You should be able to change your own menu
If changing a price means emailing your web person, something's wrong. A short argument for websites you can actually edit.
Picture the scene: it's 8pm on a Friday, the new specials are on the board, and the price on your website is wrong from last season. What do you do?
The 8pm test
If changing a price on your website means sending an email to someone and waiting until Monday, the website is costing you more than it's making. Prices, hours, photos, sold-out dishes — these things change all the time. They should take minutes, and they should be yours to change.
What should be self-serve
- Menu items and prices — including marking something sold out for the day.
- Opening hours — bank holidays, weather, refits.
- Photos — your new window display, or a dish that's actually in season.
- News — a closure, an event, a new face behind the counter.
What shouldn't be
Design, page structure, anything that could break the site. You don't want to be rearranging the beams; you want to be changing the poster in the window.
How I build it
Every site I build has an editing side that looks like a simpler version of the website itself. Tap the thing you want to change, change it, save. I'll sit with you until you've done it once on your own — that's the bit that actually makes it yours. And if you'd rather not touch it at all, that's fine too: that's what the care plan is for.
The best compliment a website can get is being used. Yours should be.