The restaurant Piccolo Forno would be competition for our restaurant, as it is both located in Pittsburgh and is a higher class Italian eatery. The website has a good layout to it, the images and text fit nicely on the screen, with the image sitting the full width of the screen. On the home page it has a quick snippet of background information and scrolls down through links to the menu and finally ending with their hours. The color scheme works very well for their restaurant, with a deeper red, a green, and a cream. With the Italian cuisine and the typical Italian colors it works well, they are also very clean with adds to the classier feel. The navigation for the site makes the view flow from page to page. They have a navigation bar at the top with their logo to the far left that returns you to the homepage. The menu page is laid out very nicely with even spacing and it is easy to follow. The descriptions beneath the entree name is short but gives good information. With each individual heading only containing one page it makes it easy to navigate throughout the site, without drop down menus or a stack of pages to go through to find information. Compared to this site, I would say that ours is just as easy to follow. Though our menu does have a drop down in the navigation bar for individual menus such as wines/drinks/entrees/desserts. I would say that theirs seems a little bit more colorful and bright which would help keep the viewers attention, so that is something that we can change on our site. But something that will make our site stand out is that we do have a good amount of images to go with our site, with photos of our food, drink and location that run across the top of every page.
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