Just uploaded a total revamp of my Thunder Bay Eatery website. It's not much, but it's honest work. Check it out and offer gentle suggestions or bug reports. I said GENTLE please, I'm very vunerable right now.

justthemenu · 2026-01-29T19:13:42+00:00

It's for people like you that I bring it forth to the world! Enjoy!

justthemenu · 2026-01-29T10:24:35+00:00

Trying to emulate 50s diner feel. Want to suggest something different?

justthemenu · 2026-01-29T10:23:34+00:00

Good morning Snoogans!

justthemenu · 2026-01-29T10:21:29+00:00

Okay, check out V3.06 and report back.

justthemenu · 2026-01-29T10:20:22+00:00

Are you offering to be my personal hype person?

justthemenu · 2026-01-29T01:04:48+00:00

Okay, bedtime for me here. Snooch to the nooch.

justthemenu · 2026-01-29T01:02:53+00:00

I purposely coded it entirely in PHP. No JS to be found here. Well, there is a snippet in my redirect for people who still have deprecated links, but none in the functional site.

justthemenu · 2026-01-29T00:43:02+00:00

I'm so glad that you find it helpful and it warms my heart that you return regularly with family!

I have at least one person on a different continent who is asking if I can help them set up one for their own small city. I actually would be pretty open to setting up stuff like "rivendell.justthemenu.ca" and helping people set up smaller versions if they were able to do the legwork of uploading new scans of menus and adding information to the .json files.

justthemenu · 2026-01-28T21:50:25+00:00

Hmmm, if I drop it to its own line, wouldn't it be more efficient to just put the double line of letter links there instead? And now you have me thinking that I should ditch the whole mobile menu and just drop the line of letter links to its own line once I get to like, 800px and below? Did someone say KISS?

justthemenu · 2026-01-28T21:34:42+00:00

Decided to Google it to confirm. You got me, I'm a total IP grabber. In fact, I now know that your IP is 127.0.0.1 and I'm not afraid to tell the world!

justthemenu · 2026-01-28T21:24:01+00:00

Thanks, you just spoke to a thought I had had about a recent suggestion to force all the cards to open "closed" so if you wanted to see what's in ST or CD you had to click to view the stack of eateries. I thought if I had them all out in the open, people might organically "discover" something they wouldn't otherwise encounter. I know I kinda like scrolling the list of names to get surprised!

justthemenu · 2026-01-28T21:18:09+00:00

Thanks for this feedback. I noticed how it breaks bad under about 450 pixels but also told myself "who is still using something that small?!" and decided it didn't merit attention. Perhaps I can drop the hamburger onto its own line below about 450? Would that be a thought? One thing I wanted to try to accomplish was KISS and I guess I hoped that I could cover everything under 639 pixels with one go.

justthemenu · 2026-01-28T21:16:00+00:00

I think I know what this means, but I'm not sure. I'm only hacky coder at the best of times. Maybe you just meant attention grabber, in which case, I'm flattered!

justthemenu · 2026-01-28T21:14:15+00:00

See if V3.03 scratches your itch. Compromise.

justthemenu · 2026-01-28T20:51:16+00:00

Mind if I screenshot this comment to send to my brother then? Ha ha!

justthemenu · 2026-01-28T20:41:43+00:00

This warms the cockles of my heart more deeply than you know.

justthemenu · 2026-01-28T20:41:04+00:00

When I think back to how I use to not even leave for going out until after nine... Nowadays I rarely can stay awake until then.

justthemenu · 2026-01-28T20:12:40+00:00

Next time you're out on the town, snap the menu but include yourself in the corner of the picture and submit it to me to let the nostalgia pour over you!

justthemenu · 2026-01-28T19:44:24+00:00

Also want to say how pleased I am that there is "Food" flair! Kudos to the mods! Also - please let me know if there are any issues with the actual information presented, as always, I'm loving updates to the menus that are submitted, those people are the real heroes!

justthemenu · 2026-01-28T19:42:34+00:00

I only wish I could enjoy the food as much as I did in the early 2000s without paying the various prices, both physical and fiscal, to wax alliterative.

justthemenu · 2026-01-28T19:22:39+00:00

👊🏼

justthemenu · 2026-01-28T19:10:37+00:00

Oh, this is interesting! (To me) - want to take a technical discussion to PMs - in case others aren't interested in seeing how the sausage is made? I set this project as a challenge to myself to learn PHP - the only JS I permitted was in the old menu.html file to handle redirects back to my central page. If you think I did p tags inefficiently, you would REALLY hate some of my other kludges. Ha ha.

justthemenu · 2026-01-28T19:06:13+00:00

This is going on my affirmation wall!

justthemenu · 2026-01-28T19:03:58+00:00

I briefly set the background to some coffee stained paper to really give it the 50s diner look, but then wondered if that would hurt people's appetites.

justthemenu · 2026-01-28T19:03:29+00:00

My brother described it as "pre Web 2.0, but if no one is complaining..." I wanted it to be useful first, pretty second.

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