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Work 07 · Client Work

Racha Beauty

A paying client's first website: 95+ Lighthouse, Danish-language, no maintenance budget.

Role
Freelance, design and build for a paying client
Scope
Frontend only
Year
2025
Built with
React, Vite, React Router, Tailwind, Web3Forms, Schema.org
Racha Beauty, screenshot
01/04Racha Beauty
Lighthouse score
95+
Paid client project
First
Contact form fallback
2 paths

Overview

A wellness studio in Næstved had no website at all, just a Facebook page. I built their first one: a Danish-language site covering treatments, prices, a gallery and an enquiry form. My first paid client project.

The challenge

A small local business has no budget for ongoing maintenance and nobody to call when something breaks. The site had to be fast on first deploy, cheap to host, and keep working without me. Especially the contact form, since that is the only channel enquiries arrive through.

Design

Palette

  • Cream#F7F5F0
  • Green#437066
  • Deep green#305D4B
  • Gold#F2C84A
  • Stone#9C8C7F

Type

Headings
Lora
Text
Roboto

Engineering

Approach

React with Vite for a fast build and a small bundle. React Router for the Danish URLs the client wanted (/behandlinger, /kontakt). Tailwind so she could react to something visual instead of a spec. react-helmet-async for per-page titles and descriptions.

How it was built

95+ Lighthouse on first deploy. Every route is code-split with lazy() and Suspense behind a loader, all imagery is WebP, and an ErrorBoundary stops one failure from blanking the site. The contact form posts to Web3Forms and falls back to a Google Form if that request fails. On a site with no backend, a dropped enquiry is a lost customer.

Built with

React, Vite, React Router, Tailwind, Web3Forms, Schema.org

The Making

  1. 01 · Brief

    Racha was opening her own beauty and wellness studio and needed a website to open with. She knew I was studying frontend development and asked me to build it.

  2. 02 · First version, June 2025

    Racha Beauty & Wellness in June 2025: a green header, the welcome headline and an illustrated portrait.

    The site as first built. It has illustrations where today's site has photos of the studio.

  3. 03 · Real photos, August 2025

    Racha Beauty & Wellness today: the welcome headline beside a photo of Racha in her studio.

    Real photos of Racha replaced the illustrations on every page.

  4. 04 · The contact form

    Racha's contact form: name, phone, email, preferred date and time, message and a Send button, on the site's green.

    Enquiries first went through my own small email backend. In November 2025 I moved the form to Web3Forms, a hosted form service, with a Google Form as a fallback if it is ever down, and then removed the backend, so the business has nothing to maintain. Since then it has gained a preferred date and time, and a clear confirmation when it is sent.