{"id":966,"date":"2012-04-23T11:09:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T15:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/?p=966"},"modified":"2012-04-25T14:45:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T18:45:15","slug":"the-sewickley-hotel-brock-switzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/the-sewickley-hotel-brock-switzer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sewickley Hotel-Brock Switzer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sewickley Hotel is a tavern style restaurant in Sewickley, PA. \u00a0The restaurant features a variety of food for breakfast, lunch and dinner from many different nationalities. \u00a0Much of this website links a user to pages outside of the website itself. \u00a0For example, the &#8220;directions&#8221; link takes a visitor directly to google maps with the address of the restaurant typed in. \u00a0Another example is the menus which take the user to a PDF file with the menus that can be saved and\/or printed. \u00a0This feature is both\u00a0convenient\u00a0and at the same time distracting and makes navigating quite difficult. \u00a0When visitors to the site are forced to leave it with several links and then press back to get into the site again it is easy to get distracted and lose interest in the content on the main site. \u00a0A simple fix would be to have the menu actually present on the site but provide patrons the option to go to a printable PDF version at their leisure. \u00a0The map could follow a similar solution in which the &#8220;directions&#8221; link on the page takes a visitor to an actual page on the site with information as to the restaurants location but also has a link on the page that the user can click on to bring up the adress in google maps.<\/p>\n<p>Another problem this website faces is that the content and links are very small and do not expand to fit the size of any window. \u00a0The size makes it somewhat difficult to read and makes it feel less complete and professional. \u00a0Simply repeating the background and expanding the content area slightly would make the site feel more open and free as well as give off a sense of completion and professionalism.<\/p>\n<p>One very positive aspect of this webpage is the color pallet. \u00a0It feels very rich and deep with reds and oranges. \u00a0The homepage text mentions the &#8220;warm and cozy&#8221; atmosphere that the restaurant offers and the color pallet helps add to that sense of warmth and friendly environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sewickley Hotel is a tavern style restaurant in Sewickley, PA. \u00a0The restaurant features a variety of food for breakfast, lunch and dinner from many different nationalities. \u00a0Much of this website links a user to pages outside of the website itself. \u00a0For example, the &#8220;directions&#8221; link takes a visitor directly to google maps with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,79,78],"tags":[37,21,35,38,36],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bi-weekly-review","category-section-a","category-student-work","tag-bi-weekly-review-2","tag-brock-switzer","tag-intro-to-web-design","tag-restaurant","tag-sewickly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}