Hello
I have started to put together a guide to eating out and buying food in Shrewsbury and the surrounding area. The website address is www.eatshrewsbury.co.uk.

My motivation; I have just moved to the town and wanted to know where was good to eat. The guides available online, including the council's official guide were sparse to say the least. So I started making my own. I'm discovering new parts of town all the time as I scout around for more places to put on the map. If it is useful to other people too, then great.

If anyone wants to review anywhere I will happily credit the review with your name. Or else just have fun looking at the map. I know there are still plenty of places missing, but it is a work in progress.

Thanks for looking.

Nice looking website, Shrewsbury needs something like this. I can think of lots more places to go on and i'll submit a few reviews shortly.

Good luck with the website. Hope it continues to grow and I'll be checking it from time to time, so I'll know where to go when I visit in August.

Thanks for the positive feedback.

I sent emails to 10 resturants asking them to provide some more information about their business so that I could give more details on the map. They were aware it was free publicity. One has replied and is going to provide something. One sent me a link to a review on another website. I explained it was copyright and that I couldn't use it. They sent me an email saying that was all they had and that they would wait until I got around to eating there myself. The rest just didn't reply at all.

I have since heard that the town is known as Standstillsbury. I can believe it!

"Hello, would you like some free publicity?"
"No thanks, we already have some customers"

Unbelievable. In a way I find it funny, in another way quite sad that people this stupid can be allowed to own businesses. How did they get them in the first place? Inherited? They certainly didn't write a business plan! If anyone is thinking of opening up a food business here then I'd say go for it. It'll be easy, your competitors won't actually bother competing with you. Just remember to send me a review for my map(!)

Regards

Standing Stillbury = Shrewsbury
Concrete Hardening = Telford

The Shropshire couplet.. ;)

You might consider moving all your JavaScript stuff into external files instead of just some of it here and there. Browsers that cache the script files will then load subsequent pages a bit quicker. At the moment some of it's in external files and some of it isn't.

(sorry to be picky :-))

Hi
Thanks for your comment. I agree with what you are saying, but I have my reasons...

The javascript for the map is on the page because it uses event listeners - these will not be handled properly by older browsers if they are external. I am also going to be taking adventage of the asynchronous load afforded by inline scripts. And while I am updating the site regularly (it is still very much a work in progress) the caching would be more problematic than an advantage.

Having said all that, thank you for taking the time to offer help. I do appreciate it. I take it you are a developer?

Kind regards.