{"id":38163,"date":"2011-08-14T15:44:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T15:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/why-menupages-exists-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2011-08-14T15:44:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T15:44:16","slug":"why-menupages-exists-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/why-menupages-exists-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"Why Menupages exists | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve wondered I’m sure. I have. Why are restaurant websites so horrifically bad?<\/a>:<\/p>

…The rest of the Web long ago did away with auto-playing music, Flash buttons and menus, and elaborate intro pages, but restaurant sites seem stuck in 1999.<\/b> The problem is getting worse in the age of the mobile Web—Flash doesn’t work on Apple’s devices, and while some of these sites do load on non-Apple smartphones, they take forever to do so, and their finicky<\/p>

…<\/p>

I did get a plausible-sounding explanation of the design process from Tom Bohan, who heads up Menupages, the fantastic site that lists menus of restaurants in several large cities. “Say you’re a designer and you’ve got to demo a site you’ve spent two months creating,” Bohan explains. “Your client is someone in their 50s who runs a restaurant but is not very in tune with technology. What’s going to impress them more: Something with music and moving images, something that looks very fancy to someone who doesn’t know about optimizing the Web for consumer use, or if you show them a bare-bones site that just lists all the information? I bet it would be the former—they would think it’s great and money well spent.”<\/p>

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