Specifications for a restaurant website

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If you want to see what it should look like then visit El Loco in Sydney and check it on your pc and mobile phone.

1. Front page blog like functionality with RSS feed

2. Allow multiple categories in blog with individual RSS feeds.

3. Mailchimp email sign-up form front page in sidebar. Mailchimp takes RSS feed to make email. Email send to Facebook/Twitter.

4. Twitter stream in right hand sidebar

5. Facebook open graph tags on front page so Facebook like button works as one for Facebook page and webpage.

6. Menu pages in text (with pdfs also featuring)

7. Each blog update sends update to Twitter

8. Badges for Facebook like, Follow on Twitter, Linkedin etc and Foursquare across all pages.

9. Ability to create photo gallery from RSS feed of Flickr gallery. Or Instagram.

10. Location page: A Google map.

11. An open source content management system. Ideally WordPress but Joomla or Drupal are fine.

12. Ensure that you have a version optimised for smartphone viewing.

Ed Charles is a journalist and digital consultant who spend the better part of the part two decades in Australia. He trained with IPC in London and has written for major international and national business and lifestyle titles. Establishing this blog in 2005, he was one of the first of a handful of food bloggers in Australia. He's spoken at the Melbourne Writers Festival and Emerging Writers Festival and has broadcasted regularly on food and digital media issues. He is currently writing a history of mankind told through food.

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