Client website · Launching
Wild Orange Charters
A charter website built around the boat, the crew, and years of days on the Gulf.
Project README · 2026-09-16Download README.md ↓
The brief.
Wild Orange Charters needed an editable website on its own domain, a preserved photo archive, and a clear path from trip research to booking.
What we built.
- Preserved 317 original photographs from the legacy host.
- Curated a 56-photo gallery and built a nine-page website.
- Connected the site to an online booking path, with trip and marina details close at hand.
How it works.
- 01Start with the charter information and boat.
- 02Browse real catch photographs in the gallery.
- 03Follow the booking link to choose the next step.
The result.
The first preview was deployed 23 minutes after the deposit cleared. That is the time to the first preview; the full project includes the subsequent site, gallery, and booking work.
Where it stands.
The public site is available. The project remains marked as launching while final ownership and booking handoff work is tracked.
Earlier engineering notes · July–August 2026
Preserved from the original build record. Product status and offers may have changed; the current project summary appears above.
- Problem: the client was described to us under one business name; the phone number, domain registration, review platforms, and email all pointed to another. Fix: we treat identity as evidence, not dictation — the site, records, and schema were built against the verified name, and the discrepancy was surfaced instead of silently propagated.
- Problem: the legacy host served the photo archive over broken TLS with no export path — years of catch photos one missed invoice away from disappearing. Fix: crawled and mirrored all 317 originals to durable storage before touching anything else, then curated and recompressed 56 of them for the new gallery.
- Problem: our own payment webhook missed the first deposit because it only handled storefront checkouts, not invoice payments. Fix: reconciled the sale by hand against the processor's records the same hour, booked it with full source references, and opened a tracked fix so invoice payments book themselves from now on.
- Problem: online booking needed a calendar the customer can tap, without renting the client a subscription he didn't ask for. Fix: a scheduling link with charter-hours availability and the marina address baked into every confirmation, reached through a same-domain /book path on the client's site so his brand stays the only brand a visitor sees.
- Rule we keep: the client owns the surface. His domain, registered in his own registrar account; his photo archive, returned to durable storage; his booking calendar, moving to his own account rather than living in ours.