Starbucks and Crazy Mocha have two completely different websites. The Starbucks website has more going on as opposed to the flash-based Crazy Mocha site. Both are unique, yet effective in the way they display information and how their users are able to navigate through the information.

When I first glanced at the Starbucks website, I found it to be very sleek and modern, with their famous white and green color scheme emphasized. It is very complex in that it holds a lot of information and there is a lot going on on the website itself (links almost everywhere, a video, top stories, etc.). The site is balanced, however I noticed it has a fixed layout, which could pose a problem for web users with monitors that have a high screen resolution. The site is unified very nicely, with all of the main stories and events emphasized.

Crazy Mocha, on the other hand, is quite different from the Starbucks website. Although it is very simplistic, I found it to be the more pleasant and eye catching of the two. It is completely flash based, and offers a full screen view of the site, which you do not see every day. It seems as if the information a customer would want is very easily obtainable. Balance wise, although it has a large amount of white space, the site works in that the layout is not fixed and adjusts to any window size. The elements of the site work together to create a simple, user friendly environment.