Brand and business sites Case study
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A+ Mobile Techs: nationwide IT services website and CMS
A Laravel 11 website and custom CMS for a US onsite IT and installation company: four service lines, state and area pages from one route pattern, Excel area import, Redis caching and daily sitemaps.
- Client
- A+ Mobile Techs
- Service
- Web apps, Website and SEO
- Years
- 2024
- Stack
- AWS S3, Laravel, Laravel Breeze, Redis and 8 more
- Platforms
- Web
Overview
A+ Mobile Techs offers onsite IT support, data cabling and fiber optics, security camera installation and Starlink installation across the United States, and trades online as Nationwide Onsite IT Support Services. We built its website in 2024 on Laravel 11, together with an admin panel the company edits the site from. Each of the four service lines has its own home page, a by-state list and an all-areas list, and every state and area gets its own landing page for each service, generated from one route pattern instead of being built by hand.
The challenge
The business serves hundreds of locations across four service lines, so it needed a page for each service in each place without hand-building every page, and staff who are not developers had to be able to keep the content up to date.
What we built
- The public website: four service lines, each with a home page, a by-state list and an all-areas list, plus a website and software support page
- State and area landing pages generated per service from a single route pattern
- An admin CMS with sign-in for managing states and areas (including bulk import of areas from Excel), home banners, services, counters and gallery sections, menus, the footer, site settings and job openings
- Media gallery with multi-file upload and image alt text, assigned to page sections
- Per-page SEO meta titles, descriptions and custom meta tags, editable in the admin
- Contact and Join Our Team forms that send email, and a job openings section
- Scheduled commands that pre-render the state and area link lists into a Redis cache every 10 minutes and generate gzip XML sitemaps daily
- Cache handling that marks the cached lists stale when areas change
How a system like this fits together
Reference architecture: programmatic SEO website with a custom CMS
Simplified reference architecture, not a client schematic.
- Staff sign in to the admin CMS and enable states and areas, importing areas in bulk from an Excel file, and edit page sections, media, menus, the footer and per-page SEO meta tags.
- The CMS saves states, areas, page content and settings in the database.
- Scheduled Laravel commands read the areas and pre-render the state and area link lists into the Redis cache every 10 minutes, and generate the gzip XML sitemaps once a day.
- A visitor opens a service, state or area page. One route pattern builds a page per service line and area from the stored content.
- The contact form and the Join Our Team form send their messages by email through SMTP.
Technology used
| Layer | Choice | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Back end | Laravel 11 on PHP 8.2 | public site and admin CMS in one application |
| Authentication | Laravel Breeze | admin sign-in |
| Public site | Blade, Bootstrap, jQuery, Slick, AOS | service, state and area pages |
| Admin | Blade, Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, Vite, DataTables | content management screens and listings |
| Data and cache | Relational database, Redis (Predis) | content, and cached state and area link lists |
| Import | Maatwebsite Excel | bulk import of areas |
| SEO | Spatie Laravel Sitemap, admin meta tag manager | gzip XML sitemaps and per-page meta tags |
| SMTP mail | contact and job application forms |
What happened next
- Delivered
The work described above was delivered to the client.
- Operational facts
- Our work on this project took place in 2024.
Screens
Could this be your project?
- You need a web application with user accounts, admin tools and reporting. Website and web app development
- You want your site to load fast and be found, not only to look good. SEO services
- You work in brand and business sites and want a team that has built for it before. Brand and business sites work
Questions about this project
How long did this project take?
Our work on it took place in 2024.
What technology was used?
AWS S3, Laravel, Laravel Breeze, Redis, PHP, Blade, Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, Vite, DataTables, Bootstrap, jQuery.
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