Cafe Website

Great job. Perfect for your client. Right on Target.

That damask wall paper/placemat looks too perfect. Can you curl up the edge? Just a thought, not sure if I am correct.

I love how your thoughtfully incorporated things in the restaurant. The vines are nicely placed, but I would bring my camera and shoot a restaurant apron on a chair and use that in-place of the vines.

why do some clients want one page site?

I gave you a 5 for originality not because it is a new look, but because you used element that are one of a kind for this store.

I like the design, and it definately looks good. Only thing i would change is the opening hours, as these should be more prominent and before the 'fold'.

Good site though, keep up the good work.

I like it man. Here's an idea. Why not make the logo look like a sign that's painted or applied to the wall that all the "pin-ups" are attached to. It feels like every image is another wall pin-up...too many little notes. You said you needed more weight...maybe a large logo sign would be the weight you're looking for? Just a thought.

I like the first one!

Some thoughts:

a) The "menu" area, is too dark to use the black font. You get this big dar block that will not engage the users as you intended to.

b) No navigation?

c) You should should change the tomatos, onions and the coffee cup for a different perspective. Maybe a top perspective would work great. If not your should add an area where it's visible that the perspective is changing.

d) Some color? I know there's color in the website, but the black board, should use some cotnent for the Todays/Yesterdays specials highlight. Just as those menus on the black boards that some coffee have on the street.

Keep up the good work

If the second one is the final page, i would change the color of the "The Berkeley Cafe" and "When to drop by" to green like in the daily specials, so the page would be almost symmetrical to the center.

But if the client wants a too simple design, i dont know if you should push yourself...

The first design was much more creative, but becaus of the client you had no other option, you bring out the "maximum". Great Job.

Hi Brian!

I like the concept of the top one. Just maybe in the Daily specials section to pull up the 'Grilled Vegetables' section to be closer to the 'Mixed Organic Green Salads'. So the spacing is fitting to the right side and a better relation is established? Maybe also consider making the columns smaller to fit alignment extension of the first call out of "Mixed Organic Greens Salad"?

In the menu I think you need something that pulls away from the feel of over welling text ahead. Maybe by applying a heavier or lighter/colored text for the the title of items ahead with a lighter text for description? Right now it feels a bit unwelcoming and hard to find right away what may sound good.

As you know though I like the bottom logo the best for this. Just, are they willing to change their outside blue color they have going On? If not maybe incorporate their color. (Hopefully they do to fit your new redesign of green).

In the end I enjoy the bottom design the most and feel that you need more contrast between the green strips and your type.

Delightful/fresh colors and overall look.

Good luck! definitely let us know which they choose at the end of this project.

it is really cool. Love the first page. it really involves the reader and you want to scroll down to see the full page. Love the black board design, love the notes. Nice to look at.

I liked it, but I think there are some things could be changed to make it better. First, I didn't like the colors because it makes the layout so dark for middle to bottom.

The contrast in the menu is bad, don't call the users attention, and the the green vector on top is not agradable in table's background.

I think some elements are lost in the layout like leafs on the board, the pin on the map and the menu.

I like the logo's application, the board and tomatos image, and i like the top's illumination.

The coffee's illumination is so different than the others in left side.

That's it.

Nothing to say-just really like it

Great, looks remarkably. I like carefulness and neatness in this site. But at the second page there is not enought contrast between heading and background. Try to make font color brown. Generally good!

Really good design for a cafe.

change anything to the first one, it's awesome!

i like the color, the texture and the way the photo is taken vintage looking actually. although if the purpose is to attract customers for the coffee shop maybe you should use colors that suit advertising bright colors. but this is one is alright. i like it.

the first concept is my favorite

I think that this completes the goal perfect. Simple, easy to understand. The vines look good as well.

As its a cafe I assume that its primerly meant for coffee.

1. I like to see a dark coffee coloured strip instead of that GREEN strip.

2. And not sure about that leaves hanging. May be use coffee beans instead. If the leaves are of a coffee plane then no need to change I guess.

Overall a original design. Cheers mate

The first word that went trough my mind when I saw this layout was "creativity". I liked the overall layout I think you should just give some line height to the text in the "menu" section. I think that's all. Good work!

The menu type should be lot bigger. Also the background could be little lighter, to assist readability.

I like everything else.

But... where's the navigation? It's a single page website? In this single page the user can find all the information that he needs? The design is good, but some of the elements is out of place, box in the bottom of screen, it must be near the main content, cause it's a important information.

I'm not quite sure what the purpose of the watercolor strip is. I'm trying to imagine what the website would look like without it. I do see that it's repeated in the menu - at least there's consistency with the watercolor. I just don't understand why it's there.

Everything else looks good to me, even the vines. Maybe you could replace the realistic vines with the ones that are in the logo? Just a suggestion!

Anyway, it's a solid design! It's straightforward but very nice to look at.

very very nice theme i like it