Do your worst!

[cyprus]

Right this is a new site I've just published on t'internet. I know it's plain and simple, but bear in mind this is a chippy and not the new Nickolodean site. I'm getting photos of the business soon which will be inserted on the home page and obviously there will be a full menu in the menu section. Tell me what you think!

Constructive criticism most welcome!

http://www.thecrispycod.com

[marcode]

nice enough.. does the job

hope your gonna remove all that excess space kicking about at the bottom though

and id see if i could embed google maps as opposed to that shitty image.

and the buttons could be a little less... gay.

other than that.. looks ok.

[russbeer]

nice logo at the top, and easy nav

like marcode says though, far too much space at the bottom

[-AMO-]

It looks a little too simplistic. You should consider adding a border to surround the overall content.

The navigation would look nicer if it changed to a lighter or darker shade of blue instead of white on mouse over.

Also, change the fonts...

[TotallyRandom]

nice simple layout but nice .

Could do with setting up auto adjusting layout for the users screen resolution as I’ve got mine pretty high and get allot of white borders around that but would be nice if it auto fitted. not too hard to do just use % for everything instead of set sizes


apart from that nice !

[cyprus]

Thanks, actually did the logo myself! Marco, how do I embed google maps? This is the link, but not sure how it can be integrated.

It's what I wanted to do in the first place, just didnt have the nouse. I've left the space on the homepage for when I add a couple of photos and opening times.

[marcode]

http://paulstamatiou.com/2005/12/04/...d-google-maps/
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/

[TheManWho]

To make it read a bit better, I'd make it

..of our Fish & Chip and Chinese Menu...

Instead of 'our Fish and Chip and Chinese Menu'

I like the logo, but think 'The Crispy Cod' text would be better in a dark shade of blue...?

[cyprus]

To make it read a bit better, I'd make it

..of our Fish & Chip and Chinese Menu...

Instead of 'our Fish and Chip and Chinese Menu'

I like the logo, but think 'The Crispy Cod' text would be better in a dark shade of blue...?

Text darkened and added & symbol. Better?

[/dev/null]

I too agree that a colout other than white for the :hover effect on the navigation menu would look a little nicer...

[AspectUK]

Couple of immediate things I see.

In your source you have added a H1 style to a couple of spaces:

<div id="header">
        <h1>&nbsp;</h1>
		<h1>&nbsp;</h1>
	</div>

and also to the Home title:

<h1><font face="Rockwell">Home</font></h1>

and also to the name and address of the shop:

<h1 align="left"><font size="3" face="Rockwell">The Crispy Cod, Shop Address Removed</font></h1>
                <h1 align="left"><font size="2" face="Rockwell">Tel: Removed&nbsp;</font></h1>

Consider creating a new style for titles and a new style for menu buttons or use the H2, H3 etc tags as the H1 tag should be reserved for the Heading of your page, which in turn will help search engines index and rank your website.

also .. You have specified a non-standard font in "Rockwell" this may look good on your computer but could look awful when a users system replaces it with something that it decides will be the closest match.

Props to you using CSS to layout the page, an excellent start to your web design attempts.

On the whole though, I see little point to the site, unless you feel that you are going to be doing online ordering or something similar. If thats the case, then, to me, the design seems far too plain and doesn't make me want to part with my money.

Best of luck with it though.

[cyprus]

Thanks for the input bud.

That's the thing, I don't see the point to this site either but the guy wants a website so he's gonna get a website!

[Freddy]

Good site for a chip shop website. Take that how you wish

Serious though, not bad at all.

[-AMO-]

The new background looks good. Does a great job of focusing the actual content. Good decision.

The banner isnt bad, but I feel something more could be done with it... Maybe consider doing something with it if you have time.

[/dev/null]

The thing I'd say about the banner image is the texture is too like the background image... Maybe a smooth texture would be better?

[marcode]

lol.. google maps screenshot.. lazy.

looks much better though. could do with less white space on the home page if your not going to make it fluid. maybe a picture of the place or something.

[joxywoxy]

Wheres the bloody menu ? ha ha

I like the logo , very nice

[cyprus]

I'll have some good photos of the place and the menu on Thursday, so pages will have some more content. I tried following the google map embedding Marco, but the cunt wasn't having any of it. Followed it exactly but no joy.

I will try and do something more with the logo, that blue background is just begging for some more action. I just want to make sure I keep everything nice and clean, I'm tempted to add a bit of animation, a fish or something to go under the buttons to fill the void a bit, but everything i've found so far looks tacky.

Also, in the contact page I'm tempted to put the business details more central to balance it out.

Finally I will be looking in to changing the font as it has been mentioned it might look shite on someone elses PC who doesn't have the Rockwell font. Any suggestions?

[/dev/null]

The following may hel pyou RE your font issue:

http://www.kayskreations.net/fonts/fonttb.html

You can specify several fonts though in CSS so that if one isn't found, the next is tried and so on... start with the font you want then have an alternative you like and finally, have a fallback (say Arial which is common across most systems) for the worst-case scenario...

[Booyakasha]

I like it, plain and simple and does the required job.

I have seen a few chip shop websites in the past and I can safely say this is the best so far that I have witnessed.

Here is a place in liverpool I quite often order from, and I think the website is a nightmare.

http://beifan.com/001foodliverpool/index.html

http://beifan.com/070takeawaymenu/index.html

Im up in St Helens at the moment doing college course so may pop in and sample what they have to offer

Keep up the good work.