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Took me some fighting to make it valid XHTML and CSS but I think the result speaks for itsself.

http://www.degasterij-gorinchem.nl

(warning: I might sound a bit harsh. If you cant handle that, don't read it.)

Busy (druk) was my first tought after taking a look. there are too many patterns and distractions to bring the message across. The background image is very hard to recognise, but makes reading the low contrast text harder. The light on dark text does not look very art-deco to me, it reminds me more of a linux terminal .
The banner image of the women works very good, it is the only real art-deco piece in the design. The addres is not really needed there and very fuzzy with the yellow shadow. (Why would you choose a lighter shadow?)
The colors in the menu look nice . maybe use those more and less black? Now they are tiny islands floating in a sea of black .
The frontpage image does not fit into the site at all. It is too busy and the colors do not match. It is hard to make out where the restaurant is, even with that gastly logo photoshopped over it.
I suggest you move that one to the 'where are we' page to aid people in finding the reataurant, altough that will probably hard to swallow for the owner. Replace it with some graphics that look distincly art-deco, maybe with the colors fixed to match the rest of the site.
A bit more content would be nice too, but i suppose that is up to the owners to fill?

Jelle,

I appreciate your feedback, and I even agree with some of your remarks.
For me the job was to build a self maintainable website which was valid xhtml and css and that had the same looks and feel as the menucards and the interior of the restaurant.

As this is a very small restaurant the feeling you get (lots of distraction by all kinds of gadgets and stuff) is equal to the feeling you see on the site.
The whole scene (interior decoration) is a mixture of Art Deco, Tiffany stuff and allmost the interior of the Titanic style stuff (which was the intention of the owner, so in that case he succeeded).

As for the frontdoor photo and the content still missing, for that I'm waiting for the owner to supply those, and actually what you see is all part of the restaurant, lying on the corner in the back but with a very crowded terras last summer)

The new owners are very happy about the looks of the site and the extention it gives their restaurant so as you know, never argue with a customer.

If he's happy, so am I. 

De gasterij is vet gezellig!

De gasterij is really fun! I'm not really liking your site, but hey it's clear what it's about and you did a good job on the menu!

amygdela wrote: De gasterij is vet gezellig!

De gasterij is really fun! I'm not really liking your site, but hey it's clear what it's about and you did a good job on the menu!

The place is indeed "vet gezellig en knus" and the food is fabulous 

@jelle
I removed the top banner with the address as it seems overkill indeed 

Hey, it seems there is a horizontal line (yellow or pink-ish) on the left side of the logo, here is the fix:
http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 657.0.html

Cheers,
Geo

samurai wrote: Hey, it seems there is a horizontal line (yellow or pink-ish) on the left side of the logo, here is the fix:
http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 657.0.html

Cheers,
Geo

Thanks for noticing Geo, I did not see it in both IE and Opera, but I applied the fix anyway as it makes sense.
Should be gone now.