Seriously…is there any excuse for poorly designed website anymore? Over the past week, I’ve found myself continually frustrated with the design on websites (specifically that of restaurants). There’s not thought and text has just been thrown in front of me hoping that I’ll read the long winded essay before hitting that oh so tempting back button. It’s safe to say that the internet is the number one stop for consumers to research options and make their decisions. And that decision can easily be altered by a poorly designed website….even if I’ve heard great things about the product or service. If you aren’t displaying your pictures with your menu, promotions, contact info (all reasonably simple things to ask for) and I can’t even find pictures of what I can expect when I step through the front door of your restaurant, you’ve lost me.

Cash might be your only excuse now. Why’s that? Because there are an abundant of internet tools that make life so much easier on the website creator (and for very affordable prices). Most of them require very little coding and allow for very cool customization features if you’re willing to throw in a little more money.

Check out some of these great tools:

1) happytables: Hello any restaurant’s saviour!

2) unbounce: Great for creating landing pages and promo’s

3) TeamTreehouse: If you want to learn website design and coding.

Let me know if there’s any other tools you would use!