Cafe Website

Hi Guys. Been playing around with the responsive features of adobe muse and this is one of the site's we've completed this week. It is a refresh of the website we did just over two years ago and is completely different to that in terms of style. Again it's nice, clean and simple, the client specifically asked for a 'crisp' site so hopefully it works, the client certainly likes the finished result. We also decided to add a video the client wanted on the site in the 'hero' area of the homepage. The video will display on desktops etc but for obvious reasons we kept it off for mobiles, because let's face it no body wants to drain their data allowance, so a static image is shown instead. The site is fully responsive so please enjoy.

http://www.carlislecafe.co.uk/index.html

Tasty site.

Describe beans and cheese on toast. This is a distinctly British dish. I have heard singers such as Lily Allen talk about beans on toast, but can't quite imagine it.

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Can't be beat, takes a couple of minutes and is very filling, stick a fried egg on top and you have a hearty meal.

Mmmmmmmmmm! Comfort food!

"And in the Grove, by Gate and Hill, midst merry throng and market clatter – stood the Hall of the Mountain Grill where table strain’d ‘neath loaded platter..."

From The Legend of Beenzon Toste as referenced by Hawkwind on their Hall of the Mountain Grill album cover

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Well the web is quite fast and interesting too! nice one!

Thank you raden92

Just an update: We just got site of the day from Adobe for this site. http://resources.muse.adobe.com/coll...ite-of-the-day

Kudos. That is outstanding. (attached is our beans on toast result)

Thank you Gary. That's one hell of a plate of food, it's certainly a hearty meal.

Thats deadly Cloud! yourself and your team must be so chuffed. I always admire the websites you produce :)

Thank you James, we're particularly proud of this one because it was a massive move away from the original site the client had and lucky that the client gave us pretty much a free hand to do as we wished. It is also quite difficult to get the site of the day, for a start it's more like the site of every few days (it seems they choose every 3 days or so on average) and there are thousands of entries per day so we are happy to say the least.

Nice one! Well deserved!

Thank you John.

Very impressive site - great to see it get site of the day.

The phone and email info aren't always clickable links . Is that deliberate?

Paul

Thanks Paul, the phone and email are because there are certain problems with ios which replaces the phone numbers with it's own (terrible) look as a link (usually white which makes it appear as though nothing is there. There is a workaround to it that I have somewhere and need to dig out (I think it a simple meta tag).

Again nice job. The video is great and a good choice to make one hungry. Any plans to make video tutorials on youtube on muse?

Thanks Behzad, If I had time I probably would make tutorials but to be honest there are so many tutorials for muse, not only from adobe themselves but from all the widget makers out there. Muse-themes for instance have videos not only showing how to use their widgets but how to design sites and tips and tricks as well. Adobe being so much bigger than xara are able to put a lot of resources into making videos and live jams for muse.

Thank you David. appreciated.

great site. i like the full width look but there arent alot of templates to choose from. did you use a template or create from scratch?
Also can the other templates that arent full width be modified to full width?

GStas the site is created in adobe muse from scratch. We never use templates, even for our wordpress sites we do not use templates.

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GStas the site is created in adobe muse from scratch. We never use templates, even for our wordpress sites we do not use templates.

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thanks!

According to me, can to improve the website's speed as its a bit slow and to reduce the photos, because don't show up. Overall, very good design on the [link removed by moderator]

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According to me, can to improve the website's speed as its a bit slow and to reduce the photos, because don't show up. Overall, very good design on the website.

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Welcome to TalkGraphics.
I quite like your business site.

Acorn

Just to let everyone know. The website is no longer online, someone at the clients end has it redirected it to a site created by someone else. so you are not viewing our website.

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Originally Posted by Cloud

Hi Guys. Been playing around with the responsive features of adobe muse and this is one of the site's we've completed this week. It is a refresh of the website we did just over two years ago and is completely different to that in terms of style. Again it's nice, clean and simple, the client specifically asked for a 'crisp' site so hopefully it works, the client certainly likes the finished result. We also decided to add a video the client wanted on the site in the 'hero' area of the homepage. The video will display on desktops etc but for obvious reasons we kept it off for mobiles, because let's face it no body wants to drain their data allowance, so a static image is shown instead. The site is fully responsive so please enjoy.

http://www.carlislecafe.co.uk/index.html

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It seems to me that using the font "Source Code Pro" on such sites is not appropriate.:-O

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It seems to me that using the font "Source Code Pro" on such sites is not appropriate.:-O

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Would you care to elaborate? As the font is open source it is its aesthetic?. Why, while you are there, can you explain what you mean by "such sites"?

I am interested as well in your experience with "Xara +".

Acorn

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Would you care to elaborate? As the font is open source it is its aesthetic?. Why, while you are there, can you explain what you mean by "such sites"?

I am interested as well in your experience with "Xara +".

Acorn

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I meant all sites that are not related to programming and Internet technologies.

This is a cafe site, you need a readable beautiful font without italics.

I will not answer you this question, it will already be a flood, if you want to will know about my work experience, write in a personal.

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I meant all sites that are not related to programming and Internet technologies.
This is a cafe site, you need a readable beautiful font without italics.
I will not answer you this question, it will already be a flood, if you want to will know about my work experience, write in a personal.

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Thank you.

I was confused why you chose to comment on a site that is no longer the original one created by Cloud.
Cloud creates beautiful sites and you seem to have jumped in, quoting Could's original Post, as if the current situation was his issue.
Also the current site does not show any italics (http://www.carlislecafe.co.uk/).

I did not ask about your work experience. You state you have "Xara +". There is no such product and I hope you were using Xara Cloud+ or Xara Pro+ as I wanted your opinion of them.

TG is about helping and advising members and rarely criticising. If criticising, we tend to be constructive and not just say this is good or this is bad, without explaining.

I asked genuine open questions, hoping to understand and learn from your knowledge.

Acorn

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You state you have "Xara +".

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I don't see this - have I missed it, is it on another thread ?

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I don't see this - have I missed it, is it on another thread ?

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OP has changed their Profile to "Xara web designer" at 10:29 today.

Acorn

I missed it :D

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Thank you.

I was confused why you chose to comment on a site that is no longer the original one created by Cloud.
Cloud creates beautiful sites and you seem to have jumped in, quoting Could's original Post, as if the current situation was his issue.
Also the current site does not show any italics (http://www.carlislecafe.co.uk/).

I did not ask about your work experience. You state you have "Xara +". There is no such product and I hope you were using Xara Cloud+ or Xara Pro+ as I wanted your opinion of them.

TG is about helping and advising members and rarely criticising. If criticising, we tend to be constructive and not just say this is good or this is bad, without explaining.

I asked genuine open questions, hoping to understand and learn from your knowledge.

Acorn

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I saw the topic, went to the site and decided to give my opinion to the author of the topic.

And you, like an old grandfather, pestered and interrogated me. I don't want to answer you anything else, you are now on my ignore list.

I propose to stop flooding in this thread.

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I don't see this - have I missed it, is it on another thread ?

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me either handrawn, in fact all of them are not available to me, I would think XDPX17, would get it, no matter the forum1
but I must be wrong.

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I saw the topic, went to the site and decided to give my opinion to the author of the topic.

And you, like an old grandfather, pestered and interrogated me. I don't want to answer you anything else, you are now on my ignore list.

I propose to stop flooding in this thread.

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Hi - As Acorn pointed out, we did not create the site you have seen, the site we created was some years ago (4) so there is really no point in commenting on the fonts or anything else - I doubt that the people/person who designed the new site is aware of this post so commenting is really pointless. I posted early last year that the current site on that domain is no longer our website. Thanks