Restaurant website! please review ;)

[luisqsm]

hi! this is my first flash job as a webdesign freelancer (the other websites I did were just for personal purpose) and I wish you all feel free to make some comments about it
Notice that the website is in portuguese, as it is for a restaurant near Lisbon in Portugal.. anyway you can travel through the website just for fun :p
Just one more thing.. imagine you are in the restaurant, so you can play with the napkin and the plate as you could do it (drag it) in a restaurant table :p

www.flagrantedelitro.com

(you need macromedia flash player 8)

sorry my english.. I'm portuguese :hehe:

 

[lasvegas]

Well it does look nice. Has a few usuability issues... for example: on the pizzas menu the slider is hard to figure out at first, usually people click the arrow up or down to scroll and not click and drag... took a few tries to figure it out. Also when you look at a larger picture for some strange reason it get's rid of the "x" to close the window.

Overall this website shows off your flash skills nicely.

I guess it depends on what goals the restaurant has for this website... but as a user, this website is frustrating. There is no reason for a visitor to ever return, no search engine optimization, no details about the menu, no prices, no specials, no email info... basically no real reason I should be there in the first place.

But that's just my opinion.

 

[monty]

I will not get into any functionality aspects here because I don't know anything about the aim of this design. Designwise, it looks kind of nice, very easy on the eyes. Very nice flash job.

From the user's point of view; I would say there is some room for improvement.

Oh and I thing I would go for a white plate or maybe some shade between white and grey, not really agree with the orange.

Anyway, best of luck!
-mattijs

 

[luisqsm]

thanks a lot for your comments!

there are just some things I didn't say about the goals the restaurant has for this website:
the colours have to be based on orange, black and some "old" yellow because those are the restaurant's colours, in fact the plate and the napkin have those colors too (:
About the information displayed in the website: there is no email, prices or specials :s that's not my fault but the restaurant's owners didn't want.. but notice that this is not a big restaurant or something like a franchising, it's just a very very small and simple restaurant in the suburbs of a small town called Odivelas :p so they don't have online take-away or even internet inside the restaurant.. I would like to do those things in the website, but I can't :s there are some webdesign limitations, you know what I'm talking about :hehe:

thanks a lot for your comments and suggestions!! some improvements can be done!! keep posting! :p

 

[peter phillips]

Nice flash site. I really like the concept of playing with the napkin and the plate as you could do it (drag it) in a restaurant. Very good job considering it's your first flash job.

 

[luisqsm]

thanks

thanks a lot for your words! keep posting comments :p