Porthminster Café

The second link I was sent by the client was that of Porthminster Café. This website is appawling. Websites like this shouldn't have Flash intros to them, and on top of that they shouldn't be this badly made, or for that matter link to the main page using popup windows that most browser's now block without question.

A splash page might have been OK, given that there is a 2 way split as to where you go once you arrive here, but to have an actual intro that literally takes a long time to slide some text across the screen is a little absurd.

The actual website, as can be seen in the first screenshot was very ugly and had been obviously badly designed from the ground up. The icons, buttons and color scheme were boring and sloppy.

They had menu's on the website that were simply large lists of unimaginatively laid out text. Not very inspiring when trying to entice someone to come and eat at your restaurant.

The website did however remind me how I need to be thinking about implementing some sort of method for locating the café. So far my favorite option is to link to the Google maps page that points to the café's location. This is easily created and serves it's purpose better than poor res images that don't really give enough detail.