Re: restaurant site

Brian wrote:

website for T.S. McHugh's Restaurant and Pub (Seattle, WA, US)
http://www.tsmchughs.com/

In my IE6, the green background of the menu cuts off after "help" then when
I hover over "help", the background of the menu extends, in green, to below
the page height, and I get a vertical scrollbar (I view in 1024x768). When
I hover over any of the other links, the menu goes back to how it was.

There's a lot of white space on most of the pages so it looks a bit empty -
maybe try to use that yellow colour some more? It goes well with the green,
IMO. The picture on the front page needs to be resized better - in your
graphics application, when resizing choose something like bilinear, bicubic
or "smart size" - this will make the smaller image look clearer (see the
beer shingles outside - they looked squashed).

If it's an Irish-themed pub, then I want to see the Irish theme! Show some
pictures of the interior and even some pictures of the food, if possible.
For instance, when I clicked on "draughts" on the front page, I expected to
see the bar with happy staff standing there, serving me 22 ice cold pints on
a warm summer's day, and instead I get a list. Knowing the price of things
is good, but I think less emphasis has to be put on financial matters in
favour of getting the customers into the establishment to begin with.

I hope some of this is of use to you.

--
Andrew Cameron
"Got my hand on my heart, I know no better location..."

Brian wrote:

Andrew Cameron wrote:
Brian wrote:

website for T.S. McHugh's Restaurant and Pub (Seattle, WA, US)
http://www.tsmchughs.com/

then when I hover over "help", the background of the menu extends,
in green, to below the page height, and I get a vertical scrollbar
(I view in 1024x768). When I hover over any of the other links, the
menu goes back to how it was.

Ok, that's weird. I'll have to work on this in a place where I have
IE6/Win. (I have IE 5.0/Win on my dev machine.)

I took some screenshots to let you see. When I hover over "help":
<http://dumpage.net/tsm/tsm1.jpg> and when I hover over any other link on
the menu: <http://dumpage.net/tsm/tsm2.jpg>.

Show some pictures of the interior and even some pictures of the
food, if possible.

I wanted to do that, but I don't live in Seattle. I asked for photos,
hoping for lots; I got 3, one of which you see on the home page. ;-)

Ah, I see. I've had that before and it's very, very annoying.

I did get a picture of the bar. I put it up for the heck of it, but
orphaned the page because it's really a lousy picture, imho.

http://www.tsmchughs.com/bar/

It looks really nice, but you're right about it being a lousy picture. I
think a shot of the bar, taken from the same perspective as the front page
outside shot, and a picture of the building taken from the front would be
nicer. Easier to work into a site too, IMO. Also, people would be good -
right now it seems that if I visited, I'd be the only person there! :-)

--
Andrew Cameron
"Got my hand on my heart, I know no better location..."