I know that this restaurant has probably been already reviewed but I like the website as well as the restaurant. As soon as I opened the website I was immediately impressed with the flash content used showing good imagery of an Italian restaurant theme (what is expected of the site).
They have used quite a vibrant colour which I thought would be to extreme though I have to say it actually works quite well as the website does cover the whole page, they have also kept to the same colour scheme and so I feel the colour works well. Adding the flash content is a bonus as I always feel that having this interaction always makes the site a little more interesting and keeps the users intrigued.
Another point that I like about the restaurant site is that they have the menu on the site rather then a PDF format making it less time consuming then having to wait for another file to load. The menu is laid out in a professional menu layout making it easy for the users to understand however I don't understand why they changed the page size for just the menu and nothing else. All of the other pages are to the same page size and its just the menu at a different constraint, this is the only major fault that I could find on the site.
The website meets all of the needs that users need from contacting the restaurant to information on career opportunities. What I did not realise before visiting this site was that 'Zizzi' is joint restaurant with 'ASK' and their website is in exactly the same layout as the Zizzi site but they have just change the colour scheme.
Overall this is the best design restuarant site that I have reviewed so far and I would like to design a site along design methods of this site because it has interaction, a good colour scheme and it gets my attention straight away.
Chiquito
The website for Chiquito's has kept to the theme of Mexican by the use of some simple imagery. As soon as I opened the site I immediately got the impression that the designers were trying to base the website around all ages i.e. a family, a part of the website that I have not seen on many restaurant sites is a kids base page. The designers have tried to incorporate some kids activities but what I don't understand is why a young child would search a site like this, so I feel that it was good interactivity but it won't be used due to the lack of young target audience.
They have used a good selection of imagery that show what food they have on offer (what the audience want to see) they have used bold colours but I get the impression that they have tried to neutralise them so they are not too much in your face.
They have the navigation at the top which is simple to use but they also have a small navigation directly under the main navigation which I was a bit confused however when looking closer it was actually more information. Maybe they should have put the navigation down the side allowing more space making it less confusing.
Once again the menu's are in PDF format which I strongly feel lets all these websites down because of the hassle of having to load another page. I feel that pages with the menu already printed on the site have a more positive response. Overall this site reaches its aims to advertise the restaurant and its food though viewers have to have flash player to view the gallery which can be a problem as not everyone has these resources, however the site gives out a strong Mexican theme and overall a user friendly website.
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