Website for Easy Budgeting

If you have the resources maybe add a flash video with screenshots and reasons why to sign-up for the site. Smooth design good logo. The 'I Can Swing it' seems a little simple and maybe could be stronger. This site is good in a time where money can be tight and people need to smarten up with budgeting.

The gray it's not your background and menu color. The meaning of gray in web is coolness, depression. I think your objective is on the contrary.

Bad glow in the diagram. There is no logic for the different sizes of the two buttons. It's disturbing. You have mistaken the colors too. The red is the stronger color who grabs people's attention. So "Sign Up Today" must be in red.

"Can I swing it is for YOU" - green it's not the color. You should change it or change the color of the gradient behind it.

You have big problems with typography and alignment. Bad text contrast. I recommend you to visit http://www.thegridsystem.org/ | http://960.gs/ and http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/principles-beautiful-web-design

There is detailed explanation about this principles of web design.

There are a lot of point on the right hand side of the main call to action box. You could slim them down so they are easier to scan, and catchier.

Also you colour palette could do with some revision like Peter said.

Have you ever checked out; http://kuler.adobe.com/#themes/rating?time=30 for colour palette ideas?

The images in the 3rd and 4th rows need a bit of tlc so they don't look like they have been left there by mistake.

Overall though you have done a great job and the site is similar in function to this cluttered UK site.

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/

God luck with the revisions.

I think home page/landing page should be simplified whenever possible so I would definitely go for option 2 or 3. Option 2 offers more contrast, so I'd go for that one.

Not sure what your main objective is in terms of following but I would re-order the footer: blog first, connect icon second and twitter third.

I think Sign Up today in red and Learn more in green (darker than on 3rd design though) is more striking and effective.

You did use the last feedback.

The new layout is lot better. IN the first design I liked the clear top header. However the grey in the background is making the site look heavy. Get rid of it keep it plain white, it would look good.

Stick to this current content position as its nice. Work on this:

1. The content seems to have too many boxes. Remove them, keep it plain. Add a rectangle border for the images in that section, so it feels consistent. And also try to work on those images, so they have same colour intensity.

2. The footer is too dark. Get rid of its background, keep it plain.

3. In the section below menu, below the "signup" button, there is a grey bar, which feels unnatural there. Keep it plain, and give some contrast to its background to make that entire thing pop out from the design. This will help improve this section, and keeping other things simpler will balance the layout.

Your moving in the right direction here. Just concentrate on make this simpler, cleaner and less segmented. The segmentation on this site is really breaking things up. Try to make it flow better.