After Hours
A late-night café that wanted the website to feel like the room at 9pm, not a menu PDF.
- Client
- Self-directed
- Services
- Web Design · Development · Photography
- Type
- Local business
- Year
- 2026
A neighborhood café doesn't need a thirty-page website. It needs the right five pages, good photos, clear information and a reason to visit.
The idea: make the digital version feel like walking through the door.
Two temperatures, one room. The site switches between them as you scroll — bright for hours and location, dark for everything else.
Most people find a café on a phone, standing outside another café.
So the phone layout came first: hours, address, one photo that tells you what the room feels like, and a button that opens directions. Everything else waits.
Hours that are actually correct
One editable source, including the holiday exceptions nobody remembers to update.
Menu without a PDF
Structured content, readable on a phone, indexable by search engines.
Table requests
A short form instead of a booking platform subscription.
Shot on location, at the hour the place looks best.
Nobody has ever chosen a café because of its hero animation. It still helps.
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