New Beautiful Design for AskAny.com

AskAny

AskAny is a question and answer site. Some users sign up and create a page about any topic they like. It could be what they are an expert at, or their job, or a hobby, or anything. Then other users can go to that page and ask them questions. Target audience is very broad. Users will be generally more outgoing and open to sharing than the average.

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You can see my current (engineer-created) design. I like the logo and have had no complaints about that. But I have had many people tell me the design "needs to be better." When I ask for specifics, I get few responses. People don't like it, but they can't tell me what they would like better.
I need something that looks 2016 and professional. Keep the logo, but forget about the banner image and colors as I don't care about those.

Give me a front page design (https://askany.com) and a topic page design (https://askany.com/macmost/ or https://askany.com/corgilover/ or https://askany.com/GetOutOfHellFree/ as examples). The rest of the pages would be just settings and forms that would be derived from the topic page design.

I like the current design. But no one else seems to. So I don't think I can help much here. I will be putting the best designs in front of other eyes for feedback.

I do not want html/css. I just want a design. I will implement the html/css. So just work in Photoshop or whatever you like. Hopefully that makes it much easier for you. Stick to standard fonts or Google's Open web fonts for text.