Websites
Website design and development
(WHAT IT IS)
Southern Exposure Media Group (SXMG) designs and builds websites for businesses in Atlanta and North Georgia, many of them restaurants and food halls. Each site connects to the systems the business already uses: OpenTable for reservations, Toast or ChowNow for ordering, or a third-party checkout for an online store.
Our current builds are written in custom code (Next.js), and we host and look after them. Every site launches with search basics in place and, where staff need it, a private dashboard for events, posts and messages.
(RESTAURANT WEBSITES)
What a restaurant website has to do
A restaurant site has a few jobs: show the menu, take the booking or the order, sell the gift card, and fill the private room and the events calendar. We build for those jobs.
Menus go on the page as real text that Google and AI assistants can read, not as a PDF. The reservation button opens OpenTable, the order button opens Toast or ChowNow, private dining has its own inquiry form, and staff add events and posts from a back office. Pages carry restaurant structured data with the address, hours and menu.
(WHAT'S INCLUDED)
What a website build includes
- 01.
New sites and rebuilds
A new design, or an existing site rebuilt page for page.
- 02.
Menus as text
The full menu on the page, with categories guests can filter.
- 03.
Reservations and private dining
Booking and private dining inquiries through OpenTable.
- 04.
Ordering and event inquiries
Order buttons that open Toast or ChowNow, and private event inquiries through Tripleseat.
- 05.
Online stores
A store behind a 21+ age gate, with a third-party checkout that takes the payment.
- 06.
Events calendars
A calendar your staff run, with weekly series and private events.
- 07.
Team dashboards
One place for events, blog posts, site pop-ups, contact messages sorted by category, the email list export and staff accounts with roles.
- 08.
Bilingual sites
Pages in English and Spanish, each language at its own address.
- 09.
Search basics at launch
Titles, descriptions, structured data, a sitemap, a robots file and an llms.txt file.
- 10.
Spam protection
Bot checks on every public form, tightened if spam gets through.
- 11.
Tracking
Google Analytics 4 and Search Console, with the actions that matter tracked, such as order clicks, calls and form sends.
- 12.
Domain and email records
The records that point your domain at the site and let inboxes trust your mail.
- 13.
Hosting and care
Hosting, security updates and changes after launch.
(HOW WE WORK ON IT)
How a website build runs
- 01.
Discovery
What the site has to do, who will update it, and which systems it has to talk to.
- 02.
Preview
You get a private preview link while the site comes together.
- 03.
Rounds of notes
We work through your notes in rounds until the site is right.
- 04.
Launch and handover
The site goes live on your domain with redirects, tracking and search files in place, then we crawl it. Your team gets staff accounts and a short note on how to publish.
- 05.
Care
Menu changes, new pages, seasonal updates and security updates.
(THE WORK)
Website work we can show
CHR Steak
Gainesville, Georgia
A custom site that replaced the steakhouse's Wix site, with OpenTable reservations and private dining, events, gift cards and a back office where staff publish events and see inquiries.
Frazie's Meat & Market
Riverside, Atlanta
A custom site live since July 2026 that sends every order, shop and gift card path to the shop's Toast storefront, with catering, a private chef page and a page for each event.
Chattahoochee Food Works
Upper Westside, Atlanta
A new site live since early October 2026, with a page for each kitchen, one calendar for public, private and weekly events, and a dashboard the hall's team runs.
Nan Thai Buckhead
Buckhead, Atlanta
A custom site, finished in September 2026, that replaced the restaurant's Squarespace site, with OpenTable reservations and private dining, ChowNow ordering, gift cards and the story of the family in the kitchen.
Sliced Pizza
Hoschton, Georgia
A new site live since October 2026, with the full menu as text guests can filter by category, a catering request form and photos from our October shoot.
Sneaky Pete Spirits
Atlanta, Georgia
The company's online store for Pedro Furtivo tequila and Yacht Water, live since early 2025 behind a 21+ age gate, with a third-party checkout. A new bilingual storefront is being built.
Pedro Furtivo Tequila
Atlanta and Jalisco, Mexico
The site built for the brand's 2024 launch, with a store locator added in September 2024. We worked on it until May 2025, and a new bilingual site is being built.
CTR Food Works
Downtown Atlanta
Since August 2026 we have kept the food hall's site current and launched its blog, and in October 2026 we rebuilt the team dashboard with its own traffic counter.
We also rebuilt S&S Rug Cleaners' site in custom code in July 2026, keeping every page at its original address. And we moved Phoenix Parking Solutions USA's site off Webflow, rebuilt it page for page and launched it by July 2026, then added a newsroom back office in October 2026.
(PLATFORMS)
Connected to the systems you already use
Our current builds are written in custom code (Next.js), and the earlier sites we look after run on WordPress. Each site connects to the services below.
- OpenTable
- Toast
- ChowNow
- Tripleseat
- Google Analytics 4
- Google Ads
- Google Search Console
- Google Maps
- WordPress
(WHO IT IS FOR)
Who we build websites for
Restaurants and food halls, a butcher shop and market, spirits and beverage brands, a rug cleaning company and a parking management company all have sites we built or look after.
(QUESTIONS)
Questions about website design
How do you design a website for a restaurant?
Southern Exposure Media Group starts with what guests come to the site to do: read the menu, book a table, order, buy a gift card or plan an event, and puts each of those one tap away. Sliced Pizza's menu is text guests can filter by category. CHR Steak and Nan Thai Buckhead take reservations and private dining inquiries through OpenTable, Frazie's Meat & Market takes orders through Toast and Nan Thai Buckhead through ChowNow, and the CHR Steak and Chattahoochee Food Works teams publish their own events from a back office. Pages also carry restaurant structured data, so search engines read the address, hours and menu correctly.
Can we see every form submission ourselves, and which form it came from?
Yes, on sites where SXMG builds a team dashboard. Chattahoochee Food Works' dashboard keeps contact messages in one place, sorted by category, and staff can reply by email from it. CHR Steak's back office lists reservation inquiries, contact messages and newsletter sign ups separately. Chattahoochee's forms also hold on to a submission if the database or email service is briefly down.
What do you do about spam forms and suspicious emails after a new domain goes live?
SXMG builds bot protection into public forms and tightens it if spam gets through. CHR Steak's forms run a spam check on every submission, Chattahoochee Food Works' forms add disposable email blocking and rate limits, and Sliced Pizza's forms use a hidden honeypot field, a timing check and rate limits. For email, we set up the domain records that let inboxes trust your mail (SPF, DKIM and DMARC), as we did for Penny Patrol's business email in October 2025.
(RELATED SERVICES)
Services that go with a new website
- Website migrationA new site often means leaving WordPress, Wix or Squarespace. The migration moves the site page for page, with permanent redirects so old addresses keep working.
- SEO, AEO and Google Business ProfileSearch basics ship with every launch. SEO and Business Profile care keep the site showing up in Google Search, Maps and AI answers after that.
- Photography and videoOur own photos and video fill the pages, like the shots from our October shoot on the Sliced Pizza site.
(INDUSTRIES)
Let's work together
Southern Exposure Media Group (SXMG) is a full-service creative agency in Atlanta, working with businesses of all kinds. Tell us what you want to grow.