Moriarty’s Pub and Restaurant
In true blogger fashion, I am presently writing to you from a coffee shop in sunny San Diego as I scour the 74-degree city for a new home. But before I launched myself on this quest, I also launched a new site for a popular local restaurant in my former town of residence called Moriarty’s Pub.
One of the warmer and more interestingly-crafted sites I’ve done in a while, this site details all the goings on at Moriarty’s, which is one of the most densely decorated, true-to-form Irish Pub-feeling restaurants I have been in. From traditional Irish cuisine to your basic Pub fare with a Philly twist, this place is really one of the best places to frequent any night of the week when your looking to have a meal with some style. An upgrade to their former site, it is actually a hack of the popular WordPress platform that I have been going on so much about in my posts. This new online home for the restaurant takes the usual Content Management System-like capabilities of WordPress and bends it a little to meet the clients needs. Blogging: not their thing, not particularly necessary for their market and clientele. An updatable list in the sidebar detailing their weekly drink specials: that was what they needed. So, a little recoding here, a little PHP restructuring there, and I was able to pull together a site that not only are they able to update weekly, but is also an inexpensive CMS option in which they can make periodic updates to the main body content and imagery galleries throughout the site. Happy customers all around!
Another sweet and simple site that me and my business partner Cindy have been working on is the webpage for the Light Of Love Spiritual Foundation. Straight forward XHTML/CSS, this site is one of the first sites that me and Cindy worked on as a team. Whereas I am usually the web-guy at incompra, and she handles the print, Cindy worked closely with the client very closely and took a very successful stab at creating a beautiful PSD template that I then transformed into the site. Coding-wise it’s nothing to scream about, but from a collaborative stand-point a resounding success! Go Team incompra!
In the next few weeks I will be working on getting some more detailed descriptions of these sites on my sites page, as well as moving the bulk of my sites over to my new host, HostMySite.com, who so far have been a killer host… check them out! But first: San Diegan Apartment Hunting!
