Restaurant Website Design Services.

Designing a website for a restaurant involves many different challenges to designing a website for a solicitor, shop or many other trades. Restaurants are not generally involved with selling directly through their website and not offering general information. It is very unlikely that for a popular restaurant people will be randomly searching for local restaurants, but it is possible.

For most restaurants, a website is working alongside a reputation and existing marketing. There may be potential customers considering where to hold their Christmas celebrations, birthday party or other celebrations and reviewing the menus. These people will probably want to print the menus and pass them around the rest of the party. And for ultimate ease, they might even like to book online, through the website.

This means that what is involved in designing a restaurant's website is totally different to other types of websites. It must be easy to find by its own name, contain menus and maybe a gallery of events and functions rooms. And an effective and prompt online booking system is essential!

For an online booking system the request must arrive quickly. That's where we use SMS messages so that the enquiry is delivered in seconds to your mobile phone. You can then book the customer in and phone them back, within minutes of their enquiry. How impressive!

We also allow plenty of time to update your site throughout the year. Adding new seasonal menus for Valentines, Mothers' Day, Easter and the festive season is a useful way of not only getting more traffic to the site, but also interesting the search engines. Some sites like monthly updates whereas others are just adhoc. We work with you to see what sort of charging model will work best for you to cope with the changes that you require. And we'll remember to save some maintenance time before the busy seasons to update all menus!

Costs vary from site to site, but for a typical small restaurant website, of up to around 8 pages, you can expect us to be charging around £300, which includes registering a URL and hosting the website. We can also throw in a handful of SMS credits for you to try out the booking system and we can give you an easy admin system if you want to update any parts of the site a lot, or we can maintain the site for you. You can see some of our recent work to the right, we can send you links to these websites for you to view more closely.