Brandi Calhoun

Intro to Web Design

Monthly Review 2

http://www.forkedriverbrewing.com/

The single page site I chose to review is for Forked River Brewing Company. They use a kind of navy blue, white, and gold color scheme throughout the page, which creates great contrast for easy reading and viewing. The background when you first enter the page is a photograph of two beers, one of which you can see the condensation and head on the beer just like it is right in front of you ready to be sipped. The company is outlined and introduced. To view the rest of the page, you scroll down. Also, across the top of the website is each individual section of the single page website for easy access to “The Beer,” “Our Story,” “The Brewers,” etc. From the beginning on, the background switches to white, then navy blue, and then white with skinny, subtle light blue diagonal lines, and then yellow-gold, and back to white. These color changes catch your attention when scrolling, and help you realize that you have come across a new section of the single page website. The logo, name of the company, and navy blue headline stay put at the top of the page as you scroll and so do the titles for easy access to different sections and the Facebook and Twitter links. The web designer chose easy-to-read fonts and made the headers clear. Also, at the end of the website is a map showing exactly where the brewery is located and gives the reader all contact information and hours very clearly.

I think this single page site is very successful. It is both attractive and convenient. It is also interactive with the viewer – when scrolling down a beer glass slowly empties every time you scroll down a little more; and fills up when you scroll up. The website is clean looking, but yet stylish too. The colors, textures, and images all fit well together with the beer company theme – very bold and strong. The only problem with the design of this website, as with many others though, is that some content is cut off on either side if you are not using a big screen, which hinders the interactive parts and some of the images. Other than that, you can clearly tell the website is for a beer company, no doubt about it, and can navigate it very easily.