Wine and Cigar Sites

Wines

As well as looking at Whisky websites I have looked at some Wine and Cigar sites seeing as that is also what Gauntley sell.

The Blossom Hill website is under construction but I really liked the page that was displayed, it has that clean, crisp fresh feels to it which mirrors the wine they make. Nothing is in a box here either, the design of the page is very fluid.

The Gallo wine website was really nice, although it does 'contain' the information it does not fell boxy, the colours used also hold that tone of herritage and refinment. Everything is well laid out and presented for the user.

I really liked the Wither Hills website, mainley because of the use of images as a navigation bar in the middle. The images slowly move around each other and respond to the mouse touch on roll over by getting a little bigger and tells the user where that image link will take them. It is a nice feature that the user cna interact with.

The website that I enjoyed the most was the Echo Falls website, it was full of colour but at the same time was clean and crisp like the Blossom Hill Website. Straight away the user could interact with the site.

I loved how the bottles in the Wine selection catagory would react to the mouse touch by bursting with the fruites used in the drink.

When clicked on, the information about that wine would come up in a really nicely presented way. It even goes on to provide recommended meals to have with the wine to enhance the product more.

Another part of the site that I liked was a sounds page that the user can choose different tunes to play, this helps to create an atmosphere and a feel for the product.

Take a look at this website: http://www.echofallswine.co.uk/flash.asp

Cigars

It was hard ot find a cigar website that held some of the qualities that I want my website to have, this is because most of the websites are cigar merchants and traders reather than the creating companies themselves.

I did however like this website by the Vancouver Cigar Company. I liked the rich colours used in the design and general neatness of the information which a lot of the cigar websites lacked.