Author: tjbst211

For the third review, I looked at the latter two of three given websites, no9park.com and sixpennkitchen.com. Both websites are for respective restaurants, and upon first glance looked very good. I took time to review both websites page by page, looking in depth at their styles in terms of Unity, Balance, Emphasis, and layout. Both websites work considerably well in terms of unity, with all themes, pictures, text, etc matching up. Neither site overcomplicates things, which works to their advantage. We are taught not to overcomplicate things for the sake of making them look “prettier” or to even try and dazzle the viewer. Each website attempts to these things to their advantage to grab the attention of their viewers and customers, and they work very well. We as humans tend to find things that work, and then stick to that thing. When something works, there is a natural sensation for us to stick to it and not search further for other outlets. As someone who has never visited either restaurant in person, I can tell just via the websites that their simplicity along with their calm color schemes would prompt me to look no further in the search for a quick bite. There’s no part in particular that stands out, giving both sites a good sense of unity. When it comes to balance, the SixPenn Kitchen uses a block layout with no option to scroll, their homepage is solid and very balanced. No9Park is balanced decently well, but their navigation bar runs along the left side of the page, with pictures and information in the right column. As you scroll down, the navigation bar doesn’t scroll with, which bugs me. After you scroll until the navigation bar is out of site, the website becomes very unbalanced and leans more towards the right side. It’s small inconveniences like this that may throw users off, causing them to change sites or even get temporarily lost and frustrated. It seems ridiculous, but it’s something that has been proven time and time again. When we go to a website, if it doesn’t immediately load then we can get frustrated and automatically start to refresh or restart. We as human beings are naturally very impatient with small things, especially technology. When looking at emphasis, both pages are very even. The only common emphasized thing on each page is the logo of each individual restaurant, which is what the user should be viewing when looking at the pages. No9 has a huge rotating slideshow at the top as well, which is another point of emphasis. The slideshow displays images of meals prepared by the restaurant, something users may like. Finally, there’s layout. This to me goes hand in hand with balance. No9Park is a dark layout and theme, very simple, with rotating pictures of different dishes and other various things on their homepage, with an equivalent theme on each page. The same can be said for SixPenn, using a cool blocked layout and theme to make everything easy to view. When picking which site is better, I am biased, but I have to choose the SixPenn Kitchen website. I am a sucker for the block layout with no scrolling, it makes things easier for the viewer to navigate, and confuses the audience less. Their is also a better overall color scheme, incorporating a cool orange to make different things on the website pop out at the viewer. Hats off to the SixPenn website design team, overall a very well done website.

For this review, we were supposed to find a single page website from OnePageLove and analyze it in different ways, shapes, and forms. When looking through the site, the website I chose to look at was Kod & Form, or kodochform.se, simply based on the bright colors used for the layout. Upon reaching the site, I was very intrigued by the color and texture of the page, and think that the styles used overall worked very well. Each different section or “page” of this single page site had it’s own unique color scheme, but no scheme in itself varied too much from any other. The textures were very nice, and to the eye the site was ultimately pleasing. When it came to navigation, I was a tad bit annoyed. I personally am a sucker for different text boxes and hyperlinks that help you jump and move around on the site, which this page offered none of. There were no clickable options until you reached the bottom of the long single page site, and the only way to get to the bottom was to manually scroll to the bottom yourself. The text along with other various things confused me as well, but I came to the conclusion that the makers of the site were most likely from Sweden, which ultimately made the alternate text okay.

Overall, I think the site is done very well. I wish the navigation was easier, but the fact that the site was easy to look at makes up for it. People’s eyes have to physically meet the site first before they even begin to try to move around on it, so to me, look is a world’s more important than any other feature of a site. I think the site is a 7.5 or so out of a possible 10, with obvious room for improvement, but overall a well-done job.

For this specific review, I chose to look at the Puma website when buying shoes for running. I chose a pair at random and selected to add them to the cart. Being someone who has a slight history of work with web design and the amount of different things it takes to create a website feature like this, it really is wild for me personally to think about this. The first thing that happened when I added the item to the cart was a new window opening, prompting me to sign up for the Puma website and subscribe to their newsletter. Although to some this may be annoying, in the long run it can be a very smart tactic, considering there’s probably a lot of people who follow through with the instructions rather than skipping the process. That pop-up in itself probably takes a great deal of coding to be able to perfect. The next window showed my cart, which is something that really made me think. This website along with most websites have the feature of a virtual cart, which carries specifically chosen items from page to page, keeping them in line and ultimately allowing you to eventually check out. It begins to give me a bit of a headache when I think about all that goes into this.

The cart feature definitely makes it easier for people to find and buy things they’re interested in, and probably prompts users to be able to buy more items easier and faster. I felt as though the site could be navigated rather smoothly, and was also very pleasing in it’s look and layout.

For my first review, I decided to take a look at the website of one of my favorite clothing brands, Supreme. Their website is supremenewyork.com, and they’re based on a skateboard/streetwear company Supreme that has been around since 1994. I personally have never liked their homepage, it’s very minimalistic and the setup is nice, but the look isn’t very pleasing. Nonetheless, the homepage is extremely easy to navigate. It shows you the logo and gives you options to visit an about page, an information page, review clothing catalogs from previous seasons, and also an option to shop online. The online shop for Supreme’s website is very cool, and is personally one of my favorites. It opens up with small rectangles pictures of all the sites various clothes, with options to click on them, or simply browse the site’s catalog. The site runs very smoothly, and in essence is very pleasing to work on. They do a good job of keeping everything up to date, and overall I really like the site.