'Keto Pro Athlete' needs a new website! (Health & Fitness)

Keto Pro Athlete

Hi, I am starting a new website call 'Keto Pro Athlete' and would like to get a sophisticated, sleek and modern web designs. The main page will be an information based blog and provide diet and exercise information to the target audience. The audience will be ketogenic based athletes looking to obtain superior health and fitness performance. The website will be based off wordpress.

Key features of the design include:

1. WEBSITE INFO - the name is "Keto Pro Athlete". Ketosis is a high fat diet and the pro athlete/fitness audience is the target market the blog is seeking to cater towards. The website is aimed at increase the athletic performance by providing professional and sophisticated information re the diet.

2. CATEGORY - health and fitness

3. MAIN PAGE - I have provided a preferred layout in the attachments. This is the initial design concept that I like and have designed myself. I'm looking for improvements on this as this will be the main page that visitors will first see and navigate from. Must haves include the: the banner with logo (still be designed), the slider/featured posts section, the blog listing and the sidebar. The main components required in the side bar are: search, social, subscribe, archive and categories

4. BLOG PAGE - The blog page will be the other page requiring designing. I am open to how this is to be displayed and have not provided a sample preferred layout. Your design ideas and expertise would be appreciated here!

5. FONT & COLOURS - the website is positioned to be sophisticated and mature so I have provided examples of spacing and the colour palette that I would like (golds, black and whites etc).

I will be hiring a web developer initially and then will make adjustments myself - so any designs that can be catered for via wordpress widgets would be preferred i.e. easy to manage and setup.

A good design will result in more work in the near future as the website/products ares developed further.

Thank you
Roh

Please see attachments below for an example of the preferred layout of the website Main Page. I have also provided some sample designs I like re the Main Page and Blog Page

Here are some other websites which you can draw inspiration from:

http://gooyaabitemplates.com/livepr…/everyday/
http://gooyaabitemplates.com/livepr…obin-blog/
https://photohall-elyza1.blogspot.com.au/
http://brakt-demo4.blogspot.com.au/
http://preview.themeforest.net/item…w/19496857
http://preview.themeforest.net/item…w/19822142

MAIN PAGE - I have provided a preferred layout in the attachments. This is the initial design concept that I like and have designed myself. I'm looking for improvements on this as this will be the main page that visitors will first see and navigate from. Must haves include the: the banner with logo (still be designed), the slider/featured posts section, the blog listing and the sidebar. The main components required in the side bar are: search, social, subscribe, archive and categories

BLOG PAGE - The blog page will be the other page requiring designing. I am open to how this is to be displayed and have not provided a sample preferred layout. Your design ideas and expertise would be appreciated here! Obviously consistency with the main page is important including the sidebar

Design Features for the Main Page that may be considered:
Hover/Highlight Buttons
Theme = Gold & Black, Premium
Transitions as page goes down
Shadows - not flat on the page so images stand out

Design Features for the Blog Page:
Popular Posts
Labels/Categories
Drop downs
Buttons light up
Shadows - not flat on the page, stand out