Local Restaurant Web Design & Email Campaigns

One of my favorite restaurants needed help designing a new website, so I decided to give it a go! I found a great template on GitHub and worked with Mario, the restaurant owner, to add his photos, menu, and a new contact form, powered by Google Forms.

We didn’t stop at the site. Mario wanted to email his customers with specials, events, and updates, without his messages landing in spam. I built a custom email campaign tool that lives in the cloud, so he can manage and send campaigns from anywhere. The tool is designed so his emails are more likely to reach the inbox: it sends in controlled batches with delays between messages (so providers don’t flag him as a bulk sender), and I set him up with DMARC and DKIM so his domain is authenticated and trusted by email providers.

The dashboard lets him upload or paste his email designs, preview how they’ll look, and run a quick check for common email-client issues before sending. He can send a test to himself or a colleague, then launch a full campaign to his subscriber list. Progress and any send issues stream live so he can see exactly what’s happening. Subscribers are managed through simple forms (add, edit, remove) without touching a database, and every message includes a one-click unsubscribe link that’s handled by a small opt-out service, so customers can leave the list easily and Mario stays compliant.

You can find the source code on my GitHub, or check out the live site at casadelpollo.com.