For this Restaurant website review, I chose Peter Allan’s Italian restaurant and No. 9 Park. First, I looked at the home pages of each of the sites. These are two very similar restaurants in the choices that they offer and the theme that they have. They are both very elegant or high class restaurants, therefore their website should show that right off the bat. I believe that they both show that they are higher class on their home page in the layout and the pictures that they use. They use pictures of food on white plates that look clean and professionally done. The clarity of the navigation on both of the sites makes your choices practically mindless like Krug talks about in the reading. They also don’t have a lot going on on the homepage which makes the picture of the food the center of attention. This shows how they use the important things Krug talked about in the reading. He talked about keeping the noise down. Noise is referring to the extra stuff on each page. Both of these sites keep their extra stuff to a minimum so that the food is the central focus. This is carried though out both of the sites. This helps to unify the site. Also, This shows how Krug was talking about getting people off on the right foot. The pages and easy to navigate and you can clearly find the menu, about the restaurant, contact, and other necessary parts. Krug, also, talks about making navigation easy and effortless. Next, I looked at the menus for these places. The next thing the Krug talks about is omitting needless words. The menus on these sites are short and to the point. They give enough information for the customer to know what they are ordering, but not too many words that they don’t even want to finish reading. I know I hate when restaurants have such long and complicated descriptions because its hard to understand and it makes me loose attention to it. The next thing I looked at was the layout of the actual site. Did everything look like it lined up and look like it was supposed to be there. I believe that Peter Allan’s website looked pretty good. There was a nice header at the top. The text was easy to read. I would have to say that there was a bit too much white space in the menu portion of the site, though. It started to hurt my eyes to look at all that white. Also, I don’t like how the heading part comes down when you start moving the page. I believe that it should stay visible, but it looks like it is delayed in coming down the page. No. 9 Park’s website looked cool. I like how well the side navigation works for their site and I like the contrast in the colors of the pictures to the side navigation. One thing I do not like is that the information under each of the pictures is lined up with just the picture and not the entire grey box. I believe that is looks okay for all the section but the menu. I believe that it looks completely messed up for the menu sections and throws off the balance of the site. In my opinion, I believe that Peter Allan’s Italian Restaurant is the better website at drawing your attention for a few reasons. The first reason is the layout. No.9 Park has some issues with its layout that make it look off balance. Peter Allan’s is layer out in a way that balances it and unifies each page together. Another reason that Peter Allan’s website is better at drawing your attention would be the pictures. Their pictures move and the movement makes the food looks so much more appetizing than static pictures. No. 9 Park show pictures that are not always of the food and do not seem to be as intriguing to me as Peter Allan’s. All in all, these are both decent websites, but I believe that Peter Allan’s is definitely the better of the two.
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