How to Create a Simple Website for a Fish and Chips Takeaway [VIDEO TUTORIAL]

Hey there! If you're looking to build a website for your fish and chips takeaway, then you're certainly in the right place. Today, I'm going to be showing you exactly how to do that on the Mighty Sites platform. Mighty Sites is the easiest way to create a simple website for your small business. You can literally launch your own websites in less than one minute. It's super affordable; it's only going to cost you nine dollars a month, and there is a free trial available for seven days. You don't even have to put your credit card details in, like most other online services these days. So, click on the link below this video and give it a go.

Video Transcript

Now, once you join the platform, the very first thing it's going to ask you to do is to search for your market at the top. We have hundreds of different markets to choose from for different small businesses, solopreneurs, and people's various side hustles. We are adding more markets every single week. So, I'm gonna quickly head to the top, and I'm gonna go ahead and search for my market: fish and chips takeaway. There it is over there. Now, I'm going to go ahead and select that option. Awesome! Let's go ahead and tell Mighty Sites a few basic details about our fish and chips takeaway so it can generate a simple website for us. I'm gonna go ahead and pop in Master City and Master's origin as well. And it doesn't matter where in the world your takeaway is located; you can enjoy the Mighty Sites service. We have happy users from all around the globe. For this one, I'm going to leave it as "restaurants" and go ahead and click on "continue" and let Mighty Sites work its magic and create a simple website for my small business. And there you have it! It's literally done it in not even a minute. Let's take a closer look at what it's come up with together.

Now, the beauty of Mighty Sites is we've pre-written all the content for you as a guideline. Of course, we've also pre-selected all the images. They're all really high quality, as you can see. They're completely free to use, and they look absolutely delicious. However, I'm sure you've got some of your own amazing images of all the delicious meals you're serving up, and you want to showcase them on your Mighty Sites website. Maybe make one or two amendments to that content and add your menu? You can do that! It's super simple. So, today, that's exactly what I'm going to be showing you. I'm going to be walking you through each section quickly just to give you a brief overview of how the platform works and how easy it is to use. You don't need to know coding, you don't need to be a web developer, and you certainly don't need to hire a professional to help you either.

So, let's go ahead and click on the first section at the top, and I'm going to go ahead and put in my company email address. Let's make sure that box is ticked underneath to display our email address on our website. I'm now going to go ahead and pop our phone number in, and that is click-to-call, by the way. I'm now going to go ahead and pop in my street address, my physical location. And the great thing about that address? When your website is live and your customers click on that address, it will automatically take them to Google Maps to get directions.

Let's head on over to social links. Over here, you can put in the various social media platforms your business is active on. Icons will be displayed at the top, as well as at the bottom of your website. Let's go ahead and update our logo. If you don't have a logo yet, I do recommend you check out canva.com. Lots of great free options on the website. Logo has been uploaded. If you want to crop it to fit into the section a little better, add filters, frames, decorate it, zoom in, for example, go ahead and click on the little pencil over the logo. Once it's been uploaded, you can make it bigger and smaller on the right over here.

Now, with Mighty Sitess as well, we've pre-selected all the colors used throughout your website for you. If you want to change this to go with your branding a little better, go ahead and click on the little paint bucket on the bottom right-hand corner. No color coding needed! Go through the various color palettes available for you to use. There are plenty to choose from. I still really like the one that's already selected, so I'm just going to go ahead and save that one.

Now, for each section that you want to update, go ahead and click on "update section" and update the contents to suit your business needs. "Rats and Currencies, Order Online," but maybe you don't even offer an online ordering system. Go ahead and click on "choose link." You can link to another website if you do offer an online ordering system or an action like click-to-call, directions, or a PDF file, which is a great option to upload your menu for your business over here. And no, I'm not the only one that likes to take a look at menus for restaurants before I even go to the place just to pre-decide what I want to order, so this is for those people out there. Shout out to you!

Now, I'm gonna go ahead and click on "update image." You can browse your device and upload some of your own. Otherwise, search through the photo library. Hundreds of images to choose from. You can play around with keywords a little bit to find suitable images. So I'm going to go ahead and just search for fish and chips. You can have a look at the different photos available for you to use. Lots of suitable ones here. Awesome! Look at that! Everything's coming together so wonderfully over here.

An update section is where you can put your trading hours that your business is open in. They will be displayed in the section once you have popped them in there. If you have a custom domain for your business, go ahead and click on "connect your domain." So, I already have a domain. If you don't have a domain for your business and you really want one to make your website look even more professional, go ahead and click on "I want a new domain" because you can now purchase your domain via the Mighty Sites platform.

Really hope this tutorial was helpful in building a website for your fish and chips takeaway. Really wishing you and your business Mighty success. And if you have any suggestions or features you'd like to see in the future, do comment below and let us know. We'd love to hear your feedback.