What I want from a restaurant website: The Oatmeal

Trust your designer

I love building websites, especially with WordPress. I really enjoy sitting down with a business owner or marketer that wants to revamp their online presence with a new or redesigned website, social media branding or to brand-up their email marketing templates. And I really anticipate digging in and uncovering every little thing that will propel [...]

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We don’t need no stinking website!

Hard to believe there are still restaurants, b&bs and smaller hospitality businesses that DON’T have a website. At least not one that they own. And I get it – why spend all that time and money developing an online presence (and voice, image or video library, personality, brand loyalty, thought leadership, etc) when review websites, [...]

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Good designers won't let your brand down - Deep Dish Creative

No, you’re not going out dressed like that

If your biz is engaged in social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, or a blog, you know its not something you can just set-and-forget. It takes a significant chunk of your time to cultivate your online personna. Whether for personal branding or for your business, staying on top of your outreach keeps you on the [...]

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Falling off the social media bandwagon

For the regular visitors to DeepDishCreative.com, you may have noticed a few gaping voids in content over the past 3 months or so. There are a few valid reasons for that, but still, no excuse really. Especially with tools like Hootsuite (Twitter dashboard) and the fact that this website is built on a WordPress platform [...]

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Why I love working with biz’s that GET social media

Most of my design clientele, like restaurants, hotels, event marketer-types, have been very slow to get on the Social Media bandwagon. Not for lack of interest (mostly) but for lack of time and inclination. After all, its just one more thing they’ve got to manage in their busy schedules. As far as they are concerned, [...]

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