Little restaurant site

**Cloud** · 11 November 2013, 02:03 PM

I have been supervising our printing company at the moment so not had much time to design websites in xara but good to get back into it.

This is a site for an Indian restaurant in a small village in Yorkshire. It's an interesting restaurant as the building it's in dates from the early 17th century. The site brief was to have a classy and easy to use site, and something which looks good at all monitor sizes. Went for a full width slideshow for this (of course not full width but achives that on screen sizes up to I500px and that covers most screen sizes). Tried to keep the size of the site in terms of kbs small so that it loads quickly. The new site has made a big difference to the restaurant's appeal and it has shot up in google search to number one in it's keyword, it was languising in 8th or 9th before. The owners are also updating the decor so the site and the interior will tie-in.

http://www.balti-house.com/

**gwpriester** · 11 November 2013, 02:44 PM

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?

**Cloud** · 11 November 2013, 02:53 PM

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.

**pauland** · 11 November 2013, 02:59 PM

Really nice design.

Slideshow changes a bit too quickly for me and the loading bar is distracting.

Great job though.

**Boy** · 11 November 2013, 03:25 PM

Great looking site, Skech. Attractive design and photography. Love the 'gold-green' color you used for some of the text and graphics.

**gwpriester** · 11 November 2013, 04:49 PM

How are you getting the slide show into Xara? Placeholder and copy and paste text from the HTML document?

**xtom** · 11 November 2013, 05:04 PM

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

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.

**Cloud** · 11 November 2013, 06:45 PM

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.

**angelize** · 11 November 2013, 06:49 PM

I really like the site Skech, it's clean and easy to navigate and now I'm hungry!

**Cloud** · 11 November 2013, 07:03 PM

Thanks Frances.

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