La Mantia Luxury Rooms

This is a website for a luxury guesthouse located in Palermo, Italy.

My client needed a website to showcase their property and reach a wider audience.

I started by creating a design system inspired by the client's preferences, and then developed the website using ReactJS and Vanilla CSS.

To allow my client to reach more people, I created a backend system using WordPress as a headless CMS, so they could easily create blog posts without needing to know code.

New in 2026

This site's blog has been incredibly successful, but to avoid performance issues with a moderately large user base, I suggested my client switch technology from ReactJS to NextJS.

The difference in terms of graphics is minimal, but I had to rewrite much of the site's code to ensure everything worked properly. I also created a blogging system from scratch that allows you to translate articles into all the languages ​​offered by the site, add documents, and manage metadata (essential elements for proper SEO) completely independently.

To implement all these changes, we moved from a traditional hosting service to a full-fledged server that manages everything: site, database, mail server, etc.

My biggest achievement with this migration was managing to get the blog to load in less than a second, compared to the previous +3s.

Technologies

• NextJS
• Vanilla CSS

Transparency

The budget for this site is between €1,000 and €2,000 per year.

A portion of this budget is dedicated to server management, which is undoubtedly more expensive than traditional hosting.