Lucyome

Context

Lucyome makes handmade wish candles: a wooden base that opens, a wish you write and close inside. A physical shop near Toulouse, a product that moves people, and a WordPress WooCommerce site that didn’t do it justice. We had to start again from the product.

What I did

• A fully custom site, no framework: a home page with video, a shop and eighteen product pages, an Occasions page by chapter (wedding, birth, remembrance), a Ritual page, a House page with a map and live opening hours, light and dark themes.
• A custom slide-out cart, then a handoff to a Shopify checkout styled in the brand’s colours. Shopify does what it does well, the rest stays under control.
• A site generator with two targets, development and production, that writes descriptions, structured data, sitemap, redirects, security headers and a page-by-page security policy on every release.
• Automated test benches before each release: a full journey at two screen widths, cart, keyboard and screen-reader navigation, 236 colour-contrast pairs measured.
• Every old address taken over: 69 redirects in place so nothing is lost on Google.
• An online project space for the client, with brief, checklist, mockups and shooting sheets, behind a single door.
• Art direction, content plan, filming and editing to launch the brand on social media.

Results for the client

• New site live on 8 August 2026, checkout verified end to end, eighteen live products where there had only been drafts.
• An SEO audit with no measurable flaw, pages served in under 0.4 seconds, home page weight divided by more than a hundred.
• Colour palette corrected to meet accessibility contrast everywhere.
• Monthly care underway to keep the shop alive.

Stack

HTML, CSS and JavaScript written by hand, generator and test benches in Python, form and newsletter in PHP. Shopify for payment. Hostinger hosting deployed by rsync, previews on Vercel. GA4 behind consent and Search Console.