One of the reasons for using WordPress is that WordPress is for blogging.

However, there are reasons for using WordPress even if the blog is only a very minor part of the site, or if the site doesn’t include a blog at all. WordPress is easy to use: you don’t have to be a techie to add or update content. If and when techie help is required, the size and helpfulness of the WordPress community will make help relatively easy to find.

I should add a personal reason. One of the reasons I’d set up a web site at little or no cost to the business is to establish a client portfolio so that I can charge more realistic rates to clients I add later. This portfolio will consist mainly of WordPress sites.

The front page should be very simple. It should give a flavor of what kind of restaurant this is. It should provide the address and phone number, perhaps opening hours, and a few other things. There may be a lot at the site, but this other content should be linked to from the front page, rather than included on it.

I’m in favor of simplicity because when people go to a restaurant page, they often have questions such as: is it near here? is it open right now? They are often on a mobile device, and with limited screen space and bandwidth. (That’s as technical as this post is going to get.)

It’s a good idea for a restaurant web site to include a journal, or blog. Although it shouldn’t be the main page, it’s useful to keep the site fresh, to encourage readers to return, and to provide something to which people can subscribe.

Suggestaurant is:

• A template for restaurant web sites. I may well be creating web sites for some local restaurants soon. Although each site will be very different, I do have some ideas on how staurant web sites should and should not be.
• A place for you to make suggestions about restaurant web sites.

I’ll update this post when the site is close enough to the template I have in mind to be ready for suggestions.