Freshgrass
Building a New Zealand business consultancy's own designs into a working website, then moving it to free GitHub Pages hosting once it was clear they didn't need a CMS.
Overview
freshgrass.co.nzFreshgrass is a New Zealand business consultancy that came with their own designs. The brief: turn them into a working website on a hosted CMS so the team could update content. Over time it became clear they rarely updated anything, so the monthly CMS subscription wasn't earning its keep. I moved the site to free GitHub Pages hosting, removing the recurring cost without changing what visitors see.
What we did
- Coded client-supplied designs into a working website
- Initial deployment on a hosted CMS platform
- Migration to GitHub Pages for free static hosting
- Mobile-first responsive build
- Ongoing support and maintenance
Tech stack
The Project
A consultancy site, eventually rehoused for free.
Freshgrass came with their own designs and a brief to build them. The site started on a hosted CMS and ended up on free static hosting once it was clear the CMS wasn't needed.
Freshgrass arrived with the design done. The brief was a build, not a redesign: turn the designs into a working, responsive website the team could update.
The first version ran on a hosted CMS so the team could edit it. Over the following months they almost never did. The site covers services and contact details, and updates came maybe once or twice a year. A monthly CMS fee for a site that's effectively static stops making sense quickly.
So I moved it to GitHub Pages, the free static hosting option I wrote about here. Visitors saw no change (same URL, same site), but the recurring hosting cost is gone. The team can still request edits when they need them.
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