[PseudoRoots]

Did my first web site for a friends restaurant. It's the first finished web design I've ever done. I could use some feedback as I'm rather paranoid that I've missed something.

http://pomodoros.com...ting/index.html

Things I've noticed and could use some help on

- I've noticed that my "recent tweets" box only seems to sometimes load the tweets as list items. It occasionally loads nothing at all which worries me.

- The first time I visited the hosted site no images, css, or javascript were loaded... hopefully it was a one time server error thing but I have no ghastly idea.

- In some browsers the web fonts I'm using won't anti-alias.

- In IE 8 I've noticed that if you hit the cancel button on the popup email form the surrounding fonts on that page will get really jagged and dark. It seems to only be in IE8 and I have absolutely no idea why.

- Worried about the size of some of the images...

- And just to finish of this wall of text... He's hosting the site with some company called Verio and one thing I've noticed is that he seems to be using two different domain names (I'm a newby at this stuff so far). the admin login page, control panel, and mail server all seem to be located at pomodoroscafe.net while the hosted page with my content somehow ends up on pomodoros.com. Which is fine it's just that occasionally while navigating through my pages I'll randomly get redirected back to the .net domain. I really have no idea how this seems to be setup so any input could be helpful here.

Thanks in advance!

P.S. I'm new here, hey.

[francine87]

Personally, not a huge fan of their logo- but that might not be up to you eh?

Overall it's a really professional looking website with a nice color palette and smooth transitions! However, it doesn't scream Italian cafe when you arrive on the landing page for me. Perhaps adding high quality image(s) of food from the cafe in the slide show on home page could help it feel a little less corporate?

[Samus]

For a first design?

Really good job.

[Renaissance-Design]

Samus, on 08 January 2012 - 10:11 PM, said:

For a first design?

Really good job.

This.

[kree8or]

Good job, but one critisim, its a resturant right, what do people go to resturants for? Food. Where are the pictures of the food?

[Renaissance-Design]

kree8or, on 08 January 2012 - 10:34 PM, said:

Good job, but one critisim, its a resturant right, what do people go to resturants for? Food. Where are the pictures of the food?

One or two, yeah. But far outweighed by the achievement of having a menu in HTML one click from the homepage. Too many restaurants don't have that.

[kree8or]

Renaissance-Design, on 08 January 2012 - 11:01 PM, said:

One or two, yeah. But far outweighed by the achievement of having a menu in HTML one click from the homepage. Too many restaurants don't have that.

Yeah most just scan in the menu and put it up. lazy, lazy, lazy.

[KCooper]

Renaissance-Design, on 08 January 2012 - 11:01 PM, said:

One or two, yeah. But far outweighed by the achievement of having a menu in HTML one click from the homepage. Too many restaurants don't have that.

Seconded!

Its a nice, clean looking site. I agree with what's been said though, its not instantly obviously what the site is for. As a minor change, if the initial image in the slider was of an item of food from the restaurant, that would help rectify this.

[luizarios]

KCooper, on 08 January 2012 - 11:28 PM, said:

Seconded!

Its a nice, clean looking site. I agree with what's been said though, its not instantly obviously what the site is for. As a minor change, if the initial image in the slider was of an item of food from the restaurant, that would help rectify this.

nice site, not queen on the logo either, it makes me think or hairdresser rather than italian food but that's just a personal opinion, a lot of people might like it

I agree with Kcooper, if you add a picture of food then you resolve the problem of not knowing what the business does.

[PseudoRoots]

francine87, on 08 January 2012 - 10:02 PM, said:

Personally, not a huge fan of their logo- but that might not be up to you eh?

Overall it's a really professional looking website with a nice color palette and smooth transitions! However, it doesn't scream Italian cafe when you arrive on the landing page for me. Perhaps adding high quality image(s) of food from the cafe in the slide show on home page could help it feel a little less corporate?

Yeah the logo wasn't up to me... And I know nothing about logo design so I'm not about to redo it. I'd add images of his food but he doesn't have any. Since I did the site for free (it was really just a learning experience for me) I'm not about to buy stock photos. I do however have some pretty nice photos of the restaurants interior maybe adding one of those as the first slide could help a bit?

[Ben Evans]

Pretty bloody good for your first site!

I would put some images on the homepage to illustrate the 'our food', 'our home' and 'our story' boxes. That should make it a bit more sticky.

I love the contact form where ever you got that from!

I have that exact same problem with the twitter widget, might be best to find another one.

The red zigzag footer edge is a bit blurred.

I don't think you can do much about the font not anti aliasing. Maybe play around with some text-shadow: 0px 0px 1px #444; but that never looks all that great.

It never seems to go to the .net url for me