Cleveland Crave is a fun project that my friend Amy and I created. We’re big fans of Cleveland, Ohio and enjoy sharing what the great city has to offer. Amy and I love dining out at all of the different locations in Cleveland, and enjoyed sharing our reviews on Yelp. We found Yelp to be a little limiting though, and thought it would be fun to build our own place where we had more room for creativity and control.
Cleveland Crave uses a fun graphic of the Cleveland skyline in its header, surely recognizable by any of the city’s inhabitants and fans. With it, I chose to use bold, happy colors, alongside alcohol-beverage icons, to suggest a laid-back and fun website. Cleveland Crave is essentially a blog at heart, so I found that WordPress was a perfect platform to use. Without my assistance, Amy is easily able to add new reviews to the post feed, as well as calendar events in the sidebar. We’ve actively used Twitter and Facebook to direct traffic to our content.
