Café website

Trojan

Hi folks,

I'm looking for feedback on thecozynookcafe.com. Disclosure: it was built as a demo site, not a commercial site.

I'm interested to know what you reckon is missing or needs improvement, from two perspectives: on a very tight budget, and on an unlimited budget.

(I know this isn't a typical site review request, but I hope it sparks some interesting discussion.)

Cheers,
Alastair.

Squeeonline

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Randomly bolded text is annoying

header image is obviously stretched and not a great resolution.

Header is far too big especially as it's that size on every page, not just the front page.

Menu is duplicated at both top of the page and then as a ribbon. One or the other, not both.

Menu is in dollars.

Since you are using the entire right hand column for just social networking, a jpg image of a map that links to a google map/open street map might be good.

I'm pretty sure you don't need even 4 pages for the content. About should be on the front page. No one will really care about the history of the cafe unless it's really famous and the text mainly repeats information elsewhere.

A small contact form could be included in the right column and then delete contact page.

If you keep everything to the one page, it will be a lot neater and cleaner. Consider a one page layout theme, where menu buttons link to IDs (#).

Also interesting that you advertise a web design & consultancy business in your sig yet are making rookie errors and bad decisions on this project.

KonFusion

I'll try not to repeat what Squeeonline has already mentioned.

You've no h1 :eek: (Yes the value of having a h1 for SEO purposes can be debated, but it just doesn't feel right to not have one)

Twitter feed in the empty space in the sidebar could be nice.

Some pictures of the menu items would be nice.

Whats with the randomly bolded text?

Gutter/margin between the image and text on home page looks a little off. It'd probably look better if the right margin on the text was equal to the left margin

Trojan

Thanks, both of you, for the feedback.

I'm in two minds as to whether to make the improvements or not - if I do make changes, it's not correct to say it was built within that time frame.

What I might do is clone it and make the improvements on the clone, to demonstrate how it could be done.

OneIdea

Trojan wrote: »

I'm interested to know what you reckon is missing or needs improvement, from two perspectives: on a very tight budget, and on an unlimited budget.

Sorry I'm lost, I don't understand your question. Its a wordpress site, right? so whats the question again?

Trojan

It is a WordPress site. That question is pretty clear - if you had a tight budget what would you improve, and if you had an unlimited budget, what would you improve?

OneIdea

Again sorry, we(I) must be looking at your question from a different perspective... wordpress write-copy/paste content, download plugins, copy/paste... no budget required?

Themes however that's a different story, but again I pay/download and install, from a few euro-hundred.

If your a website service provider, I would assume you would charge per install and addons, which would be displayed somewhere on your service provider site... from a basic site - whatever.

To me the content of any site speaks for itself and irrelevant to your question?... its the look and functionality etc..., in this case I would consider this site to be the very basic, which is fine, if its what I had paid for.