Conflict Kitchen- Review 4

For the final review, I looked up a restaurant called Conflict Kitchen and looked at the design of their site. Something interesting about the restaurant is that they actually change their style and design every so often. They serve food based on countries that the U.S is in conflict with at the time, and currently they are serving Palestinian food. The layout of the restaurant site is very interesting, where scrolling is the main function of the site. On each page, the main information is at the top of the page, with an image behind, and more additional info, you scroll down, and the navigation bar is consistent through each page, and the layout is consistent where the information is laid out and crisp. The text is balanced, and images do not take away from the text. Along with the layout, the texture of the site is very visual, but interesting. The textures that are used as the main background are used throughout the site, as well as the actual restaurant. They use this as their brand, and change it based on what country they are focusing on. The texture also designates the color of the site. The colors that the Conflict Kitchen used were colors from the textural banner at the top of the site. They consistently keep purple, black, red, white, and yellow. The colors work well together, except for some white text over the pictures. Some text is hard to read, but overall the colors work great together. According to the Principles of Web Design, red symbolizes excitement and passion. Purple symbolizes royalty and power, as well as extravagance. Yellow shows energy and happiness. Black, finally, is often negative, but it can show power and strength. Overall, the colors work very nicely together. Navigation works great as well, and leads the viewer around without causing problems. The site maintains the nav bar through every page, and is clean and understandable. Overall, our website could be comparable to this through our color choices, and it would be nice to mimic the image use of this site, as well as navigation that is understandable. Our site will stand out through images and colors, as well as possible textures.