Review #3

I decided to do my review on Outback Steakhouse and Burgatory. When I think about a restaurant website the first thing I think of is their menu. Well on both websites I had to look in the right corner or scroll over things to find the actual menu. Krug says to keep the noise down to a dull roar. To me it looks like both websites are shouting to show what their main food product is. I get the point of the website is to show what their food looks like without actually being in the restaurant but as a customer I can clearly see that Burgartoy sells burgers and Outback Steakhouse sells steaks. I did see that Burgatory show cased their “heavenly shakes” as well as their “helluva burgers”. Personally I would like to see both websites “show off” their other food products as well as their main product. The emphasis is definitely on their main product. Like I said early both websites show cases the main product as the first page when someone searches the website and then the menus and other important things are in another tab. Once I found out where the menus where located it was super easy to find out other foods they make. Krug also says to make it obvious what’s clickable. Outback uses underlying and colors, while Burgatory uses shapes, tabs, and color. Outback’s layout consist of having the right panel being bigger than the left panel. This creates a sense of balance because the items that are in the left panel co-exsist for what you press in the right panel by having big white text. Once I was looking through the website and click on a food item in the right panel a picture of it and a description popped up in the left panel. Burgatory uses the layout by having the important information in a middle panel, the menu on the right side, and less important things on both sides. This design also works well because it lets the viewer know that the most important thing that you are looking at is right in the center of the page. Overall I like Outback Steakhouse’s website better because of how they incorporated their food items in a simple non-noisy way.