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Tuesday April 20th, 2004
Mulligans is following in the footsteps of the aged Victorian feel that made whatdoiknow.org such an influential site. It's a very well branded site with Guinness-like creamy colors, wood carvings, decorative borders and unusually good header photos; all in all, a site that fits the subject perfectly.
It's also interesting to see that the developers Asset Web and Massimiliano Sorrentini have used a PNG graphic for the bar sign to make it seemlessly overlap the header graphic. We only wish that the PNG format was better supported by IE/Win, so we all could take advantage of the alpha transparency without resorting to workarounds.
Reviewed by Johan Edlund
#1
This site's design is great, but the mark-up is lacking a bit. Look at the source, and you will see some presentational mark-up for the navigation, but besides things like that, I like it... despite I don't understand a word.
Posted by Danny Cohen :: April 20th, 2004 at 12:27 PM
#2
An irish pub in Italy deserves an award regardless of how nice the website is layed out! Very nice site. I'm thirsty now.
Posted by Aaron Cain :: April 20th, 2004 at 09:21 PM
#3
Aaron: Irish pubs are very common in Italy, although just a few of them boast a real Irish feeling (read: Guinness is served in the right way... ç_ç ).
I'm thirsty too. ^_^;
~Neko
Posted by Neko :: April 20th, 2004 at 09:55 PM
#4
Neko: I did not know that. Guess I should leave North America more often!
Posted by Aaron Cain :: April 20th, 2004 at 10:38 PM
#5
why leave north america? we are just getting the Adult Happy Meal?
"God Bless the US, and nobody else"
Posted by dcohen :: April 21st, 2004 at 02:11 AM
#6
This is a nice little site - as you say, very well branded, nice header photography (apart from the homepage, I think - it's strangely the least enticing picture on the site, and somewhat lacking in sharpness. A nice, crisp image there would work wonders. But I digress), and typically cosy pub-like colours. The mark-up could probably be streamlined a bit, but it's fine XHTML 1.0 Transitional nonetheless.
The encouraging thing about this site is that it's not a design site, and yet it shows just what attention to the craft of web design can do for a (prima facie unrelated) business.
Posted by Martin :: April 26th, 2004 at 02:54 PM
#7
hmmm can't seem to access it today. have they taken it down?
Posted by Brian Tully :: April 28th, 2004 at 03:02 PM
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