Open the Doors · A Muntin Method bootcamp

Build your first restaurant website yourself — in three or four weeks, one evening at a time.

No credit card. No sign-up. No agency proposal. You type, you choose, you watch your site take shape in real time. By the last lesson you download a real, working website and put it on the open internet.

About 12 hours of work, spread across three to four weeks. Most operators do one lesson per evening, three nights a week. Each lesson saves automatically in this browser. Sign-in is optional — only needed if you want your work on a second device.

Optional Tell us where you're starting from — we'll tailor the pacing

Three quick questions. We don't save the answers.

All these do is shape the pacing notes you see on the lesson pages — "you can skim this" vs "spend extra time here." Skip if you'd rather walk every lesson at the default pace.

1. Have you built a website before?
2. Have you worked with Google Business Profile (GBP)?
3. Comfort level with a terminal / command line?

First, pick where you're starting from.

This is the only decision we ask up front. After this, every lesson uses your own restaurant — your name, your cuisine, your neighborhood — as the working example. You can change your track later in any lesson.

Choose a starting track
Pick a track to continue.

Four modules. Sixteen lessons.

Each module is a phase of opening. The 16 lessons add up to a complete, deployable restaurant website you own, host, and control. Forked lessons split for the two tracks — every other lesson is shared.

Module 1 · Orient

What you're actually building

Why a restaurant website exists, what it actually does on a Tuesday night at 7:42pm, and the one promise yours will make.

  1. Welcome — type and see
  2. What a site that books tables actually does
  3. Your one promise

Module 2 · Decide

The eight decisions

The decisions that shape every restaurant website. Naming and positioning for a fresh start; audit and triage for a rebuild.

  1. Your customer in one paragraph
  2. Naming + domain fresh / Audit your current site rebuild
  3. Cuisine + positioning fresh / Diagnose what's leaking rebuild
  4. Palette + voice

Module 3 · Assemble

The operator paperwork

Menu, photos, hours, Google Business Profile. The unglamorous pieces that decide whether you fill tables.

  1. Menu + plate-cost loop
  2. Photo brief fresh / Photo refresh triage rebuild
  3. Hours, holidays, contact
  4. Google Business Profile from zero fresh / GBP repair rebuild

Module 4 · Launch

Generate, deploy, keep it alive

Local SEO, reviews, the click that turns 14 lessons of work into a downloadable site, deploying it for free, and the 30-day rhythm after.

  1. Local SEO anchors
  2. Reviews + first-week trust
  3. The Generator — download your site
  4. Deploy to Cloudflare, Netlify, or Vercel
  5. The 30-day rhythm