Hello,
It looks very pretty, though, on my screen it looks a bit crowded. 🙂
- It is nice you provided much information, however if I were you I'd shorten your texts almost everywhere. A shorten intro can be more effective, it should sum up your site's aim briefly. Also, use justified text to make everything look neater. 🙂
- I love the shade of gray you chose as main color. If I were you I wouldn't add so many side colors (list circle icons, "More..." text). As I can see your logo includes blue and some kind of yellow shades. Stick to them and your whole design will look more unified. 🙂
I think there's way too much info on it. You should try to work towards Diana's layout, keeping it simple is more likely to attract more attention, no one wants to read a massive paragraph when they happen to spot the footer.
Yes. Busy footers are a drag on a site especially on larger ones. Who even scrolls down to them? I go to a site and hit site search, but I generally know where I surf anyways.
I agree with it being a little too crowded. Maybe the bio could be shortened up and the social media buttons turned into their respective icons? Your site took longer to load too.