Did Some Revamping, need some opinions PLZ :-)

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So, No matter what WP theme I chose or how What I did to any of the editor settings for Buscarent.us, it would NOT allow my content to display full width like it originally was, keeping it centered (much to my chegrin) - so after much hair pulling I decieded to shelf it for a minute and start a new one from scratch, and made some tweaks to homesconfirmed.com


So Please let me know, which of these 2 designs is best, Opinions and constructive criticism invited and appreciated!

www.NotRent.com VS www.HomesConfirmed.com

Thanks guys
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  • Profile picture of the author Clarence Chan
    I'd definitely vote for NOTRent.com - Home

    Layout looked better and a lot cleaner to look at.

    Things you might need to change:

    - You might consider on improving your logo.
    - Change the housing image under "Get access to listings" button with a better quality image.
    - Lessen the gaps between the headings & paragraphs. Including the content feeds at the bottom, there seems to be a huge gap from the featured images to its content.
    - Better to use a different font for the body texts instead of using Times New Roman. You can use google fonts for free if you'd like.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ace OfAllMedia
      Originally Posted by Clarence Chan View Post

      I'd definitely vote for NOTRent.com - Home

      Layout looked better and a lot cleaner to look at.

      Things you might need to change:

      - You might consider on improving your logo.
      - Change the housing image under "Get access to listings" button with a better quality image.
      - Lessen the gaps between the headings & paragraphs. Including the content feeds at the bottom, there seems to be a huge gap from the featured images to its content.
      - Better to use a different font for the body texts instead of using Times New Roman. You can use google fonts for free if you'd like.
      All Dually noted - honestly I was planning on getting a logo made anyway....That was literally something I threw together in less than 2 min in Paint lol (yes I really did just admit that lol) Thanks..
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanormrod
    Hello,

    I definitely do not prefer one over the other.

    I would focus on creating a new logo
    Choosing an appropriate font.
    Learn about font sizing, if you input your base font size here Modularscale you can get a list of font sizes that will work together. Keep title sizes larger than the body text!
    Learn about spacing.
    Use buttons instead of huge font sizes on blue links.
    Please get somebody do design your infographics.
    Choose better quality imagery to express the business in a positive view.

    Absolutely nobody is going to take either of those sites seriously. If this is serious, please hire a developer and a designer. If I'm being perfectly honest (which I am), I feel like you're 16 years behind the internet in terms of design complexity. I remember when those kind of sites were the norm!
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  • Profile picture of the author Ace OfAllMedia
    SOME Website Builders are definitely a good tool - but you have to selective about which one you use (and I don't mean pick the one with the prettiests templates)... the overwhelming majority of them are not portable and will not give you access to your site code if you ever outgrow their platform, which if you gain any sort of real traffic and your business is at all successful, you inevitably will, which means you would be building your website all over again from scratch one day, and (by reasoning of why you out grew the old one anyway) it would be at a time when you're WAY too busy to even think about that..

    A LOT of them nickel and dime you for essentials, basically forcing you to their top tier plan. Some of them require top tier plan in order to even add Google Analytics, embed code, or link to your google webmaster (now Search Console)..

    The only ones that I know for certain have "portable" qualities are:

    Weebly - Will allow you to download and export all your site code and files and (although it's a pain) it CAN be translated to WordPress

    BoldGrid It's only available through Inmotion and WebHostingPad, it's actually built on top of WordPress

    Simbala really awesome, has database included as a feature (transferable to sql) and it's built on BootStrap HTML5 / CSS (the most versatile options available)

    IMXPRS although it really doesn't do much other than make something pretty really fast all in itself (very few inbuilt features/native integrations) it's extremely pluggable and can be migrated/integrated with WP and other platforms as well.

    I've "played around with" Web Starts before, and i remember there was something prohibitive about them that ultimately turned me off completely but I'm drawing a blank as to what it was (this was a couple years ago)... I do remember that their interface reminded me a lot of weebly's and that it was, for the most part, user friendly, but there was one major drawback..I'll have to check them out to refresh my memory lol - anyway, the ones I mentioned above I most certainly recommend
    ATTN: NO I'm not an affiliate of any of them, nor is there a link to any of those companies present in this post (Mods have gotten overzealous lately)

    Hope that helps!
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