Review 3

The websites for Six Penn Kitchen and Peter Allen’s are both very interesting websites. They both feature photos as their main focus of the hierarchy of the website. They both balance text and images on each page of the website. Though on Peter Allen’s the image is so dominant I over look some of the other aspects of the page like the navigation on the top, but as you scroll down the page a larger home navigation follows you down and has a drop shadow which makes the text hard to read. The main emphasis on every page is the image which has a movement involved like cheese falling onto pasta. As a whole the entire site is unified with the same layout on every page which is easy to navigate. On the Six Penn Kitchen site the nav bar does not move with the scroll which I do not mind the pages are set up almost always with an image and use a white or green text on a black background. The lay out of each page differs depending on the content, as in there is no images on the menu page and on the news and events page, each event has its own space paired with an image going down the page. As far as unity for Six Penn Kitchen, the entire site has a theme and every page matches that theme with out having the exact same layout on every page making it more interesting and less predictable. Peter Allen’s page really grabbed my attention at first with it’s large moving image but as I navigated through the page I got annoyed with the drop down nav bar that followed you down the page and the menu page did not give you a menu but more links which seems like a good idea but really was more work than it needed to be. Six Penn Kitchen was also interesting and with the dynamic layouts through out the site I felt it was a more interesting and better done site than just show casing a moving photo. The navigation was nice and mindless like in Krug mentions in Don’t Make Me Think. Every link I clicked on took me right to where I expected it to and not more unnecessary links. But at times the site for Six Penn Kitchen did seem a little wordy while Peter Allen was more image than words, Krug mentions how omiting needless words is a better design choice. But also Peter Allen’s had to much going on with the images and as stated in the book making the images create to much noise and is distracting from the actual site. Both sites have interesting aspects I feel Six Penn Kitchen meat most of Krugs ideals.