- Custom Laravel website and owner admin
- Portfolio, product, contact, and commission-request foundations
- Private staging with search blocking and controlled mail testing
- Documented legacy URL, catalog, backup, and cutover decisions
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Client platform rebuild · Pre-launch
Just Build It Design
A WordPress and WooCommerce business was rebuilt as a focused Laravel platform with a clearer path for custom work, portfolio browsing, and owner management.
PROJECT STATUSPre-launch staging
Evidence is verified. Production outcome claims are intentionally omitted.
Overview
The challenge
The existing site carried a large legacy footprint, overlapping templates, and 68 published products while the business needed a simpler way to present custom work and manage inquiries. The replacement also had to preserve migration choices rather than silently discarding catalog URLs.
Approach
How O-Tech handled it
O-Tech audited the live WordPress site, captured the URL and product inventory, created recoverable backups, and built the replacement in a private staging environment. Public forms were tested end to end while checkout stayed deliberately disabled until the business confirms its future catalog model.
Verified work
What was built.
Public-facing design and operational readiness were developed together.
- PHP 8.4 and Laravel
- 49 automated tests with 567 assertions in the recovered build
- Verified desktop and mobile layouts
- Backup and rollback evidence retained off the public site
Visual evidence
Before and private staging.
The images compare the current WordPress homepage with the private Laravel staging design. The replacement is pre-launch, so no production conversion, sales, or revenue improvement is claimed.
BEFORE
PRE-LAUNCH STAGING
Mobile by design
The smaller screen has its own rhythm.
Navigation, hierarchy, cards, forms, and calls to action were reviewed at mobile widths instead of being treated as a compressed desktop page.
Ongoing management
What happens next.
The launch plan preserves a decision point: migrate the existing product catalog or approve an inquiry-first model with explicit redirects. O-Tech will repeat production tests after the controlled cutover before publishing outcome claims.
Claims deliberately omitted
No conversion lift, revenue increase, search growth, customer testimonial, or post-launch uptime result is stated without production evidence.
Build with the evidence in
Need a clearer, more manageable website?
Start with the current site and the business decision it needs to support.