Site redesign for restaurant

Well, I don't know.. I absolutely LOVE IT. Just one thing - The 3 tabs at the bottom of the 2nd image doesn't really fit, try to improve them.

I think it's pretty good aesthetically speaking, but I have a hard time deciding what to look at first. Nothing catches my eye.

What's good: 1) Nice photos. Photos will make or break a restaurant site 2) Good color palette.

A few suggestions: 1) Stick with one menu (didn't even see the one at the bottom at first). As well, the top menu could be larger. 2) The dining room looks nice, but I go to restaurants to eat. I want to see food 3) Optimize for what people are coming to the site for (menu, directions, etc)

Hi,

The opening page is really nice, I love the full width image with the elements overlays. The only issue I have is that the text "meditate. live purely" etc is a little lost, and could benefit from a transparent background like the elements below. The slider control text in the top right is rather hidden, could use a brighter font to let people know the sliders move.

The wood panelling background is a little too much and doesn't fit in well, especially with the grey sub navigation buttons at the bottom. If all the text is going to be on the left on the interior pages you could take a picture of a plate on a place mat with its knife and fork, glass etc next to it as in a restaurant and use this on the right. If they use nice table clothes then you could put that in to give the background on the left a little texture, but would aim towards a lighter background to make the restaurant seem brighter and more welcoming.

Good luck.

Here are few suggestions:

1. Make the text (content) of the website align in the center of the page. Left aligned pages are a thing of the past and now reflect old design,

2. In the black bar(right beneath the header), you have links in dark green color that's hardly noticeable. Try changing the color of the links to white so that it contrasts the black bar and appeals visually.

3. In the first screenshot, right above the footer, you have 3 images with their respective texts, try adding one more image with it's respective text so that it extends towards the right side of the page thus making it a complete appearance. Right now, it appears as though the the text has been cut off abruptly and gives a "missing" feeling.

4. Try and give some (top) padding to the footer. Try about 30px. The current text is way too towards the top of the footer.

5. A border to the images should do good. Try a 1px solid white border to the images and notice how well they look on them. It would really add to it considering that you have a contrasting brown background.

6. In screenshot 2, you have 3 black tabs. What are they and how do they work? Unless they are like AJAX accordions, I don't think they deserve their place there.

7. Try putting the search in the header rather than the footer. You want your visitors to be able to get to the search box easily and quickly.

8. Improve on the contrast of the links throughout the website.

Hope it helps.

I like the pictures and the whole ambience. But the home page seams to be a bit to "fluttery" and doesn't have cleare focus points. The text "meditate, live purely... etc." is difficult to read, because of the background. There ist also not enough contrast between the bacground and the menu. People with any kind of amblyopia will not be able to realise, that there is a menue

overall its a good concept..but i don't like the 3 grey tabs at the bottom, looks like they been thrown there. also i would take some time to work again on the footer and for the homepage in my opinion it need a focus point something to attract the user to want to see more.

The site is undoubtedly beautiful, color combination is really professionally designed. Therefore, here are some of comments for this site:

1. Does the top content only contains the logo and navigation? In my opinion it lacks content on the top content.

2. I did not notice that there were buttons on the right side (prev, play, stop & next buttons) until I thoroughly looked onto it.

3. One major thing is the font on the left side (meditate, live purely, be quiet, etc...), its quite hard to read because of the font colors used. Maybe you could find a way to make it readable.

4. Did you try to view this page in a monitor with super high resolution? Just a suggestion, it should still support high resolution monitors and the site design should not explode.

Here are my comments so far. It's actually not a comments what I've said is more of checklist for usability. Afterall, the design is very good! :)

I think big images is great as it catches the users attention immediately, and especially for a restaurant you want to see how it looks before you consider even going there.

My main concern would be the horrible green colour you have placed above and below. It doesn't really compliment the food if that makes any sense?

