Red Rooster House (Restaurant) Website

As I was finishing my first website (this one you’re on), I overheard my friend’s dad speaking to him about needing a website to be done in time for the opening of their new restaurant: Red Rooster House. Spurred by how enjoyable designing my own website was, I decided to take a crack at designing a website for a business. I knew this would entail different aspects to the design than I possessed on my personal website; modern restaurant websites have a certain feel and look to them. They’re clean and elegant while maintaining a straightforward composure needed to convey their message and menu to their customers. I started the design process by sitting down with the owner of the restaurant and determining what he’d like on the site. Once I gathered the required info, I got to work scoping out some of the best modern websites for restaurants out there. They followed a theme, and I was able to implement this quite well on the home page. Photography was incredibly important. I designed the entire website using filler images which can be seen through the commit logs on my GitHub. Once I got the general layout set, I told the restaurant owner that I’d need to come in and take a series of pictures to use for the website. He was very accommodating to my requests and the process was undergone within one night. I edited the pictures and substituted them for the filler ones on the site. I then designed the logo that you can see on the navigation bar from scratch, using Adobe Illustrator; this logo is soon to be used on business cards and menus for the restaurant. Everything had started to come to my vision and the last thing I needed was a personal touch from the family that owned the restaurant itself. I had them write any areas that would include paragraphs or personal statements, like the about section. The final touches were improving ARIA accessibility, as well as the most painstaking part: realizing that PDF files don’t render every page for mobile device browsers, meaning I’d have to convert the PDF to HTML. This was not as easy as it seems, as a lot of formatting was lost in the conversion. All in all, the site was a success. The family that owned the restaurant was elated with the result and I was able to help my community in a small way. The site can be found at redroosterhouservc.com.