Specials: add theme #7920
Specials: add theme #7920
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General visual observations Delightful monochromatic theme with good use of duotone photography. It's also nice to see something east-asian as far as demo content. Visually it is a bit close to MyMenu, not quite close enough to be a style variation, but nearing that point. There's something quite bold about this large heading and the whitespace, that could make for some interesting layouts in various places:
Speaking of, it says "Specials", but I was expecting a section of menu demo content below that. Is something missing there? It's nice to use named HTML anchors for jumping to sections of the page. I wonder, should there be a "back to top" link somewhere at the bottom? You can add one by simply linking to Not a blocker, but a consideration for future themes! It's a nice trick and it doesn't require a custom block. There's a small space between major sections here: If that's intentional, it should probably be a bit larger, perhaps? I'm seeing an issue with some links in the footer:
They appear to have broken. I'm also wondering if the border should be around teh whole footer box, or not, there's something unfinished feeling about it as-is. Also not a blocker, mainly a thought. I wonder if we can tweak this text a bit, the grammar seems a bit off:
Perhaps:
Mobile looks fantastic, the theme feels made for it, which is reasonable given it's a restaurant site. I wonder: should we put an address and a phone number at the bottom? Normally I'd scroll to the footer for a restaurant website for those things specifically. They may take the place of Tumblr and Instagram? Template review 404 page could use some text tweaks:
Perhaps:
The post meta includes a $ sign:
It's a subtle line between helpful demo content and going a step too far. I think in this case it might be better to just omit that $. Style variations These are fantastic. I particularly like the font and stark colors of Black Void: 
Chewing Blue, Dark Caramel, Nautical Frost are nice too. Red star is a favorite of mine because it's so out there, ketchup and mustard! 
It's too crazy to be default, but it's definitely opinionated, I love that. However perhaps we should call it something other than Red Star. Perhaps:
File and readme reviews Files look good. Summary This is a nice one. The style variations, especially, give this one potency, very nice work. There are a couple of technical followups, but this one nicely bookends the category of single page vertical menu themes. |
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Thanks, @jasmussen. The big 'Specials' word should be the restaurant logo before the footer block. I used an image because we can't do that with text right now, but we may be able to in the future. |
Oh! Makes sense then. All good. |
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@jasmussen Anyway, I've changed it, and it's now the site title in a considerable size, using VW. |
A clean, beautiful, and customizable theme for restaurant menu websites.
Demo site