Technology Learning 2 Web Design

I am finding through tweaking our website here and there that simple is definitely better. The Lynda tutorials mentioned that this is the case, but I am really finding that it's true now that I work with wordpress.com.  Our group was deciding on what to put as our home page picture and our background, and I thought that keeping the background as a solid color along with a homepage picture is the simplest most "professional-looking" way to make the home page. If we had chosen to make a busy background along with a picture for a homepage, it would be too distracting and hard to find a focal point on the page. This is what a lot of websites do wrong that makes them seem unprofessional. They are far too busy and this makes it too difficult to find that main focus of the homepage and to work from there.