How to Make a Simple Website for a Health Food Store [VIDEO GUIDE]

Thanks for joining me in this video. Today, I'm going to be showing you how to use the Mighty Sites platform to build a website for your health food store. Now, if you've just randomly come across this video today and you haven't heard of Mighty Sites yet, 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. So, make sure you click on the link below this video, sign up for the free trial, and give it a go.

Video Transcript

So, once you join the platform and register, the first thing it's going to ask you to do is to search for your market. We have hundreds of different markets to choose from for different small businesses, solopreneurs, and people's various side hustles, and we are adding more markets every single week. So, I'm gonna head to the top, and I'm gonna search for my market: "Whole Food Store." There it is, over there. I'm now going to go ahead and select that template.

Awesome! Mighty Sites has a few basic details about our health food store, so it can generate a simple website for us. Let's go ahead and put in a city and our state or region. Awesome! Let's go ahead and change this type of business from restaurant to retail, click on "Continue," and let Mighty Sites to work its magic and create a simple website for me. And there you have it; it's literally done it in not even a minute. Let's take a close look at what it has 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 pre-selected all the images as well. They all are really high quality, as you can see, and they're completely free to use. However, I'm sure you've got some amazing images of all the different health products you're stocking in your store, and you want to display them on your website. Maybe make one or two changes to the content; you can do that. It's super simple, and today, that's exactly what I'm going to be showing you in this video tutorial. I'm going to be walking you through each section from the top to the bottom, giving you a little bit of a look and feel of how the platform works and how simple it is to use. You don't need to know coding, you don't need to be a web developer, and you don't need to be a web professional either. So, let's get cracking.

I'm going to click on the first section at the top, go ahead and put in my company email address, as well as my phone number. Let's make sure that box is ticked to display my email address on my website. I'm now going to go ahead and put in my phone number, as well as my physical location, my street address, and postal code. Awesome! The great thing about that address is when your customers click on it, Mighty Sites will automatically take them to Google Maps to get directions to your physical location.

Let's head on over to "Update Social Links." Over here, you can put in the various social media platforms your business is active on. The icons will be displayed at the top, as well as the bottom of your website, so customers can easily give you a follow and get some engagement going.

See what your business is up to. Let's head on over to updating our logo. Now, if you don't have a logo yet for your business, I do recommend you check out Canva.com. There are lots of free, great options on the platform. Awesome! The logo has been uploaded. If you want to click on this little pencil over here, you can slightly crop your logo to fit into that section a little bit better. You can add filters, decorators, frames, rotate, zoom in, etc. Awesome! Let's go ahead and re-upload our newly cropped logo. You can make it bigger and smaller.

Awesome, let's move along. Now with Mighty Sites, we've pre-selected all the colors used throughout your website for you. Basically, we wanted to make it as easy as possible when it comes to launching a simple website for your health food store. Maybe these colors don't quite go with your branding, your business cards, your signage throughout your store, and you want to change it. No color coding necessary; click on the little paint bucket on the bottom right-hand corner, go through the various color palettes available for you to use. So, that one actually looks really stunning. I'm going to go ahead and select that one.

Let's head on over to "Upgrade Image." Now, over here, browse your device and upload your own images if you've got them. Otherwise, search through the photo library. There are hundreds of images to choose from, all completely free to use. Mighty Sites will automatically search for "health food store". You can play around with the terms, the keywords a little bit, search for various other terms like "health food", for example, or just "healthy", and just play around with those keywords a bit. Let's go ahead and potentially select that one, maybe look at one or two more pages.

Awesome! I'm pretty spoiled for choice here, not entirely sure which one to choose, but I'm gonna go ahead and select this one for now. I can change it at a later stage if need be. Let's check it out - that looks lovely.

Let's head on over to "Update Contents". Now, over here, you can change the title and subtitle to suit your business needs. The button currently says "order online". Maybe you don't offer an online ordering system, maybe you just want it to say "get in touch" or "get directions". Okay, excellent! Let's go ahead and choose a link. If you do offer an online ordering system on a third-party website, go ahead and link to the URL here. Otherwise, link to an action like click to call, directions, or click to email, which I'm going to go ahead and put. Otherwise, you can upload a PDF file. It's a great option for your current promotions and deals if you're running any.

Awesome, over here again, pre-written content, the button can link to various places. Click on "Update Section" and work your magic.

Awesome! We've now made our way to the "About" section. Over here, you can put a little bit more details about how your business came to be, how long you've been in the health food store industry, maybe a little bit more details about the staff running the show, your team, perhaps a team photo over here. Go ahead and put all the details of your story, how your business came to be, why you chose to get into this industry. Your customers would love to hear your story.

We've now made our way to the "Services" section. Over here, you can put a little bit more details about the different services or the products you stock. Do you stock nuts, grains, seeds, dried fruits, flours, dairy-free milks, vegan ready-made meals? Do you also maybe host yoga classes or workshops? Go ahead and put all the details under the services section.

If you want to add your trading hours to your website, click on "Update Section" over here and head over to "Update Hours". Put in your various trading hours, click on "Save", and they will be displayed in this section.

Now, if you have a custom domain, go ahead and click on "Connect Your Domain" over here. If you already have a domain, go through the various steps to link it. If you're struggling, there's a YouTube tutorial available by the way on our channel. Otherwise, with Mighty Sites, you can add Mighty Sites as your host, and we will link it for you. If you don't have a domain yet, maybe you've recently launched your business, go ahead and click on "Buy a New Domain". You can now purchase your domain via the Mighty Sites platform. With a professional website, a custom domain is really important to make your website look super professional.

I really hope this tutorial was helpful in building a website for your health food store. Wishing your business Mighty success, and if you have any suggestions or any features you'd like to see in the future on our platform, do comment below and let us know. We'd really love to hear your feedback.