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Fabulous design sketch. It is so clean and colorful and the food looks scrumptious. Do they FedEx to New Mexico? :)
What did you use for the slide show on the home page?
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Thank you Gary. If you had tried their food you would be willing the FedEx to New Mexico, really fresh and perfectly spiced (real fresh spices and not just chilli powder like most other places) I know a couple of TV chefs who have eaten there and they loved the food. I used http://www.hislider.com/ for the slideshow.
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Really nice design.
Slideshow changes a bit too quickly for me and the loading bar is distracting.
Great job though.
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Great looking site, Skech. Attractive design and photography. Love the 'gold-green' color you used for some of the text and graphics.
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How are you getting the slide show into Xara? Placeholder and copy and paste text from the HTML document?
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Nice work as usual, I think the image transitions are a bit quick as well though, an extra second delay might make a nice difference. It's not fast food after all! sorry :D Also there is a bit of an annoying image shift when each image loads/displays in Firefox here at least but it doesn't happen in chrome.
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Thanks XTOM. I will look at slowing down the slideshow perhaps by half a second per slide, don't want to go too slow as people may miss it.
Gary the slideshow is done first
then I add some code to <head> (<script type="text/javascript" src="sliderengine/jquery.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="sliderengine/jquery.hislider.js"></script>
)
then create the placeholder and add the <body> code (<div id="hislider1" style=" width:1500px;height:350px; margin: 0 auto;"></div> )
then upload the sliderengine and dataimages folders and that's it - the software generates an index.html page but that does not need to be uploaded.
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I really like the site Skech, it's clean and easy to navigate and now I'm hungry!
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Ah, OK then the process is about the same as Visual Slideshow. Cool. Thanks.
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skech, for me this is an excellent design, I'm starting a business adventure in the website design industry, my website is www.salesjoint.org.
The issue i have with xara is that the websites I've made, they don't adjust to the screen of mobile devices , like this one you just designed.
If you can help me with this. please send me a quote of the job , and lets do business
best regards,
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Xara cannot make sites which adgust to screen size, all you can do is create clean, unfussy sites. People really do not mind zooming in and out of a site and if you read recent posts on various web forums you will see that people are getting tired of responsive sites to a certain extent. This is due partly to not only larger and larger screen sizes on mobile devices (typical size for a smartphone is now 5inches and even apple are working on a 12inch ipad as are samsung) but just look at the resolutions of these devices, for instance the resolution of a samsung galaxy s4 is 1920px x 1080px, thats larger than the typical laptop screen.
You can of course always make two separate sites, one for larger screens and another for phones, you would then put in a re-direct script which would detect the screen resolution and direct the user to the mobile site. The problem is as I explained that the resolutions of the new smartphones are higher than most laptops and the script would not re-direct as it is looking for a screen resolution of <700px (or whatever you decide to set). Like I said a single well designed, well thought out site is all you need. If you would still like to work together then PM me.
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Wow, Sketch, that's a beautifully designed site. Well done!
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Thank you Manoj, appreciated.
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Chilli Fish or Chilli Chicken. Now you've done it!! I'm hungry. Nice site, and the photography is quite good.
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Hi Skech, yes a rocking good site nothing heavy. Bright, breezy and full of colour the food shots are first rate and really bring the full site to life. The slide show works well and runs smoothly, you might want to take a look at the Starters Menu it appears that Chicken Tikka is on twice...!
By the nu do they deliver to Scotland?
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Zarathustra and Tabian, thank you for your kind comments. some of the photos are supplied by the client others are stock photos. Tabian thanks for pointing out the tikka duplicate, will get that taken off, it wasn't there originally but I made some changes to the menu and must have duplicated it.
