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First i would bet my house on it that SEOMoz is totally built from scratch.

Second - Of course is not hard coded i suppose there is a framework to ease the process of building stuff ex: Zend Framework.

A framework would make it easier and cleaner for building scalable website solutions.

Third - I don't think a website no matter what type it is needs all the vBulletin complete forum solution. I think you would need certain forum features as you want to connect a user though the entire website so he does not have to register 10 x times.

If your entire system (office) is .net i suggest create a common bridge ex: database and let the online stuff work with php ... and keep your system asp.

It's only my view. Again i can be wrong.

If you have 10 offshore developers working for you why are you looking for ready made solutions that are going to mess up your life :). 10 developers working full time on 1 site can finish your project fully within 1 month. Put 3 developers working on each major feature and you will see how feature by feature pops out.

I disagree.

Getting wordpress and building or buying plugins is not the way to go. At lease not the cleanest in my opinion. If something happens and you want to extend the functionality or to tweek existing one you'll have very very hard time doing that.

I suggest build Everything from scratch. You should get away for €15.000 - €25.000 and should be sorted within 6 months. This in my opinion is a fair price.

What you can do starting now and is free is doing all the structuring & features you want for your website to have. That is a good starting point no matter what options you choose.

Now that's a price :).

There is nothing better than something you build yourself (or other design/dev teams build it for you but it's all connected and custom)

If you go for different ready made options a lot of them will have different structure, users would be different from forum -> blog -> community.

My suggestion is if you plan on extending that far to think of a platform for your business  that will have the forum/community/blog & user interface connected and serving better the type of business you're in.

Awesome. Thanks guys for the best feedback so far

As you may know doing the website yourself you kind of miss these things as there a lot of things to cover when going though the entire process on your own.

(p.s.. did the website all by myself design + functionality)

Thanks again for the good feedback.

Good point. The free consultation being one of the main points we need to highlight on the site.

It's not about being a designer is about keeping a balance.

Look at other websites (good websites) and understand what they make in terms of layout / color / text

No need to be a graphic genius to make your website pleasant.

I spent 5 min on html css for you ... hope it helps

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I think this explains it all.

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/es/ or /es is up to you has no real difference just decide on one and keep the same link through the whole website.

/es is good for users ex: spanish users will want to look for your website and they would know /es is in spanish  (after they have viewed your website and found that you have a spanish version).   Is good for seo to keep url simple and easy.   /es better than principal.html

What is the point of a huge page with tons of content if nobody reads it. In my opinion a content is marked as good if people who lands on your page read it.

A good landing page is one that would make you want to read it. I left your page in less than 10 seconds. That means your Bounce rate will be high => Bad Signal for landing page

A good idea is to improve overall look (layout). Make it more attractive.

Just one of the things i spotted.

First of all i think it would be better to have an url like   domain.com/es/

if you have different languages.

It would be ideal to hire someone who is fluent in Spanish as software translation does not sound right.

Hope it helps.

With a new site comes new challenges.

We have recently finished one of our clients websites in the Retirement (financial) field.

www.retirementireland.ie

In my opinion the site is looking good, fast loading(very little js, optimized images) and good SEO structuring.

As being a new site i feel like the decisions taken now are crucial. If SEO is  done properly could save a lot of time. If not would take us a while until we get  1-5 positions for retirement, retirement options, retirement planning, retirement ireland.

Any thoughts on existing design / structure / content.

Any extra suggestions are welcome.

I usually guide my clients based on this.  Check  Perfect Keyword Targeting & On-Page Optimization

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/perfecting-keyword-targeting-on-page-optimization

I personally think that font size does not affect SEO. Rather the right size, spacing of the words and the type of font would count for your clients staying and reading your website (bounce rate) that affects SEO.

It has no SEO effect if you keep your naming identical and in wordpress add .html  so keeping the same url structure and naming. The extension is not taken in consideration. However if you move from  /page.html to  /page (no extension) it will be considered as a new page. So what you have to do is a 301 redirect from .html to /page...  manually first and then if you have all your pages without extension just create a htaccess to redirect all pages from .html to no extension.

Hope it helps. Let me know if you have any questions.