I chose to review no9park.com and primantibros.com. Both websites seem to be setup in a similar way when you scroll down the pages. No. 9 Park is displayed in a simplistic and effective way. It gets their message across, without too much being flashy or in your face. When scrolling down the page, the website tells you about the location, the team, and gives you ways of keeping up with the restaurant on social media, contact information, hours, and links to other parts of the website. At the top right of the website, there are tab options in simple and readable font. The tabs are, “Reservation”, “Menu”, “The Bar Room”, “Private Dining”, “Wine Program”, “Cocktail Classes” and “Upcoming Events.” All of the tabs work and link appropriately to their respective categories. When mousing over the tabs, they change to a darker color to emphasize that you are on the correct tab and make sure you are clicking on the right one. When you are on said tab, the color changes to a light blue color to show you which tab you are currently on. The light blue color keeps with the color scheme the website has going on. Everything on the screen is very balanced, centered and put together. There is a lot of negative space that works well with helping keep things balanced and adds to their simplistic look.
The other website I looked at was Primanti Bros website. It has a similar setup with scrolling down the page and having a landscape setup as you scroll. On this website, there’s not a lot of negative space used like in No. 9 Park. They have a lot of pictures that fill out the screen in different sections explaining different things. They have some tabs in the upper right of the screen similar to No. 9 Park, but they function a little differently. The tabs they have are the, “Locations & Menus,” “Order Online,” “Our Story,” “Promos,” “Shipping,” and “Jobs.” When you mouse over their tabs, a box will appear around the tab to clearly show which tab you are mousing over. When you are on the page you select from the tabs, it does not change the color of the tab like it does on No. 9 Parks. The logo on the top of the page gets bigger and brighter when you mouse over it, so you can click it to go back to the homepage. Everything on this website is as well balanced, but in a different way from the other website. Theirs is balanced with all the of the stuff they have on the pages, it brings unity to the website as a whole, keeping each page consistent. They put an emphasis on certain buttons on the page with a blue color. Everything else is mostly red, beige, or black, but the logo and social media for example, have a blue color to them to bring emphasis to them.
Both of the websites I’ve looked over and reviewed are both very pleasing to the eye, and function is different ways. They both are easy to navigate, clean and concise.