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Restaurant Webmaster Directory/Website Information

October 27th, 2008 • admin • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

In order to develop the best directory page or website for you, we need the following information.

  • A copy of your menu (breakfast, lunch, dinner, specials, take-out)
  • Days open and Hours of operation
  • Address and phone number
  • A few of your favorite recipes
  • Any reviews you might have of your restaurant
  • A logo if you have one

If you were talking to someone about your restaurant, how would you answer the following questions?

  • What is your restaurant like?
  • What kind of food do you serve?
  • What is the atmosphere like?
  • Is your restaurant casual or formal?
  • Do you need a reservation?

Would you like to start a blog for your restaurant?  This is a great way to help your website get traffic from the Internet.  You can write the occasional article (two or three times a month) and ask people that work for you or even your regular customers to write the occasional 200- 300 word article about your site.  If you are interested in a blog, we have a couple of different solutions bit of which are no extra charge.  One solution is that we we will start a free blogger.com blog for you and teach you how to use it.  The other option is that you email us your articles and we add them to your site.

We also need some pictures of your restaurant (inside, outside, food, staff, customers, etc).  If you have a digital camera and are comfortable with getting the pictures on to your computer and emailing them then do that.  If that is going to slow down the process, go to your local drug store and buy a disposal flash camera with 27 exposures.  Take the pictures and then return the camera to your 1 hour film developer.  Have them put the pictures on a CD.  The cameras will cost you about $5.  The CD will cost about $5.  This is often the quickest and most convenient way to get us pictures.

Our hope is to keep the process as simple as we can for you.  The thing that often slows the processs down is gathering the necessary information.  You should be able to run through this list in under an hour.  Do the best you can to get us the information quickly.  You can email us this information at restaurantwebmasteronline@gmail.com or mail it to us (Restaurant Webmaster, 100 County Road, Big Pine Key, FL 33043).  We look forward to being your restaurant webmaster online!  If you have any questions use the Contact page to let us know.

Starting a Restaurant Website - Part 2

October 24th, 2008 • admin • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

This Restaurant Webmaster series of articles is here to help you start your own restaurant website. In our first article we talked out the different options available for starting your blog. From this point forward we will assume that you have a domain name and a web host and are using WordPress as your site software. We are setting up a site called Coco’s Kitchen as an example site. The site looks like this:

This is the standard Kubrik theme that comes with WordPress. One of the nice things about WordPress is that there are a lot of available themes to change the way your website looks. Many themes are available for free. If you want to get fancy you can buy a premium theme for $50 - $150 dollars or you can even have a custom theme developed for $300 - $1000. We are going to use a theme from Solostream for this site, but you can find a lot of themes for free by doing a Google search for Restaurant WordPress Themes. Here is the theme we are going to develop for our example site:

This theme has a nice scrolling feature which I think will make a positive impression when people visit the site. You want a theme that will catch people’s attention, and yet you don’t want it to look to cluttered. We also want to get the most important information we want to convey right on our first page. People may not go any deeper into your site so we want to make sure the theme we choose allows us to get our main information right into people’s faces when they come to the site.

In order to develop your restaurant website with WordPress you are going to have to learn how to download and upload files. I want to encourage you to read a series of articles I wrote on how to create a blog at www.mynewbieblog.com. Go to the My Newbie Blog site and read the articles called 50 Things To Do to Start a Blog from Scratch - Parts 1,2, & 3. Once you read these the articles you will be familiar enough with the basics to continue setting up your restaurant website. My Newbie Blog is filled with useful information about most of the topics you will need to master in starting your own restaurant website. We will continue working on our example site in our next article in the series.

Welcome to Restaurant Webmaster!

October 20th, 2008 • admin • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

The Restaurant Webmaster site is here to help provide restaurants with a variety of Internet services. These service include affordable website packages, Internet directories in cities around the country, and restaurant website consulting services. These Internet services will help increase traffic not only to a restaurant’s website, but also to the restaurant itself. Next to word of mouth, the Internet is where people turn for information about restaurants. We look forward to working with you in the future as your Restaurant Webmaster Online.

Take some time to browse through this website to acquaint yourself with our services. If you have any questions please use the Contact page to let us know!