Launching A New Website for The Grill in San Fransisco
I’m very happy to share that we are launching a new website this week for The Grill, a restaurant in San Fransisco that specializes in burgers and sandwiches.
We built the website using the latest standards both by using HTML5 but also by using some of the new features in WordPress 3 to create a powerful yet easy to use backend. Let me a take a few moments to go through the new website with you.
Built Using the Latest Standards
The Grill’s new website is built using HTML5, using the Modernizr framework to allow older browsers to see and recognize the website properly, supporting all browsers apart from Internet Explorer 6.
For flexibility, two grid systems are used throughout the website. Firstly, the main structure is built up by the 960 grid system which makes it easy to quickly develop a website. In order to make it easy for the client to continue updating the website, we use a second, fractional (percentage based) grid system to create and build columns for the content pages.
Running on WordPress
For this website, we decided that WordPress would be a good fit for the client since it is a smaller Content Management System (CMS) that is easy to learn and also isn’t too heavy for a simpler website.
Thanks to the new custom post types in WordPress 3, we have set up a custom section for posting and managing ongoing specials.
Making the site easy to update and maintain was crucial and the WordPress Shortcodes API helps us build some useful shortcodes for the client to be able to add elements such as columns to posts and pages without having to write any code.
The Grill’s website is the first website we launch based on our own Ilmenite framework. This framework is solely used inside of XLD Studios for all of our WordPress themes, giving us a good starting base for themes, allowing us to start from a pre-packed bundle that contains what we normally use in a WordPress theme.
