Review 3

No9Park has a very professional looking home page.  The layout of a website is extremely simple.  The top right corner of the page has flipping images of food and the restaurant.  On the left side of the page is the navigation.  The bottom of the page consists of location and reservations information.  Every page has an image that goes with the text below it.  The colors of the website are very pleasing to the eye.  There are different wrappers around each section on each page guiding your eye to each place.  When hovering over a clickable link the text gets underline.  The website as a whole is very balanced and has minimal noise.  Peter Allen’s Italian restaurant website is my favorite out of the two.  As it was stated in the reading, Krug outlines 5 things you can do to make sure users see and understand as much about your site as possible.  These 5 things include: 1.Creating a clear visual hierarchy on every page 2.Taking advantage of conventions (both naming and graphic) 3.Breaking pages into clearly defined areas 4.Making it obvious what constitutes a clickable link 5.Minimizing noise. In my opinion Peter Allen’s Italian restaurant website succeeds in all 5 of these admirations.  The first thing my eyes go to are the interactive images on every single page the website provides.  The background color of the home page is very relaxing and calm meanwhile cheese is falling from the top of the screen onto a delicious looking stack of noodles.  Even the way the restaurant and food offered is described sounds more enjoyable than No9 Park.  This much effort in a website hopefully means the food is unbelievably good!  This Italian restaurant website provides great use of hierarchy on every page.  The navigation is in smaller text but just off to the right of the name of the restaurant.  Other than the home page, the images on the top of every page are the exact same size including the name of the restaurant in the top left corner.  The site’s pages are divided into three sections which include navigation title in the first section, information about the chosen path, and the consistent hours and address information in the third section.  A red underline appears under any clickable link.  The layout is easy to navigate through and the interactive pictures are entertaining to watch over and over again.