Another day, another website at Blog Consulting. This time we are building a site for an ice cream shop. This site needs a simple start with a good SEO foundation that we can develop in the future. I wanted a look that would tie the site in well with the actual shop. The ice cream shop has yellow walls with splashes of primary colors all over the place and a floor with tiles that have the same yellow, red, green, blue look. I also wanted to use a banana split that would sit behind the website and just kind of poke out as a reminder of what the website is all about. I initially was going to use Thesis to lay the site out, but then decided it would work well with the Twenty Ten theme. That is the second time I have picked the Twenty Ten theme in the last three builds. Here is a screen shot of the front page (I had to use a wider screen shot than normal so you could get a good idea of the colors, so the fonts will be a little small):

I got pretty creative with the yellow polka dot background. I was hoping to find something that would work on Google Images but I couldn’t find a good match. I ended up using a logo creator and overlaying the dot patterns onto the background. If you look closely you can see that they are all a little bit different as far as position and spacing. It worked out fine, however, as you would really have to be looking to see it. The ice cream shop is called Shirleys Frozen Custard, but I decided to build the site on floridakeysicecreamshop.com to gain a little SEO value. I pointed the Shirleys Frozen Custard URL to the Florida Keys Ice Cream Shop site. Go and check it out if you get a chance. I still have to input the info for a couple of the menu pages but other than that it is close to finished.