Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Basil Thai Restaurant

Basil Thai restaurant is a simply laid out website with a primary and secondary navigation. I could easily tell where the navigation was right when i entered the website because of its placement in a green bar. This color popped off the screen so i automatically wanted to look there first.  The secondary navigation is as very clear as it appears when one of the primary navigation buttons is clicked on.  The secondary buttons are housed inside of gray bars and the buttons are also in a different typeface than the primary navigation.  All of these factors seem to make this site easy to navigate.

The sites architecture is not very deep and I dont believe that it needs to be.  Since this is only a website for a small restaurant with two locations, it is not very important for them to have a deep architecture that could confuse the user.  Usually when a viewer goes onto a restaurants website they want to see a select few things such as the menu, hours of operation, and directions. This website is architected to highlight those points very clearly while still having smaller interesting sections regarding their awards and the chefs.

The typography on the page seems to be working well and the hierarchy of the type is very clear.  The use of smaller type as well as grayer type help to show that some things are secondaryb to others.  the headings are large enough that i am able to see cllearly what section I am in.

The grid structure of the website is very simple and is consistent throughout each page.  With each click of the mouse, only a small portion of the page changes inside the concrete grid structure.  This helps to make the site very user friendly.  The large photograhy seems to be working well for this site.  I wish that there was more variety on the secondary pages however, possibly something like on the homepage which has a simple slider. The colors are working wel al around, they are very clean and sleak and the green pops off the page very nicely.  The photos really stand out well against the white background as well.

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