Category: Site Review

I think how my group’s website would compete with Burgatories website would be a difficult challenge. Since both of our websites are closely related with layout, pictures, and the menu bar. I think we have multiple options to click more than Burgatory with the navigation on our website with different restaurants. The colors are a lot brighter on our website which may not be a good thing to some viewers for sensitivity reasons. Burgatory is easier to see since it has darker colors. Even the textures are a bit different with each other since our website is a lot more color full with pictures than Burgatories. Our effectiveness with guiding through our content I think is better than Burgatories because we have a top bar and a bottom bar so not just one but two to choose from to get to certain areas. But overall I think ours does stand out good because of the layout and colors. Seems that our classmates/viewers really liked it.

Cardello Pizza is a restaurant that could be considered competition for my group’s fusion restaurant, Slice Cream. While I cannot find any pizza and ice cream restaurants near moon, this is a pizza restaurant not too far from campus.

When it comes to color, Cardello Pizza primarily uses whites and grays, using red as an accent color. Like I mentioned in my previous review, I think red is always a smart use of color for restaurants, because it stimulates hunger. Many restaurants utilize this, however, so I think the oranges and browns of Slice Cream could help it stand out. I have always been a “light” fan when it comes to color over “dark”, so I do really enjoy this color palette and think it gives off a calming yet effective making-me-hungry impression.

There isn’t too much to note on texture for this website, though I do enjoy the pizza oven graphic that is telling me my cart is empty. I enjoy the bricks, which seem to add some texture, as well as the arrow and writing because they look handwritten, which is a nice, fun texture. Whenever you hover over menu items, the outline of the item becomes black instead of gray, so that also emphasizes texture and motion, keeping the eye intrigued.

Looking at the overall layout and organization, the website is mainly just one really long page. You can scroll for quite some time on the home page and find the entire menu, as well as the “About” section all the way at the bottom. The header of their website features their hours and address, which I think is very smart and beneficial, but the only other thing you can press is an “About” button, but all this does is take you to the bottom of the page.

The only time you are transported to somewhere completely new is when you select either “Pickup” or “Delivery”, which takes you to the same location no matter which one you pick. I think they one-upped us by having the hours and location at the very top, but I think we had a better layout by being able to select more things on the top which took you to different places, rather than our website simply being primarily one page.

I also think we could stand out over somewhere like Cardello Pizza because we have a cohesive theme and style throughout the entire website. We maintain the same design elements, while Cardello seems to just shift willy-nilly from thing to thing. Their menu is also very unsettling and seems very long and unorganized, they could have laid it out much better, and even had tabs for different items. They should have an entire new page for their menu items and lay it out much more neatly.

Overall, our website could of course use some work looking prettier, but I think our overall layout and organization beats theirs in terms of user friendly and composed in a nice manner, which could make us stand out.

Our most obvious competition is Burgatory. I think their whole “devilish” look is kind of a sham, while we own up to our devious ways.

Burgatory’s site keeps true to their dark-but-not-fully-black and red aesthetic. I’ve never fully understood that, as Purgatory isn’t Hell, but I think they have a pretty good thing going so I can’t really cast any criticisms.

The full-page carousel is kind of striking. Past that page, though, it almost looks like every tab was made by a different designer. They’re all fine. I’d say the Join the Crew page is the strongest. And the buttons on Order Up look a little dated. They’re all a sort of off-white to almost suggest burnt paper. Like it would be in Hell.

I think at the top of the page they throw a lot of destinations at us. You’re a burger joint; how complex can you be? But in terms of navigation, they give us everything there is in that first look.

I think our sites are similar, as we’re similar establishments just at different levels of establishment. I think our site definitely benefits from the homepage burger carousel. And not just because I’m in it.

Review 3

The two restaurant sites that I am comparing for their use of balance, unity, emphasis, and layout are Burgatory and No. 9 Park. To start with Burgatory’s website they have a simple design of using red and black colors to show off their site. The use of balance in this site is good on making it easy to read. Everything is centered on the website whenever you stroll up and down. The pictures on the site pop out because they have borders on them. There is also a place on the homepage that is sectioned off that you can scroll though the pictures. The text is bold and easy to read for the viewers eyes. On the No. 9 Park’s website, it has more content. There are different colors that contrast the images that you can scroll down through. The picture is fixed so just the text in the box moves. Everything is contained in separate boxes so you could easily identify the content. I would say that the No. 9 Park restaurant caught my eye more because of the color scheme and the layout of the website. It has nice pictures of the area and inside of the restaurant. They have the text inside of the pictures describing the culture and their values at the place. It also seems like the color contrast stands out more on this website as well.    

For this review, I chose to compare Franktuary and Burgatory. I immediately was much more drawn to the Burgatory website, as I felt the design was much more appealing. Burgatory heavily utilizes the colors black and red, and I think the balance between these two colors is very strong throughout the entire website. I’ve heard before that the color red stimulates hunger and is used heavily for food chains, so I think it was a great choice, especially paired with black to make it stand out and contrast. This is similar to Franktuary’s primary colors used, which are white and red. 

Another example of balance for Burgatory is towards the bottom of the home page, there are three images of the same size placed next to one another. One is about ordering online, the middle is to join their mailing list to get a free birthday milkshake, and the third is about joining the crew. I was surprised to find something extremely similar on Franktuary’s website. Toward the bottom of the screen for this one, there are three images of the same size placed next to each other. They are “Franks”, “Poutine”, and “Libations”. Similar to the images for Burgatory, this is very satisfying and exhibits great balance. My one complaint with this, however, is that clicking on any of these three images takes you to the same spot; which is just the general page for the menu. I think it would be better if it took you to their respective sections on the menu.

