The theme I choose for today becomes very tasty for owners of all kind of restaurant. As you guess this time I teach you how to create an inviting website which perfectly represents your restaurant to prospective visitors.
This tutorial will teach you how to make a website for a restaurant on the basis of a wed design templates. As usual, I will also give you advice concerning domain name and hosting provider.
Choosing a template design
The most advantageous way to create a nice-looking website is to take an opportunity of ready-made web templates. I recommend you to review website templates provided by TemplatedBusiness. It offers high quality design templates that can be rapidly customized to meet your project needs. Here you will find both restaurant website templates and restaurant Flash templates that correspond to the main web standards and concentrate on the customers' core requirements both in terms of usability and information. So, my choice is 24005.
Nice combination of refined palette and pattern, rather useful layout solution, choosing this template is a good way to make your website inviting.
After a purchase you will find HTML-version and source PSD file of the main page, fonts which are used in the template and some screenshots in the archive.
Have a low-budget project? FreeTemplatesOnline.com offers quality free web templates that will help you save not only time but money.
Template Customization
We are now coming to the template customization. But if you feel that you don't have enough experience or time to go through the whole customization process, you may take the opportunity to use Template Tuning services. Here you can order the template customization at an affordable price. Their web developers will skillfully make all necessary changes for you. But if you are not afraid of difficulties, then let's go on!
To perform all necessary changes you will need Adobe Photoshop CS+; Adobe Dreamweaver 8+ or any other HTML editor.
Before you start you should install necessary fonts (usually they are placed in "sources/fonts" folder- in this tutorial you'll find more detailed description of installation process. After that open .psd file in Photoshop and let's learn how to make necessary customization.
You should choose Horizontal Type Tool on Tool Panel (it is usually located on the left side of the working area) and make left mouse button double click on the title "Gourmet".
Well, the layer is ready to be modified. Just enter your restaurant's name.
After renaming the template we need to save the customized logo replacing the existing one. Choose Slice Select Tool and make the selection.
While the slice is still selected, go to "File" -> "Save for Web and Devices" and just press the Save button using the default settings. Save this file to the Image directory replacing the file logo.jpg.
The next step is to customize the menu buttons which are made as pictures. And if you even don't want to modify them, you need to re-save them anyway. Don't forget that the menu buttons have 2 modes: active (the striped style) and inactive (without the strips). That is why each of them should be re-saved from the other menu pages.
Customize all menu buttons on the Home page and re-save the images.
The good news is that all titles in this template are made with the web safe font Trebuchet MS and can be easily modified with the help of Dreamweaver or any other HTML editor.
So, all changes that should be completed with the help of Photoshop are done. Let's open index.html file in HTML editor and customize the text titles.
Well, the Home page has been successfully customized! Actually, let's customize the other pages.
"Our menu" Page
With the help of HTML editor place the whole list of the dishes. Your prospective visitors will be glad to know the prices and the features of the cuisine.
After that modify the other pages: About us, Reservation, Specials and Contacts. All actions should be performed in the same way, so I guess there is no need to repeat what has already been said above.
On the Contact Us page write your postal address and customize the contact form. For contact from implementation you need to have some PHP programming skills and while I don't have them I recommend to order it from TemplateTuning website. They said that it will cost you about $60 â?? for any type you choose.
Choosing a hosting provider
When choosing the hosting services you should be guided first of all by other people reviews, prices and quality. On this basis I recommend you webhostingbuzz.com.
If you experience any troubles with registering a domain name or hosting you can always contact TemplateTuning.com professionals.
Website Promotion
You may find a lot of website promotion services all over the Internet. But probably, one of the most reliable among them is website promotion services from Web Design Library. It offers:
- Search Engines Inclusion
- Website Analysis Report
- Keyword Research Report
- Link Building Campaign
- Link Analysis Report
- Search Engine Optimization Report
- Search Engine Rankings Report.
There are two packages:
- Standard package: it would be great for new websites
- Pro package: a complex approach to website promotion.
There is no monthly fee. And by ordering a pro package you will get a 30% discount. Moreover, if you purchase a website template from TemplateMonster.com or TemplatedBusiness, you will get 50% off on the SEO services provided by Webdesign.org. You don't need to learn the secrets of search engines algorithms in order to increase your ranking, because everything will be performed by qualified SEO specialists.
You can visit sample website to see the final result or compare your code.
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