Author: Hannah Daman

Hannah Daman

 

 

Review 4

 

For this review I will be comparing the restaurant my team and I have created to a restaurant that would be considered to be competition if this company actually did exist. I will be comparing my site with the site of Chipotle. Their site has a navigation bar at the top linked with the menu, nutrition, facts of where the food came from, whats new in the business, catering options, delivery, and a feedback page. There are buttons to the bottoms of the nav bar with sub categories of the main nav bar. Under that they feature a slide show containing pictures of their food with a small description off the the side of them. Under that are images that you can click on to see more information about each food on that slide. Pictures of the ingredients are shown along with drink options, and sides. At the bottom there is an area that has all the links to their social media accounts, and a find near you search bar. Their layout is very bright and playful. It makes you look at it when it switches from slide to slide every 4 seconds. The pictures make you actually want to eat the food and the colors are vey much associated with the restaurant. Very easy to navigate and order online! On the website that my team and I made we have a navbar at the top of the page that scrolls along with the window. The nav bar contains a home, menu, about, and contact button to send you straight to the section of the page you are looking for. The logo along with our company name is centered with a button linked to our menu just below it. Hours are briefly stated at the bottom of this page as well. The menu accounts for starters, main wraps, and desserts, clicking on one of those buttons will lead you to the corresponding tab and its contents plus pricing for those items. The next page down is an About section where we get to tell the customers all about the company and staff. Hours are listed under these bios. We then linked a google map to the selected location to our building in Pittsburgh that is interactive. Under that we listed our contact info for any complaints to be filed plus a way to reserve a seat and place your order online. I think that our layout is basic but effective and is interactive with the viewer.

Hannah Daman

 

Professor Ames

 

I chose to compare burgatory and madmex’ websites. Madmex’ site uses a series of muted colors associated with the restaurant’s color scheme. There is a banner at the top with a photo of the inside of the restaurant with their logo laying underneath it connect to a menu bar. As you scroll down the menu bar attaches to the top of the screen and the logo shrinks a bit. The balance of the site seems to be leaning to the left because the block of text with their news information in it is smashed together.  The photos to the right of the copy are a little boring sliding between 3 photos left to right. At the bottom of the page rests another menu bar with comments, about, privacy and search listed for easy navigation. Based on the color scheme the page seems unified but the typeface chosen for the text makes the eye uncomfortable to read. The layout is somewhat basic and sort of unappealing. As for burgatory’s website theirs is vibrant, modern and done tastefully. At the top of the screen is a nav bar showing the menu, their locations, news, merch, some kind of member sign up, contact, and their social media accounts with the burgatory logo in the center. Under that is a slideshow of various images of customers and staff members enjoying themselves at the restaurant. The titles for the different sections are 3 to 4 times bigger than the text underneath of them showing great visual hierarchy and style. Under this there are 3 panels one to sign up for the mailing list, a thank you message to the customers and a link to “join the crew.” Burgatorys layout, visual hierarchy, and balance is all accounted for while madmex’ site is jumbled up and messy.

Hannah Daman

Intro to Web Design

Professor Ames

February 20, 2018

Review 2

I choose to review the single page website called Tignes. Originally in Italian this page can become confusing fast unless you can figure out that the little white circle in the top right of the page can change your languages. Once you get past the language barrier, this site is well organized. The layout of the “main page” or first thing when one would see when opening the site is very attractive. The title Tignes is in a very large, bright blue typeface with a contrasting background of the mountains and a lake behind it. At the bottom is a bright blue, moving arrow pointing downwards towards more content. As you scroll down it transitions into a dotted background keeping that same bright blue in all of the background images and layouts throughout the page. The typefaces for each chapter, heading, subheading, paragraph and even all of the first words of each paragraph have a playful image on them. This makes the site easy to scan because you don’t have to search for hours and hours for something that you’re looking for. Just read the huge header, if it has anything to do with the topic you’d like to know more about keep reading! The overall design of this site is very playful and subtle. With all the flat, heavy black text on the page it needed that little bit of blue color to bring it back to life. The actions the site provides with each section is sure to keep any viewer entertained and intrigued.

Hannah Daman

Professor Ames

Review 1

January 24, 2018

For my first review, I chose to use eBay. I honestly use eBay a lot. Probably on a day to day basis. EBay is very simple to use. To search for an item, you want you tap on the little magnifier labeled search, and type in the name of an item or a keyword associated with that item. Next you would tap on the picture of the desired item to further inspect it. After you decide if you want the item or not you would tap on the big blue button that says either “Buy it now”, or tap on the button just below it that says “Add to cart”. EBay doesn’t make you think at all when you are searching for anything which can be a dangerous thing for a shopaholic. They have inserted the most basic of functions onto their website and mobile app to ensure that customers of all ages can see what is on the screen and also can understand how to manipulate it. The most important things on the site are displayed at the bottom of the screen sorted in little tabs. These tabs can let you travel to your profiles home page, a page with products based on your previous searches and purchases, notifications from the site or people you bought items from, and also gives you an option to sell items yourself.