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Coding Projects ยท Live Website
Northern Ember Smoke BBQ
A real marketing website I built and maintain for Northern Ember Smoke BBQ, a Texas-inspired food truck in Bancroft, Ontario.
The project
A real site for a real food truck
Northern Ember is a Texas-inspired BBQ food truck that fired up its smoker in 2026, parked in the Canadian Tire lot in Bancroft, Ontario. I built the website for it: a single, polished marketing page that shows off the menu, the food, and where to find the truck.
It is the most real-world coding project I have done. It is not an assignment, it is a site that actual customers visit to check the menu and call ahead to order.
My role
I set the site up, sampled the brand colours from the logo, and got the menu, gallery, and contact details wired together. These days I maintain it myself, hand-editing the code whenever the menu, hours, or details change.
A look around the site
The story, the menu, the food, and where to find the truck. Click any screen to view it full size.
How it's built
Lightweight and dependency-free, so it stays fast and easy for me to update.
Custom brand design
A brand palette sampled from the logo (smoke green, cream, and ember orange), paired with the Oswald, Lato, and Yellowtail fonts, laid out to feel like the truck itself.
Responsive & interactive
A responsive layout with a mobile nav menu, a gallery lightbox, and every contact detail wired up: click-to-call, email, Facebook, and a Google reviews link.
Why I like this one
Built once, maintained for real
Most of my coding projects are assignments that end when they are graded. This one keeps going. I have learned how a brand goes from a single logo to a full site and how to keep a live website current as a real business changes, since I hand-edit and update it myself.