Have a look at the BBC website bbc.co.uk, very simple design but well spaced & arranged. Make something similar (but maintain your brand colors) while avoiding at all costs plagiarism. Simplicity is the best option. Settle on modern technologies and avoid mixing up (i.e use HTML5 and CSS3 elements that are supported by major  browsers). Avoid Flash and Java Applets.

Think API (or modern day web development)
Adopt a pattern of building front-ends as static clients and one RESTful JSON API in the backend. 

Regards,
Joseph.

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
Very Bland design: It's a media house designs, should focus on media and keeping me on the site consuming more media. Yeah, have a look at the BBC websites, including the sub-sites for its television and radio stations.
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