I observed the websites of “Six Penn Kitchen” and “No. 9 Park” for the purpose of this review. While both of these websites serve as homepages for restaurants, they could not be more different in my opinion. First I shall review the layout of both the sites as well as recall my experience navigating them. “No.9 Park” has a much more professional look to their website. Due to the nature of their food choices (more expensive than average meals) they have opted for a more developed site to give a classier feel. It uses a neutral light grey background to enable the viewer to observe the site with little eye strain. It also uses a scrolling parallax effect which appears to be common for restaurants attempting to appear luxurious. I think the organization is great and is a great example of Krug’s “scene from a mall” example from the text. As soon as you open this website you are greeted with the beginning of their menu. This eliminates any useless searching to find what most users are observing the site for in the first place.
Six Penn Kitchen however, couldn’t be anymore different than No.9 Park’s website. When I opened the website for Six Penn Kitchen I thought I had made a mistake as It didn’t appear to be a finished or completely developed website. The first thing I naturally did was find somewhere to click as the site’s only visible information is a sentence announcing the establishment’s closing date. It appears that all of the “clickable” areas do not have any effect on the webpage. In the bottom there are squares of different colors that may at one time housed the different food offerings at the restaurant. Krug stated in the text that in his opinion whenever you visit a website you are first likely to be looking for something which will lead you to “ask” or “browse” first. Upon realizing that this first homepage gave me little to no information about this restaurant, I did in fact look for anywhere on the page that I could find information. The only thing that can be learned from this webpage is that they are closing on February 17th, and that they serve steak and one other dish judging from the only visible pictures of food.