Here at Restaurant Webmaster we are continuing in our series of articles to help you develop your own restaurant website.  We have been developing a sample site called Coco’s Kitchen so thatyou can see the process in action.  We have referred you to a series of articles on My Newbie Blog that detail how to create a blog.  These articles will step you through the process of what you need to do to get a solid foundation established for your website.

We have just taken the Coco’s Kitchen site through that foundation laying process.  We added some plugins to help make the site function better.  We used the following plugins:

• WP-Backup - Creates regular backups of the site and emails them to our gmail account
• WP-Upgrade - Makes staying current with WordPress easy
• Statcounter - Helps us to see how much traffic the site is getting
• Akismet - Catches Spam
• All-in-one-SEO - Helps the search engines find the site
• Contact Form 7 - Adds a nice contact page

We also changed the permallink structure for our articles.  This is really important.  Your permalink structure needs to be /%postname%/.  If you haven’t already made the change do it now.  It will be important for the future SEO (search engine optimization) of your site.

We also added a header logo to the site.  A good logo can add a lot of credibility to your site.  We design our own logos at restaurant webmaster.  We added a simple logo to the Coco’s Kitchen site that reflects it Florida Keys location.  If you would like us to design a logo for you we can do it for $75.  Here is where the site stands now:

In our next articles we will begin to add the pages where we will eventually have menues, reviews, and articles.  We will also begin to add some pictures to give the site a more professional appearance.