spanish-academy — week of 2026-04-20

The biggest week so far. The site had been running on placeholder copy and stock photography, and this was the push to make it feel like the actual school.

I did a full content audit and replaced stock imagery with real photos of the school — its classrooms, teachers and students. To keep that sane at scale I built a small media pipeline: gather the source images, normalize and convert them to web-friendly formats, and give each a content-addressed name so duplicates collapse and nothing gets re-processed. That fed a proper image library the whole site draws from. I also swapped invented testimonials for real reviews and trimmed courses that are no longer offered.

On top of the new imagery I redesigned the homepage around a banner and an integrated slideshow plus course-category cards, and gave every interior page a hero image. The course tiles got a from-scratch redesign — a branded header strip, equal-height cards, real per-course photos — reused across the homepage and course listings. Underneath, the inquiry form gained more fields and the project got a Docker build for consistent deploys.