restaurant website crit please 99 Responses

Last post: 6 months, 2 weeks ago | Thread started: Feb 18, 08, 10:56 p.m.

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• bigtrick

  http://www.springrestaurant.net/…

  don't hold back folks. i feel like it's almost there, but the typography on the right side feels clumsy. it's supposed to be a high-end restaurant site, so expensive, polished, sumptuous is the aura that the site is supposed to wear. can anyone give me any criticism that will help me make the site better? pweeeease?

  <3,
  bigtrick

  Feb 18, 08, 10:56 p.m. – Permalink

• MrOneHundred

  AAARRGGHHH.

  Sorry. You have a foot mark in the word “Valentine’s” instead of an apostrophe.

  • I should have said something positive. Colour palette rocks.– MrOneHundred1/2

    like i said, don't hold back ;) thx for the tip - though i should prob. take the vday announcement down anyway.– bigtrick2/2

  

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  Dog-earFeb 18, 08, 11:02 p.m. – Permalink

• utopian

  Color palette very nice, I am having problems with the size and readability of the type, needs larger type and spacing. The menu/nav gets lost in the layout as well. You need to separate the menu/nav from the content and make it larger.

  Remember that "less is more", good start BIGTRICK...

  • THANKS for the suggestions! i think you're right that the font is too small and could do with more spacing, but i am worried about causing excessive scroll. i guess that's inevitable anyway, eh?– bigtrick

  

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  Dog-earFeb 18, 08, 11:03 p.m. – Permalink

• utopian

  Check out Starr Restaurants, links to about 12 websites that he owns, pretty nice sites.

  http://www.starr-restaurant.com

  

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  Dog-earFeb 18, 08, 11:09 p.m. – Permalink

• uncle_helv

  Not my cup of tea, took me a minute or so to find the navigation, don't really like the 'S' logo/mark/flower thing.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 18, 08, 11:22 p.m. – Permalink

• joelski

  we just did thebentley.com.au

  • wow... that's a beautiful site joelski. well done.– bigtrick1/3

    Nice site but I just broke it within about 1 minute?– WhiteFace2/3

    The menus are still reactive to mouse rollover/out, but once clicked do nothing?– WhiteFace3/3

  

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  Dog-earFeb 18, 08, 11:22 p.m. – Permalink

• mistermik

  more type styles are needed.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 08, 1:47 a.m. – Permalink

• roundabout

  Layout a bit all over the place?

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 08, 5:43 a.m. – Permalink

• vwsung18t

  it took me awhile to find the navigation as well.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 08, 5:46 a.m. – Permalink

• Fariska

  Uhm.... sorry but it looks bad and it communicates badly.
  The colour palette is really ok, but as others said the nav is hard to find, too many typefaces, and i feel the whole site totally unbalanced.
  I understand your idea of integrating textboxes with big images, but i don't think that the green to trasp gradient really works, especially upwards. And the cropping of the images doesn't work at all, you are losing important details there, and when there is the content text box the "text-images" integration is wrong.
  And on the content box often there is too much withespace...

  On the brighter side, i like the route you're going. Pay more attention to the images, work on the overall balance and reduce the number of typefaces.
  Good luck!

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 08, 5:57 a.m. – Permalink