For this assignment, I chose to look at the website for a restaurant called Oriental Table. It’s a Chinese restaurant like my group did for our final project without the Italian side (since that combination does not exist anywhere). The website stuck out to me because it’s nothing too special and honestly, there seems to be a good amount to talk about on it. To start out, it’s very boring and dull. Color wise, it doesn’t fit well because after reading the section on colors in the Principles of Beautiful Web Design. The website is mostly made up of maroon, light red (pinkish), with bright yellow and black typography. The color red is a very dramatic color, and the maroon color on the website does not reflect that when I look at the website. Dark red if more of a rich color that makes me think of a fancy evening and like the article mentioned, I think of wine, not fast food-like chinese food. Also, yellow is a bright color which gives the feeling of happiness and energy. The fact that this website is really boring and has nothing to it, shows the exact opposite of energetic. The website also has no texture to it. The multiple rectangular boxes are just solid colors. If they added shadows around the boxes, that would create some texture, but there is no form of depth seen on the website. The biggest problem I have with the navigation on this site is that when you click on a new page of the site, there is no button to get back to that previous page unless you press the back button near the browser. I actually found myself on the menu page thinking there were no other pages included in the site. On the menu page though, while it’s a really long list, there is a button that can take the user right back to the top of the page at the bottom of each section. The buttons at the top do not show where the user is located on the page though. It becomes highlighted when you hover over it, yet it does not stay that way when you click on it.

I believe that the website that my group created for our final project will stand out more than this website because we have most of the components mentioned that this website does not. We have the color which is seen on every page of our website. The colors we used are bright and vibrant to attract people to our restaurant. We also have a textured pattern for out background. Just like Oriental Table, we don’t have a way of knowing where the user is located on the site, but we have a way to get back to the original page and all of the other pages which is easier than pressing the back button at the top.