Build your first business site
Choose a business-ready structure, replace the sample information, and leave the editor with a site that is ready for a real launch review.
Naratake field guide
From first block to open for business.
How to build a website from scratch, following the editor’s real workflow: build the site, turn on ordering and bookings, publish a build you have verified, and keep every version of your work when two people edit at once.
18 core guides145 minutes total1 recommended path
Navigate the Naratake editor
Learn what every editor region controls, how selection and responsive styling work, and which top-bar action to use at each review stage.
Perfect the mobile version
Use Naratake’s breakpoint cascade and real Preview controls to make the Storefront and Backoffice usable on a phone without damaging desktop.
Turn on orders, bookings, and customer tools
Turn on online ordering, reservations and appointments on your own site, connect your own Stripe account, and test from customer to back office.
Prepare for the rapid Go live flow
Prepare a reviewed draft, publish it with Go live, then open the real address in a private window and walk the site before you tell anyone it is there.
Recover safely from a save conflict
Protect the work in your browser when another session saves first, then reload the server version or continue in a durable recovery copy.
Does your restaurant need its own website?
Delivery apps rent you a storefront on their terms. How to decide whether your restaurant or café needs its own website, and what a first version must do.
How to choose a salon booking system
Choosing a booking system for a hair, nail, barber or spa business: what missed calls cost, staff and slot structure, no-show deposits, and website fit.
What a small-business website really costs
What a small business website really costs: domain, hosting, design, maintenance, and redesign — and how to compare subscriptions against one-time builds.
Build it yourself, or hire a designer?
How one-person and family-run shops decide between building the site themselves and hiring a designer: real costs, edit control, and the middle path.
How to sell websites to local businesses
A playbook for freelancers: pick one trade, walk in with their site already half-built, price the project, and close on the number owners care about.
How to hand off a website to a client
The handoff checklist for freelancers: what the client must own, what goes in the package, and how to finish without becoming the hostage-keeper.
Get more Google reviews for a restaurant (2026)
A direct review link, where to put the QR, a 12-word staff ask, 5-star and 2-star reply examples, and the Google rules that can get profiles suspended.
How to ask for Google reviews: templates + timing
Scripts for in person, text, email and a counter sign, the three moments an ask works, and what to do when a customer is unhappy — inside Google’s rules.
Google Business Profile description (3 examples)
How to write a Google Business Profile description: five facts to gather, what fits before “More”, Google’s rules, and three finished examples to copy.
Add online ordering to your restaurant website
Compare a marketplace link, ordering widget and website builder using your own costs, then prepare the menu and follow a launch checklist.
Respond to negative Google reviews: restaurants
A 60-second check before you type, a four-sentence frame, eight full replies from a cold plate to a food-safety claim, and what Google actually removes.
Need a website with a Google Business Profile?
A Google Business Profile is free and, for some local businesses, enough. Which ones, the four jobs it cannot do, and what a suspension takes.
One important distinction
The editor look is not the website look.
Singular, Ignition, Orbital, and the other top-right choices change the editor interface. The customer-facing site is styled from Theme in the left rail. The guides call out which one you are changing at every step.
Learn the editor map