Cambridge Common Restaurant Website

[plumtreeblossom]

First, click and listen:

http://www.cambridgecommonrestaurant.com/main.html

Just e-mailed:

Dear Manager and Dear Webmaster,

I feel a need to tell you that the song that auto-plays on your website is hands-down the worst song I've ever heard in any musical genre in my entire life. I'm glad it's possible to mute it while trying to read your website, but I hesitate at the idea of actually going to your restaurant for fear that "music" similar to this is what plays in your dining room. Your website would be much more usable and inviting without this noise that sounds like a cat in grand mal seizure accompanied by a 2-year-old on guitar.

I hope this song isn't representative of your dining room's ambient music, as I'm sure I would otherwise like to try dining in your establishment. I just don't want to have to bring earplugs.

Thanks,
-Mare

Comments

[marius23.livejournal.com]

While your points are all entirely valid for this website, I do feel compelled to point out that it is possible to create a decent site in Flash, including linkable pages and screen reader accessibility. However, it requires using both the proper tools and actually putting some effort into the design of the site, clearly neither of which have been done here.