On the homepage, the white text on top of the images looks quite lost, personally i would have made it larger and on a transparent background like you have with the three smaller sections you have below.

I think visually it is a stunning site. For the purpose, though, it could be improved.

I feel like the image gives more of a feeling for a furniture shop than a restaurant. - You need to add peaceful smiling people having food on the picture.

Text is hard to read.

On the third pic, the picture with the dish should def be bigger in size. In the end, it is the food people are after and what the restaurant makes money off of.

I agree with one of the commenters that the prices need to be clearer with the currency sign preceding them.

Design is great. Top navigation it's weaker than tabs at bottom, maybe with a bigger text or placing it at header's bottom line. wood background match very well with green gradients Menu view could be richer with bigger images

nice work!

This is a good start but there is a bit of work to be done yet:

1. The navigation needs to be more prominent. Right now it's hard to read and very secnodary.
2. The newsletter prompt should be at the top.
3. The share this link feels out of place and isn't very clear. Where am I sharing it...facebook, digg, etc.
4. The heading on the image is barely readable.
5. You should have at least 4 items span across the bottom of the image, equally spread out.
6. You need more of a footer
7. It appears there is some sort of navigation/text within the black bar at the top, can't even read it.
8. Your inner pages should be on a white background and pretty simple. A picture of the food and the text. I don't like the wood grain background and the tabs at the bottom

With all that said, I think this is a great start. Keep working with it and I think it will be a great design.

The photos are fine, and the navigation and structure works. But, pay attention to the color, the green color at the top and in the footer it's not matching with the photo and the rest of the structure of the website.

Another thing: the font, it's to standard! Try another font for the headline and another for the rest of the text.

Last thing: the impagination it's strange, it's stards from the left and it end in the middle of the web site. There's a bigger gab and seems something is missing.

It is a good looking design and I think most customers and designers would be happy to put this out into the world. But it sounds like you are looking to make great design. So let's revisit a very basic concept and see how it plays out. User comes to the site 1)What are they looking for? 2)Is it the first thing they see? 3) What do we want them to do? 4) Is it something they would expect?

Just from looking at the site design I can answer those questions, but I believe one important user expectation is missing.Here are my assumptions on why a user would be on the website 1) to look at menu items 2)Hours, reservations 3)Catering or special function usage.

You've given the user 2 of the three on the first page, however the overall emphasis is on the ambiance and looks more like the design for an interior design studio than a restaurant. Where as I would expect the food to be more vital in the overall user experience in the restaurant proper.

Love the design!!!! The colour palette works really well and the whole vibe is really working for me. Can't wait to see the full design up!

Generally: a good design, fits the atmosphere of the restaurant when I see the pictures

The tabs below are strange to me, I don't feel compelled to clicked them. I don't understand their meanings and how they should differ from the buttons above

small issues: - 5th screen; text unreadable due to white background - prices need a currency sign and " , 00 " - readability of the menu names could be better

looks very dark to me or maybe it's just the screenshot?

over lay box on top of the huge picture is almost not readable on the 3rd column...

share this & search field is way to far from the main navigation when viewed in wide screen.. probably will look good on small resolution, but most of user nowadays is using wide screen. it needs to be place near the main navigation or from the footer links...

just a thought....

I really like the design the colours are nice and rich enough to appear warm and inviting.

I like the updated tab colour being in the brown rather then the previous Grey it fits in much nicer and doesn't hit you as 'hello i'm a tab.'

The two small areas I would possibly look at would be the 'meditate, live purely...' it's quite hard to read over the images (I realise this may change when you change the images) but as it currently is it's quite hard to read, also what is your reason for all left aligned except for the 'tep pranam' line?

The other thing is the wood grain I wonder if it's a bit much with all the other imagery going on it's almost sensory overload. My suggestion would be to lower it a little so it's more subtle which makes it a nice surprise when people realise that it's a woodgrain and not just 'brown gradient'

nice look though