For our reference website we choose the Medieval Times dinner and tournament. The restaurants concept is focused around giving an authentic jousting tournament and dinner. For our fusion restaurant we decided to focus the food more on a Mexican taste but having the atmosphere more of a Renaissance feel.

Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament have matched their website to that of the atmosphere with the restaurant. The main page shows only images of the jousting tournaments, not much of the food. That maybe because the whole restaurant is more about the experience of being there more than eating the food. The color schemes follow the colors of the knights attire; they use red, yellow, green, black, hints of blue, etc., solid primary colors on their webpage. They have chosen to only have three other pages: About the Show, Choose your Castle, and Bill of Fare.

The website is easy to navigate as a whole. They have the kind of graphics we were trying to use on our website (the opening scroll, the drop downs etc.), it adds to the feel of renaissance or medieval times. Although one of their downfalls is the fact that once you try to chose a location (Choose your Castle) you can’t seem to get back to the main page easily. There is a small close map that goes unnoticed, it would be easier if you could click the title for example to return. Once you do find the links they are incorporated into the design nicely (on the curtain pull for example). It would just be easy if you could click the title to return. The only time you can click the title is when you try to purchase tickets.

Compared to our website “The Knights Sombrero”, it follows a similar color theme that happens to be our restaurants theme colors, the Mexican and the Medieval. Ours will stand out because of the Mexican influence when it comes to food. With our fusion of Mexican and Medieval we choose to make our menu style similar to that, ie. the word choices and items offered. We also offer more pages to check out different things.

Overall, I think it represents the restaurant nicely.

Chelsea White