Thank you all for your feedback. Your concerns are well-founded and have considerable merit. No offense taken on the criticism. My students are taught to take constructive criticism as positive as possible.
Accepting this work because it was pro-bono is neither fair to you, the student, or your audience. If it’s not appropriate, it’s not appropriate, and that’s ok.
I think this experience, collectively, has at the very least enabled constructive conversations on how to proceed forward with any major branding/logo and website design initiatives – clearly, it must be a more concentrated, collaborative group effort with approval from the entire group, not just a committee or officers, etc.
@Ben – I don’t hate you. Thank you for the very specific feedback – I wish more clients gave me details like this.
@Susie – the logo was built first and the site was built second, but isn’t fully fleshed out as we needed feedback on composition, layout, navigation, etc.It is a WordPress site using a free WordPress theme. While this is less than ideal, I would encourage the group to seek out premium-quality themes, other design assets to use that, while they may cost something, will eliminate the basic WordPress look and feel. Thank you for your detailed feedback.