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House of Desserts

Lutterworth's newest dessert shop came to me seeking a new, easy to update, and super fast loading website to show off their menus and contact information.

House of Desserts website, showing menu categories with colourful photos of tasty desserts

At the time, my Chobble Template didn't have any built-in menu support, so I thought this would be a great opportunity to add that. Many restaurant or cafe websites have their menus hidden in PDF downloads that are awkward to navigate and hard to copy/paste from. I wanted to make something that was as easy to edit as uploading a new PDF, but much more pleasant for visitors to use.

By setting the system up to work with PagesCMS, the nested and flexible menu system can be edited - for free - without requiring any technical know-how. If we want to update the system in the future to store more data or be organised differently, it's probably a really simple tweak.

Pages CMS - a CMS system for static websites hosted in Github

Whenever the business changes their text through the PagesCMS editor, the site is re-built in less than a minute. This fast feedback loop provides all the benefits of static sites - really fast websites that can be hosted for cheap - with the flexibility of a full content management system.

Because the site is based on the Chobble Template a tonne of other functionality is available built-in, ready to be activated whenever the business fancies:

  • News posts
  • Events
  • Reviews
  • Products
  • Team profiles
  • Galleries

..And more to come! I'm always improving and updating the template, and because it uses Git, every change and version is stored - so we can roll back to any point in time to fix any issues you have.

If you want a website for your restaurant or cafe, check out the Chobble Template - it's open source and free for anyone to use. And if you want me to build you a website based on it then get in touch!