Good At Marketing does web design for Delray Beach businesses that customers walk into, such as restaurants and salons, and serves them from Boynton Beach. We quote each website after a call and publish no build price, while the monthly services we sell have published ranges. The menu and hours belong on the page as text.
By Donnie Strompf. Updated October 2026.
Which pages must a walk-in business site get right?
Guests who are standing outside or already on their way use five kinds of page, and each one fails in its own way. The table lists what each page has to do and what to test on a phone before you approve the design.
| Page | What it must do | What to test on a phone |
|---|---|---|
| Menu | Show current dishes and prices as text | Read it without pinching or opening a download |
| Booking or reservations | Let a guest reserve in a few taps | Complete a test booking with one thumb |
| Gallery | Show the work quickly, with photos that load fast | Scroll it on mobile data and watch for blank gaps |
| Events | Give each event a page with its date and venue | Change a date and check that it updates everywhere |
| Contact and hours | Give hours, a parking note and a tap-to-call number | Tap the number and the map link |
The platform is a smaller decision than these pages, though it limits what you can fix later. Our platform comparison dates each vendor’s redirect and export limits, and it notes that Google’s help pages do not say any platform ranks higher.
Who needs a new website in Delray Beach, and for what?
Restaurants and bars. The page that earns the visit is the menu, with hours and a reserve or order button beside it. A menu that changes every week raises the first question to put to a designer: who edits it, and how quickly? If the answer is “send us a PDF,” read the menu point in the next section before you agree.
Also ask what the first screen of the site shows on a phone, because a guest who is hungry wants the hours, the menu link and the reserve button before anything else.
Boutiques and galleries that sell online. Selling online turns a brochure site into a shop with products to list, a checkout to test and shipping to set up, and our website design page treats a store as extra scope. Decide first whether the store is the business or an extra, because a store changes which platform makes sense, as the platform comparison shows.
A gallery with a few prints and a boutique with a full catalog need different tools, so question any quote that treats them alike. A gallery or venue that lists events should give each one its own page, as the event guidelines in the FAQ below describe.
Salons and studios that book by appointment. The booking tool is usually the busiest page on the site, and it often comes from another company. Choose the tool first and design around it, with the account in the business’s name so that a change of designer never cuts off bookings. Ask how the tool looks on a phone, and whether it can send guests back to your site after they book.
If all you need is a holding page while the shop opens, a template service will cost less and may be the better fit.
What does a Delray Beach website have to get right?
Six points matter most for a walk-in business here. Each one cites a source we read for this page, and where we add our own view it is marked as opinion.
Where guests park. The City of Delray Beach’s parking FAQ, which shows no date and was read October 19, 2026, says Atlantic Avenue parking is limited to 3 hours. Guests who want longer can use the public garages, the beach-side public lots or the free public lots. It also describes Parkmobile as a pay-by-phone and app service.
Our reading: a dinner followed by a walk can pass 3 hours, so a restaurant or gallery that says where longer stays can park answers a question guests would otherwise ask by phone. Check the city’s page again before you publish, because it carries no date.
Phones and desktops. StatCounter Global Stats put U.S. page views in September 2026 at 49.1% mobile, 48.47% desktop and 2.42% tablet, based on more than 3 billion monthly page views. That is a national share of page views and not a count of Delray Beach visitors.
Our reading: the split is close enough that a restaurant site has to work on both, but guests who decide where to eat on the spot will mostly be on a phone. Open your own site on one before you judge a design on a desktop monitor.
Then read the menu, tap the reserve button and find the hours with one thumb, the way a guest would. If any of those takes a pinch or a second page load, tell the designer before launch.
Menus as pages. The Nielsen Norman Group’s August 9, 2020 article on PDFs recommends against using a PDF to present content that should be a web page. Its example is a cafeteria menu in a PDF that took almost 3 minutes to download on an intranet in one study.
For a restaurant, that argues for the menu as text on a page, with a PDF offered only as a printable extra. A short line on the page, such as the month the menu was last updated, tells a guest it is current.
What slows a page down. Reservation buttons and ordering widgets usually load code from another company. web.dev (updated February 19, 2024) says third-party scripts are a common cause of slowdowns from resources outside the site owner’s control, and advises async or defer unless a script is needed to render the page. Ask a designer which outside scripts load on the first screen and how each one is loaded.
Who holds the logins. Register the domain and open the hosting account in the business’s name, and give the designer a user role instead of the owner login. The account ownership guide lists the roles for each platform and how to remove a designer later.
What the quote should spell out. Our website design page lists the factors that move a project’s price: the number of pages, integrations such as booking tools, who supplies the content, whether there is a store, how custom the design is, and whether an existing site is being replaced.
A written quote for a Delray Beach site should name each one that applies. It should also name the platform and the plan, who will hold the domain and the host, and who can edit the menu and the events after launch. Ask for it in writing so that you can compare two quotes line by line.
If the site replaces an old one that earns visits, ask how each changed address will be redirected. Google’s site move guidance, which our platform comparison summarizes, recommends permanent server-side redirects from old addresses to new ones.
Websites sit beside the rest of our work for Delray Beach businesses, and Donnie leads SEO strategy, Jay Hebbar handles design and development, and Roni Strompf writes content and runs paid media. Our Delray Beach agency page has the full service list, and SEO in Delray Beach covers how people find a business in search. Restaurants and hotels will find more in our hospitality marketing page, nearby cities are on our county service-area page, and the marketing cost guide sets a website beside the monthly services.
FAQ
What should a Delray Beach restaurant, salon or boutique expect to pay for a website?
No build price is published, because pages, booking tools and a store each change the work. A project is quoted after a call. The monthly services we sell are listed with ranges on the pricing page, reviewed October 2026, and websites are quoted separately from them.
Can Google find a menu that is a PDF?
Google lists PDF among the file types it can index, according to its indexable file types page, updated February 3, 2026. Being indexable does not make the file pleasant on a phone. Keep the menu as page text so guests see it at once, and treat any PDF as a download.
What should I check before adding a reservation or ordering button?
Ask whose account the tool runs under, whether it opens inside your page or on another company’s site, and how you export guest records if you switch tools. Then tap it on a phone yourself. The business, and not the designer, should hold the login.
How should a gallery or venue set up pages for its events?
Give each event its own page. Google’s event structured data guidelines, updated September 8, 2026, say each event needs a unique URL with the markup on it. For a rescheduled event, update the start and end dates, and for a canceled one keep the other details.
How should a photo-heavy site handle images?
Google’s image guidance, updated March 2, 2026, says to use standard HTML image elements, because Google does not index CSS images. It also asks for descriptive alt text and file names, lists WebP and AVIF among supported formats, and notes that images are often the largest part of page weight.
Can we show our own customer reviews on the site?
You can show them, but Google’s review snippet guidelines, updated September 8, 2026, make pages ineligible for star ratings when the business controls reviews about itself under LocalBusiness or Organization markup. Expect no stars from testimonials you host yourself, though the quotes still help a visitor decide.
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