Home Page re-design

Hey Nick, It looks pretty rockin' so far. I love the delivery scooter guy? If you did that graphic, great job! So I'm gonna try to make some suggestions, which aren't like "you must do these", but just some "hey, have you considered" things. Btw, I'm more lookin at the live site than at this, I'm assuming that's really what you want.

(1) First off, I like the change on the popular dishes from this image to your live site (the live site looks much better with the rounded corners and title background).

(2) The "Order Takeaway Online" text in the center, I think would look better with the shadow underneath instead of on top (this goes for the Go button too). It'll keep the shadowing consistent with the scooter guy. I definitely like the shadow effect over no effect too.

(3) one quick/small detail is to get rid of the top border of the center graphic. It appears to be the only division that has a border and it also makes the "1" look kind of unclean/unpolished.

(4) I'd suggest making a way to get rid of the top notifier that this is a new site. Make some cookie system like stackoverflow.com, where you can "x" and it won't show up again. With that, I'd also put a link for the "find a bug?" and "old site" at the bottom maybe?

(5) The spacing in your menu looks off. hover over contact for example and you'll notice that the left margin is more than the right margin.

(6) I like the arrow idea with "Enter your postcode or town", but it doesn't point to the input field, it points to the Go button. Maybe reduce the postcode text (since it's "optional" reading anyway). This will bring out the input field even more (which is good) and also give room for the arrow to point to the input field? Or maybe flip it and put it on the other side? Not really sure what to do, but you seem creative enough.

(7) I like the headers for the sub sections as well as their icons

(8) Maybe make the dishes slidable? When I was lookin at the site, I wanted to flip through the dishes, but I didn't really wanna go to another page. It'll give some animation to the front page and make it that much cooler too!

(9) I think you have enough space for two reviews. Maybe remove the bottom-right quotation mark, move the name to the right and add another review with that same format underneath? I think filling in that space with definitely improve things :-)

(10) The best offers is probably the greatest potential that is the least advertised on the site. If there is anything that would be a selling point to the site It'd be these. I'd really consider some of the things you could do with these to better market them. My suggestion? Well, without very serious thought, maybe move the customer reviews section down by the "like" us on facebook and give Best Offers more real state and then organize them maybe in two columns or most popular and most recent or something? Anyway, if you stay with the same layout, I still have a suggestion to at least find some way to better differentiate between the offers. I'd also find some way to make it easy for "skimmers" to see these. The user will probably never take advantage of these unless they just straight up read through them all until they find one they like. If you really want this section to be effective, make it skimable so it captures the glancing user's interest. Again, use the full real estate, AKA, make the 3 "more" buttons all line up.

(11) I'd consider using some facebook and twitter icons that are similar instead of their logos. It'll help keep that section consistant and I think look better :-) There are a ton of free social media icons, google for them or use some service like findicons.com

(12) fix the padding on the "like" us on facebook. the right and left padding seem off

(13) I had no clue the "let us know" in the blog post was a link since its the same font style as the rest of the text. It wasn't until I noticed all the strange spacing after it and hovered over it that I realized it was a link.

(14) Make enough space for each area to be on a single line. "Southend-on-Sea" is on two lines for me

I know this seems like a lot, but so much of this is just details and touch up things. The biggest thing I'd really suggest is the Best Offers thing. You have a really awesome site so far! Congrats and good luck!

The site clean and simple and user friendly. In the the 'Restaurant Listing' page the ratings with stars could be more spectacular. You could show the city's name if you announce the postal code. You could put a more spectacular photo onto the main page.

Reviewed in Chrome, download time 2.4s

1. Font size of text in Best offers and customer reviews is quite small.
2. Suggest the use of GeoIP so the postcode is close to me and the best offers are relevent
3. logo is a bit poor
4. clicking in postcode box should make the postcode disappear
5. in restaurant list - white text on yellow buttons is difficult to read
6. I'd like to be able to sort restaurants by distance from my house

You've done well - the illustration is particularly good!

The main thing I would change is 'e' on the logo. It doesn't stand out enough and you want the user to look at the logo first. Maybe a drop shadow or a heavier stroke would help?

Also, a small thing but the drop shadow on the GO button looks a bit odd - could you have it on the bottom right rather than the top left?

Could you make the body text a bit larger as it seems to be getting lost in with everything else?

Lastly, it might be worth putting in some vertical lines between the 'popular dishes', 'customer reviews' and 'best offers' at the bottom so that it easier to distinguish each section.

Hope this helps and good luck!

Very funny design, clean and colorful! Your service is clearly described.

You make it in very oryginal style. I like it