This site
just went live last week and is, in my opinion, a very nice design. It's for The Godfather Restaurant in Centurion. I did the previous design as well, but that was at the last company I worked for, guess they didn't like the guys there after I left and came looking, just goes to show what good client service does...
Portfolio entry 7: The Godfather Restaurant
http://www.godfather.co.za/
The client wanted something stylish but not boring, the background pattern is actually a pattern on the walls in the restaurant. The previous site had a nice flame effect, which they liked and I had to top on the new site... which it seems the client feels I did cause they love the new fire effect. The website is pretty straight forward with a lot of photos to show off the areas and a booking form.
Making reservations for dinner...
And the links again :
http://www.abclive.co.za/ ::
http://www.abc.za.com/
Had to create a LOT of transparent PNGs for this site, the background is one big tiling image and had to make the site happen on top of it, which means most images had to be PNGs.
I had to code quite a bit of error checking into the forms, especially the forms with multiple dates. First you have to check if the date is in the future, you have to check if the 2nd date is after the first date, you have to check if the dates are valid (Feb doesn't have a 30th), etc, etc, etc.
The design came out pretty nice and the functionality for the administrator makes it a bit easier to organise the event. Keeping track of the attendees and even printing name cards directly from the database.
Besides having a cool design, the website is pretty standard, except it doesn't scroll, it pages like a book... something to do with the fact that the design is a book I imagine...
