I am supposed to have a new website up for my Chinese takeaway ready for when all the university students start/return to school. I made a great start and nearly published it when I had an idea (oh dear).
My idea was to use an existing template available on the ComLuv network and add widgets and custom code to turn it into the takeaway website so I can put the relevant details about the business up and later add an interactive menu so customers can browse the whole menu online and add their own reviews and comments about the items.
This seems to be a pretty elemental project, not too much needs changing on a template and adding the extra bits of code that do the fancy bits wont take too much head scratching. Unless…. I decide to do it in a way so that I can write an email course about it with links to videos I make showing anyone with a takeaway how they can take a normal ComLuv blog and turn the template into an online menu and advertising board for their business.
Couple that with some regular tips and tricks I have used to get my takeaway to the top of Google for free when anyone searches for “chinese takeaway Lancaster” and I think I have a decent system and email course to help promote ComLuv.
Here’s where I’ve got to so far with one of ComLuv’s premium themes using a couple of fancy widgets and a bit of imagination..
I know it’s simple, but, it’s supposed to be! My whole idea is to have everything that is needed on one page. The location, the phone number, downloadable menu and a newsletter subscription for keeping in touch with customers.
I can use the rest of the wordpress goodies to keep a blog so the content stays fresh and I can surely find a way to add a shopping cart so people can make orders online and even perhaps integrate that with twitter so I can notify the kitchen an order has been made and also the customer can get a tweet (if they have a twitter account) when the order is on the way.
Awesome project!
Now, where did I put that bag of spare time ? lol
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Was wondering what you’d been up to lately!
Do you have another blog I should be subscribed to?
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I like the design … maybe you should consider making the header tags red to match the background? Always seems to add extra punch to a website design.
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hey witchypoo! I’m burning the candle at both ends (and the middle bit too) with offline work at the moment too. It’s just this blog and the comluv site that I’m updating at the moment.
I sorely desire more hours per day!
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You make working on your new Chinese takeaway website very easy. I usually struggle with templates and would wish someone can do it for me at a fee. I would love to do a restaurant site like yours for a client. Any suggestions who can help?
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testing comluv
.-= Andy Bailey´s last blog ..Update across the board for Blogger CommentLuv =-.
Hello Andy! That’s a nice template. You’ve been quite a busy man!
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To tell you, from my oint of view, I really hate editing templates. Always are going wrong on start
:)
Yes editing templates can give some results in no time, but not always good results.
Hi Andy,
Fun article, I use to build a lot of websites by editing templates aswell (normally using Joomla as CMS). There are some pretty good sources for free templates and stuff like that, even HTML templates with integrated scripts e.g. if you want to see some of the stuff I made you can check out my website title=”maketheweb.nl”> it’s in Dutch
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