For my final review, it was hard to choose a website to compare to our restaurant because our idea is so unique. Having a mix between classic american dinners like burgers and breakfast food hasn’t been done before anywhere that I have seen on the internet. So the website I am comparing ours to is Matt’s Big Breakfast, www.mattsbigbreakfast.com. It’s idea is similar, loading people up with a ton of food would be apart of our real restaurant, so this is the next best thing.
Their website is a lot more trendy with it’s web design, and it emulates our folktale project as it is just a single page scroll down website with everything on it. This style of layout it’s something I really like, but because of the mountain of information on the site it is a bit too much to try and fit on one page. They included their entire menu on it, which I think deserves to have it’s own separate page.
Their color scheme of this rugged orange mixed with white is perfect for the type of style their going for. Their menu boasts a lot of meat for breakfast, so to have a meaty sort of color as your primary is something that really stuck out to me. One thing I saw they were lacking though was interactivity. There are no rollover or hover effects of any nature. Their graphic design work means well, but their logo and other small graphics on the site could use a little improvement. The logo itself, only three words, uses three different fonts, which really bothers me for some reason. The navigation is simple, you click a category at the top navigation bar and it scrolls down to that section of the single page.
Overall, I think there are some good elements here and for a small time restaurant it gets the job done. I’ve seen big chain restaurants that have websites a lot worse than this, and while everything is jumbled on one page, it is still easy to navigate to everything you need to find on the restaurant, which is the main goal of any website of this nature.