The Retreat on Nichols is a two unit luxury short-term accommodation in Fairhope, Alabama. The property features a common outdoor kitchen, wood-fired pizza oven, fire pit, Petanque court, lawn & board games, additional bathroom, laundry, gated parking, bicycles, & golf cart. I was brought on board to build the website and manage SEO because the property owners were looking to increase the traffic to the rental via Airbnb and VRBO booking sites.

I built this site using React.js as the front-end, and Firebase for the back-end functions such as storing contact info to then send that contact info to the client's email via nodemailer with server side functions, free SSL hosting, Google Analytics, and more. The site took me about a month or two to plan, design, and build. The design phase was fairly quick, because I had previously built a quick SquareSpace site for the client, so I based much of my design off that template. I had to do a quick rework of the logo with my Photoshop skills because the client did not have the original image for the logo. I also worked with a videographer and photographer to fit their content captured into the site. I maintained their site for a few years, then the owners sold the property. I am waiting for the new owner to make a decision on the direction to take the property, which will hopefully lead me to continue to manage their build! Overall, this build was so much fun to work on, the property is beautiful so creating the site to mimic that was fairly straightforward!