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Sally's Bakes

Sally's Bakes is a local vegan bakery in Bury, Manchester. She makes really delicious vegan pies and pasties, as well as cakes, cookies, and cream eggs, and delivers them to businesses and homes across Manchester and nearby.

The homepage of Sally's Bakes, showing a colourful green and pink design with pictures of her cakes and pasties front and centre. There's a Facebook feed, links to social media pages, and "Home", "Menu", "Blog" and "Contact" pages

Who this page is for

If you landed here looking for Sally's pies rather than her website, head to SallysBakesBury.co.uk - that's where the menu and the ordering details live, and I can't bake anything. But if you run a small food business and are weighing me up for a website, this page is a fair picture of what a build with me looks like, and vegan businesses get my full 50% discount (the details are on the prices page, along with everything else I charge).

My solution

I created a simple website that clearly shows Sally's menu (with clicks through to ingredients) and makes it really easy for customers to learn more and get in touch. The site includes all the important information about her products, delivery areas, and how to place orders.

Sally needed a website she could easily edit herself, and so this site is edited through simple text files in a "Git" interface, which might sound technical but is really straightforward.

Technical details

  • Static website built with Jekyll
  • Hosted on Bunny CDN
  • Perfect Lighthouse performance scores
  • Contact form built with FormSpark
  • Spam protection via BotPoison
  • Facebook page integration
  • Links to Instagram profile and HappyCow listing
  • Git-based content management
  • Fully responsive design

Ongoing support

As a website customer Sally receives personal support to implement strategies from my free marketing guides and videos for business promotion. I provide occasional technical help, though her Git-based workflow is largely self-sufficient - Sally edits the text files and the site rebuilds itself. I optimised the site for local search terms and it's ranking pretty well on Google for the searches that matter to her.

Results

The site gives Sally a professional online presence where customers can easily find product information and place orders. It connects all her social media profiles while remaining simple enough for her to maintain herself, allowing her to focus primarily on her baking business.

What it costs

A build like Sally's is a modest job: I charge a flat £200/hour and vegan businesses get 50% off, so £100/hour, with hosting from £5 a month for a simple site like this one. There's no lock-in - Sally owns her code, so if she ever wanted to host it somewhere else entirely it'd be free, and I'd help her get set up.

Source code

The complete source code for this project is available on my Git forge. If you own a small food business you can use it to build a website for yourself. Or, you can use the contact form below to get in touch and I can make a site for you too!

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