Making a restaurant website

I am opening my restaurant in a month and I want a website. I am looking for something that is easy to use and update like Joomla. I've been searching the internet for hours, I can't seem to find anything. I am just looking for a joomla template or something. I have dreamweaver and I know basic websdesign, but I need it to be professional. Any suggestions?

 

I'm not sure I understand your question - if you want something like joomla, why not use joomla? or drupal as an alternative. If you're looking for joomla templates - well, there's no problem in finding those through google, there are loads out there - if you have a little knowledge it's generally easy enough to tweak the style sheet if you don't find exactly what you want.

 

Ill suggest you to go for custom wordpress Theme design, it will be easy to use and im sure you'll need to update it frequently.

 

Yeh i would also say WordPress for a simple restaurant website Joomla is like using a machine gun to crack a nut.
Or even just use a static HTML page, chaces are that your not going to have daily updates...?
Regards,

 

What sort of restaurant would it be? Fine dining or family dining or something else? I might have some ideas but if I knew the demographic you were aiming for that'd make it easier to come up with a useful suggestion

Congratulations on your new restaurant, btw! My girl would be exceedingly jealous!

 

As you are talking about a CMS, I am assuming you are going to be making regular updates?

If not, you would be just as well doing a static site. I did a site a few years ago in a similar niche and did it this way because they didn't need regular updates and it gave me full control over the design.


Dee

 

Congrats on the new business! That is one tough niche you have selected. The Best of luck.

I would do a static site if there isn't much updating going on.

A ton of templates here.
http://www.templatemonster.com/category/cafe-and-restaurant/

I'll drop in for lunch some day

Good Luck

 

I do suggest you outsource the website job to other so that you can concentrate on your biz.
Here you can find the joomla template
http://www.bestofjoomla.com/

 

Thanks for all the replies. I am not really looking to update the website frequently, I just thought joomla would be nice because it is easy to manage. I sort of got the idea of joomla after I found this really cool site: www.letseat.at they have some really good stuff there. If you take a look at www.letseat.at , you'll see that it has tons of features, but unfortunately I cannot edit the HTML because they place their ads right on your site. So my question is, is there anything out there that is as simple and powerful as letseat.at?

 

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My 2 cent contribution *wink*

 

You can use wordpress because it is simple and easy to use. Joomla is quite complicated.

Regards
GSolOnline

 

Joomla is complicated dats true, i suggest u download some templates online.

 

if you think joomla is complicated, i suggest you stay in school.

using pre-built systems like wordpress and joomla etc etc are very amateur, if you want something professional you'd make it yourself. (html/css/php/mysql).

 

I did this restaurant site in Joomla (still working on it--as we speak) and was able to find I think the only reasonable alternative to OpenTable--which happens to be a Joomla app. It still needs work, but it's getting a LOT of compliments from people AND the reservation system is working well. If you need any help, feel free to pm me. (I've been working in Mambo/Joomla for years.)

MarqsInMenlo.com

 

What do u mean dude? mind u everyone can't be a PRO, remember we all started from somewhere.

 

Congratulations! I agree, Wordpress is a good choice. I recently tried Wix's Flash website builder. You might want to try that out too.

 

A website for your restaurant is no longer an option—it’s a necessity. Between hosting, design, and updating, it can get complicated and expensive… but it doesn't have to be!

With a LetsEat.at restaurant website, hosting is a matter of signing up, designing a matter of choosing a theme, updating a matter of signing-in.

 

What about the domain? Is the domain yours? or it is something like www.letseat.at/yourrestaurant ? You need a domain to be yours and constructed / defined in a way to propagate the name / logo of your restaurant as to be easily then optimized for search engines.
By the way, the layout of site you indicate looks like a blog/wordpress theme (it has articles in the left side and links in the right). You can easily buy a domain and customise with wordpress.com themes. I also use a template at my site taken from wordpress.com. Just in case (might be a small chance however) your restaurant is for vegetarians, you might want to take a look at the template I use (i.e the site is The Doctor and The Vegetarian therapist) just for inspiration when decide for your layout.
Good luck with your restaurant!

 

I am with you dude....

 

I know it's a little bit old topic but in case if someone would need a restaurant template, I just finished one with full identity package, which includes A4 paper, envelope, standing and laying business cards and a menu brochure. Here is the link: Wordpress 3 Theme - Restaurant