youAmaze · case study

A landing page that looks like a brand,
not a template.

How we built a premium bilingual landing page for Baehr Essential Services — a family-owned painting, remodeling & home-improvement company in Central Florida — and why it’s worth 5× more than the average contractor website.

— 01 / the brief

What Baehr needed.

A bilingual landing page (EN + PT-BR) — Davenport/Central Florida has a large Brazilian community
Serves three distinct audiences: high-income homeowners, vacation-rental owners, property managers
Premium positioning within the category: the look of a brand, not a contractor template — from handyman jobs to full remodels, all under the same signature
Real proof of work — their own photos, no stock images, no invented reviews
Performance + technical SEO — so the domain grows with the business

“It can’t look like a WordPress template. It needs the face of a premium brand — with the human warmth of a family business.”

— 02 / live right now

See it live before you keep reading.

Two linked versions, one brand, copy adapted to each cultural audience — not a literal translation.

🇺🇸

English

baehressential.com/

🇧🇷

Português

baehressential.com/pt-br/

— 03 / creative direction

"Editorial Florida Craft."

Not slick tech-startup. Not amateur rustic.

Editorial typography (Fraunces serif + Manrope sans). Brand red as punctuation, never a flood. Paper-cream background. Polaroid-treated photos. Typographic section markers (— 02 / What we do) — the feel of a printed magazine.

Every decision is a choice — nothing came from a template
Type + color + rhythm work together to hold premium without losing warmth
The brand’s bear mascot integrated with subtlety, never childish

Design direction · proprietary

— 04 / bilingual architecture

Two voices, one system.

Not translation. Cultural adaptation.

The PT-BR version is not Google Translate. Every term was weighed: "property managers" became "administradores de imóveis", "turnover" virou "limpeza entre hóspedes (turnover)", "garbage disposal" introduced first as "triturador de pia". Central Florida’s Brazilian community feels at home.

hreflang en / pt-BR / x-default — Google understands both versions
Seletor 🇺🇸 EN | 🇧🇷 PT visible on desktop + mobile
Canonical prepared for the final baehressential.com domain
CTAs with WhatsApp messages pre-filled in the visitor’s language
JSON-LD per language com inLanguage set

— 05 / conversion infrastructure

Four paths for a lead to arrive. Zero friction.

01

Web form

Web3Forms integrated, anti-bot honeypot, 5 fields, custom redirect. Tested end-to-end in production.

02

Direct WhatsApp

8 links with pre-filled messages per section/CTA. Tap targets ≥ 44px on mobile.

03

Phone / Email

Tap-to-call on every number, direct mailto. Mobile-first, frictionless.

Result

76 verified clicks across 2 languages. 0 console errors. The form delivered 2 real test emails to fabi@baehressential.com before go-live.

— 06 / what we measured

Os numbers behind the project.

76Interaction tests passing (EN + PT)

0Console errors in production

12Real photos curated + optimized

6Viewports tested (360–1440px)

9Sections per language

40+Copy and layout iterations

— 07 / technical excellence

What lives under the hood.

The technical SEO other agencies forget

JSON-LD LocalBusiness + FAQPage + Service catalog
hreflang en / pt-BR / x-default on both pages
OpenGraph + Twitter Cards customized per language
Sitemap.xml + robots.txt + canonical pointing to the final domain
Skip link + ARIA + visible focus for accessibility (WCAG AA)

Own infrastructure, no platform

Ubuntu 24 VPS + Caddy reverse proxy + automatic Let’s Encrypt
Nginx serving static files isolated in a Docker container
Build pipeline: source → deploy version → rsync → dev → prod
Zero lock-in: the client owns EVERYTHING (no $50/month Wix bill forever)
HTTP/2 + zstd/gzip + cache headers — page weight ≈ 50KB HTML + 33KB CSS

— 08 / non-negotiable quality

Before the client saw it, it was broken and fixed.

2 specialist agents in parallel (design critique + adversarial QA) reviewed screenshots across 7 viewports + read the source code
Bug found and fixed: a CSS selector leak made the header CTA 86px tall instead of 39px
Bug encontrado e consertado: the header logo pointed to the domain root instead of the landing home
Bug encontrado e consertado: Chromium ignores scroll-margin-top on deep links — a custom JS handler guaranteed the correct offset

Standalone pass: 76 interaction tests. Every link, button, accordion, lightbox, language flag, footer item and section anchor — clicked and validated.

— 09 / proof of work

Real photos. Real homes. Real work.

Every one of the 12 gallery photos came from a real project delivered by Baehr — including a real, authorized video tour of a vacation rental prepared by the team. Hand-painted Mario murals, remodeled kitchens, TV mounting with in-wall wiring, infrastructure behind the drywall. No stock images. No invented “before & after”.

Why

A client who trusts real visual proof doesn’t haggle — they pay for the level of work they can see. Premium holds on transparency, not rhetoric.

— 09.5 / the client’s voice

What the owner thought.

“Seeing the Baehr name on the site was a very special moment for me. More than a company, it represents a story built with a lot of effort, and seeing it presented so professionally made me very proud. The process was simple, organized, and always respected my ideas. The final result exceeded my expectations.”

— Fabiana Baehr · Owner, Baehr Essential Services · Davenport, FL

Verbatim testimonial, authorized by the client · translated from the Portuguese original (see PT version).

— 10 / market

Where this sits in the real world.

Research across 15+ sources from 2026 (US + BR) on what a landing page at this scope costs today.

🇺🇸 US — Boutique

$1,500-$3,000

1 landing, basic copy, no multi-language

Doesn’t cover custom design + infra + bilingual.

🎯 mid-to-top agency

$8,000-$15,000

Fair equivalent to the Baehr scope

Custom design + bilingual + infra + 40 iterations + agentic QA.

🇧🇷 BR — top-tier SP/RJ

R$ 20k-35k

Local equivalent. Same scope, BR cost.

~$4-7k USD at exchange rate. BR-only positioning.

— 11 / why it’s worth it

What justifies the investment.

ROI with simple logic

Market benchmarks place optimized landing pages in the 8–10% conversion range, versus 2–3% for generic sites. With a US$3–15k average ticket, the math is direct: one extra closed project covers the investment.

No platform dependency

Wix/Squarespace charge US$30–50/month forever. Five-year total: US$1,800–3,000 — and you still don’t own it. Here the client owns the code, the assets, the domain.

Bilingual market unlocked

Central Florida has one of the largest Brazilian communities in the US. An EN-only site leaves half the potential audience out. A culturally adapted PT-BR version captures that leak.

Perceived premium = defended pricing

A site with an editorial signature positions the business to compete on perception, not discounts. The owner sets the price — the site backs the decision. And it keeps selling 24/7, aligned with the business positioning.

— 12 / process

How we got there.

01

Brand & voice discovery

Understand positioning, audience, tone — and avoid false promises.

02

A singular design direction

Not generic Tailwind. Color, type and rhythm chosen for this specific brand.

03

Build + i18n

Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS, mobile-first, culturally bilingual — not literal translation.

04

Agentic + manual QA

2 specialist agents + interaction tests + end-to-end form submission.

05

Own deployment

VPS + Caddy + nginx. Dev → staging → prod. The client owns it.

06

Fast iteration

Every copy, layout or capability refinement shipped the same day.

— 13 / next step

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