I do think both websites exhibit strong unity. Both Franktuary and Burgatory maintain the same style throughout their entire website. They have the same fonts and design features, such as fonts and image designs, throughout their entireties. Looking at the design element of emphasis, I think the most emphasized thing on Franktuary’s website is the photo of the frankfurters found once you scroll a little bit down the website. You first see the food truck and how to book it, but then you find a very large image of some of the items. This is similar to the giant image of a burger you see when you first arrive at Burgatory’s website. I would take a page out of the burger joint’s book for Franktuary and begin with the giant image of the hot dogs, and then put the part about booking the truck, so that users see that first and are intrigued. 

In my opinion, I think the overall layout for Burgatory is much stronger than the one for Franktuary. Both sites have similar design elements, but for Franktuary, it focuses more on finding the truck or booking the truck than what the truck is actually selling. At the header of the page, you can click on “Book the truck”, a button that takes you back to home, or “Find the truck”. If you wanted to find the menu, you would have to scroll all the way to the bottom and click on one of the three images. Burgatory’s header, however, has many features including the menu, and much more. I also enjoy their rotating images that you see when you first arrive at the website because it keeps the user intrigued. 

A single page that jumped out to me on One Page Love is laluofficial.com. It was described on the website as, “Wild and colorful One Pager…built for vocalist, dancer and Latin Grammy award winner violinist La Lulu”. Upon further examination, I found that it certainly was nothing short of “wild and colorful”. The reason I was so drawn to it was due to its vibrant colors and fun graphics. There are bright blues and purples immediately on the page, along with vibrant yellows which contrast very well.

The site uses texture well when you first arrive at iit because it features images of La Lulu in polaroids, and it layers cartoonish images on top of them, such as a diamond or a smiley face. Some of the polaroids are also layered on top of each other. This gives great dimension to the page and makes you as the viewer feel as though you are immersed in a space with these images, rather than them being so static.

To navigate the page, you are to scroll up and down, as you typically would for any webpage. On the top right of the page you are able to find La Lulu’s various social medias and places to listen to her music. At the very top of the page, there is a yellow bar which has words moving from the right to the left like a news bar. It has emoticons and emphasizes that her new single is out now. This is similar to the yellow bar at the very bottom of the page, which has constantly moving text of her logo for her name, and further her brand. The constant movement on the page is very intriguing to the eye and instantly draws your attention.

Overall, I think this website is extremely well done from a design standpoint. The bright, exuberant colors instantly drew my attention to the site, and it has many complimentary colors that contrast well with one another. There is also constant motion on the page and many layers of fun images, as well as dynamic shapes, that give off great texture. Scrolling throughout the page almost felt like looking through art rather than a typical website, and though I knew absolutely nothing about this woman prior, I suddenly felt very intrigued by her and her story just by the way the website was designed. 

For my final site review, I decided to review https://shalomjapannyc.com, a fusion restaurant of Jewish and Japanese food. Where the one chef is Jewish and the other is Japanese, being the two chefs at the restaurant. The website was constructed in a simple and clean way, I found their color palette giving a sense of calmness and being at home. Their font choice also makes the restaurant look elegant and professional. I do however believe that their layout for their pages is very basic and doesn’t give them a feeling of being original or unique. Where my groups fusion restaurant I believe has a better layout in certain pages. For example our menu page is neatly laid out where their menu page is done in a single column making the page too long and not look professional. Our Header also seems to be better where when resizing their header it seems to get messy, our header stays intact and even changes when the website gets too small. One thing I did like about their website is their footer, I liked how they used they laid out their information, without having too much negative space. I would like to implement a footer in our website as I think that would make out website look much better.

How I think Burgatory and Franktuary are placed out and the balance of them is done nice. They both show a lot of unity and emphasis to their websites on how clean and simple it can be used. But in my opinion, I think Burgatories site is better. Buragtory seems to have many more options to select from as to saying the menu, order online, about info, join their team, and even a communication tab. Were as to Franktuary they only have a couple selection buttons and when I looked through them, it wouldn’t come up to the right page. I definitely feel like Buragtory is better at getting someone’s attention because of how many options they have to look through and all of the nice details with pictures and the sites layout motion.

When looking at the website for Burgatory I can tell immediately that it has a cohesive color palette. When I first clicked on the page I noticed on the top it shows the logo for Burgatory. I thought the background was black but it is a dark burgundy. Both contrast each other nicely also the bright red of the logo causes emphasis on the logo. The website holds a good balance between light and dark colors. I appreciate this because I’m not burning my eyes looking at a fully white screen but I also don’t have to turn up my brightness to see the page. The website also has great unity in the use of fonts. Furthermore, the complete layout of the webpage is clean and seamless. The design also provides great useability and is easy to use for many ages. The following website I looked at is No.9 Park. This color scheme is different from burgatory, it consisted of brown, white, and aqua. However, brown is only used on the top border of the website, and aqua is on the bottom of the page. Otherwise, the webpage is mostly white. It’s simple but I feel it fits the aesthetic of the restaurant. No.9 Park seems to be on the higher end of standards so the simple feel is fitting, It does bring a sense of unity to the website, and having the colors at the bottom and top of the page creates a balance. I also enjoy the font they used throughout the page since it is sort of elegant in a simple matter. Very fitting for the aesthetic of the restaurant and fits the whole vibe.