress and available easily.
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    • Profile picture of the author Insanerb25
      Originally Posted by servicesfromindia View Post

      Hey,

      You design your first wordpress website then you can wordpress theme and free wordpress tool and plugins.
      WordPress is an open-source and free content management system (CMS). Many templates, SEO plugins made in WordPress and available easily.
      For SEO plugin I used Yoast and then I am using a seperate XML sitemap because yoast was giving me issues with deleted pages in sitemap
      Save
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  • In this theme from top to bottom every thing has been disturb, nothing is on its place. Please follow these given points to make your website effective.

    There are a lot of changes needs to be done on this website. If client is not a designer he needs to follow the steps to make it attractive and useful.

    1.Before removing any content save the original theme, do change in copied theme. 2.Choose theme that meets your requirement and content.

    3.Do not do changes in theme’s design. Just change its content as per your requirement such as heading, paragraph, front and background image.

    4.Before replacing an image see its height and width, and replace it with same height and width images otherwise you will have to make changes in CSS.

    5.While theme was designed its heading were fixed also. So use approx. no of text in heading. More text will break the line and disturb whole division.

    6.Glyphicon and image both are different thing. We can not replace them with each other.

    7.Make sure to put heading text in <h..></h..> and paragraph in <p>.

    8. There is no need to place same social media icon next to each other.
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  • Profile picture of the author DenniseTan
    Hi.
    I like the top part of your website but when I scrolled down, it looked a bit cluttered. There's text all over. What I suggest is that you stick to only 2-3 types of font. Add a bit of graphics to your website so that it won't look boring.
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    • Profile picture of the author Insanerb25
      Originally Posted by DenniseTan View Post

      Hi.
      I like the top part of your website but when I scrolled down, it looked a bit cluttered. There's text all over. What I suggest is that you stick to only 2-3 types of font. Add a bit of graphics to your website so that it won't look boring.
      Okay thanks, ill remove the extra fonts and stick with 2.
      Ill work on the graphics, thank you for the constructives.
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    • Profile picture of the author Insanerb25
      Originally Posted by DenniseTan View Post

      Hi.
      I like the top part of your website but when I scrolled down, it looked a bit cluttered. There's text all over. What I suggest is that you stick to only 2-3 types of font. Add a bit of graphics to your website so that it won't look boring.

      Okay I redesigned to 3 types of font (I want the site stats to be bolded a bit more for now)
      Added in a few little extra graphics but will definitely work on adding better ones. Thank you for your input
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  • Profile picture of the author bizacquire
    I like your idea, but yeah...your website not very nice looking.
    my advise:
    1. Please use smaller font on middle page
    2. Please use fresh color but contrast with your font color so will be nice looking.
    3. Your social profile seems to big, better to smaller.

    just my 2 cent advice
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    • Profile picture of the author Insanerb25
      Originally Posted by bizacquire View Post

      I like your idea, but yeah...your website not very nice looking.
      my advise:
      1. Please use smaller font on middle page
      2. Please use fresh color but contrast with your font color so will be nice looking.
      3. Your social profile seems to big, better to smaller.

      just my 2 cent advice
      Thanks, I removed the big social profiles because the smaller ones are there, thinking of adding bottons for share.
      Looked up some color patterns and will definetly work on it.
      Changed the font to a smaller and more responsive size, after you said this I was thinking about why it doesnt look big to me. I have a very large resolution and the text was not responsive, I have been veiwing my site in different resolutions now because of your help THANKS A TON!
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  • Profile picture of the author johnben1444
    There are lots of resources on Google and YouTube to help you make a good Wordpress site.

    You weren't elaborate enough on the issues that is presently confronting you but hey, it's the way we all started..

    Good luck..
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  • Profile picture of the author Nauman K
    Bro,
    From a designer prospective, you can improve your site. The top blue header and the footer color is not good as if you see the white links and the text, it can hardly be seen and read. Try use dark blue.
    At the bottom of the main image at the top, these images are not clear. Make it clear.
    Get a professional logo for your site. Change your icons to more suitable icons.

    Anyways, your first try is really good and you have definitely a good design sense..
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