Please help. Developing a new website for a friend. Need ideas for design.

Hi there!

This is the site I want you to discuss:
http://francielle.arteterapiabarcelona.es/
(This is just my server, we haven't bought any domains yet)

I am trying to design and develop a female friend of mine website. She's a translator, so it will be multilingual. I don't have much coding experience as I normally use a CMS.
It doesn't look that good, I know. The idea was to have like two separate websites.

The "portal", the part I am developing right now. She liked the idea of a vintage typewriter integrated somehow. I am open to suggestions, specifically:​

• change background color?
• use photoshop to change image contrast, etc?
• label certain areas ?
• change the image?
• change everything and start from scratch? (please don't be harsh)
• anything else?

The site itself with data, rates, telephone... in plain HTML + CSS, something really clean and minimalistic, like this. http://www.tradumatica.net/carbajales/ES/inicio.html or http://pixelhaven.co/​

The idea was for her to get some work via SEO/SEM and have her portfolio online.

Any suggestions are very welcomed.
Thanks for your time.

I think the best way to make this website si using Wordpress.. it's easy to setup, there is a bunch of themes, you can just edit it, add the content and so on.. you can check here : http://www.template4all.com or http://www.web2feel.com there is a bunch of themes that you can choose from and most of the are FREE TO USE and to modify...

Then create a categories, add a languages widget... plus she can write the articles by her self.. i hope that help !

I do know how to use Wordpress, but I wanted to use it for the "main site". I don't know how to make the main menu clickable. http://francielle.arteterapiabarcelona.es/ I haven't found any theme so far that would let me do that

My suggestion is you can start from scratch by approaching web development companies like Agriya, so that you can easily get ready with your site by providing the requirement.