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Overview
Kiyul Odyssey is a Bhutan-based tour operator offering curated trips across the country, from cultural festivals to high-altitude treks. They came to me pre-launch with a clear goal: a website that does justice to the experience of travelling in Bhutan and turns interest into real booking enquiries.
The Brief
Build a site from scratch that positions Kiyul Odyssey as a trusted, premium operator rather than a generic tour-listing page, and that the team can keep updated themselves without a developer for every change.
Timeline
2 weeks from kickoff to handover.
The Problem to Solve:
- Pre-launch, with no existing site or content structure
- Several content types that needed to stay organized and easy to expand season after season
-Had to feel premium and trustworthy to international travelers researching an unfamiliar destination
-The team needed full control of updates, without touching code
What I Built:
- A full custom website: home, tours, destinations, festivals and travel guides
- A structured content system so the team can publish new trips, destinations and guides on their own
-On-page SEO across every page, built around how travelers actually search for Bhutan trips
- Enquiry forms routed straight to their inbox so no lead is missed
- A fast, secure setup ready for launch
The Craft
The heart of the build is the content system. Rather than hard-coding every trip, I set up dedicated, linked sections for tours, destinations, festivals and travel guides. Add a new festival and it appears in the right places across the site automatically, correctly organised and ready to be found in search. The site grows with the business instead of needing a rebuild every season.
The Results:
- Lighthouse scores: Performance 96, Accessibility 96, Best Practices 100, SEO 100
- SEO configured across every page and content type, with a clean sitemap submitted for indexing
-Secure setup with protected login and a CDN for speed
The result is a polished, easy-to-manage website that captures the feel of travelling in Bhutan and gives every visitor a clear path to get in touch. Coast Cycles, a premium bicycle and mobility brand, was rebuilding its product catalogue in WordPress and Elementor and migrating it off BigCommerce across two regional sites. I was brought in to rebuild the catalogue accurately and keep it consistent, with as little supervision as possible.
What I worked on:
✅Product pages across the full Buzzraw Classic, Pro and X ranges, including spares, accessories, components and electricals
✅Replication of the catalogue to a second regional store using the client's copy workflow
✅Step by step assembly guides for all three bike models, rebuilt from source video and image files
How I approached it:
Because I already understood the CMS and e-commerce structure, I worked straight from the brief and adapted quickly when requirements changed partway through. The part that mattered most to the client was that I treated the migration as a quality check, not just a copy job. On every batch I reviewed each page and sent back a documented list of issues rather than letting them slip through, including:
✅Broken sliders and non functioning image galleries
✅Missing images and empty product entries
✅Product name mismatches between the old and new sites
I also delivered against tight, same day client deadlines without dropping that level of checking.
Result:
The client received a clean, consistent catalogue they could trust, with every known issue flagged rather than buried. The relationship was reliable enough that they brought me back across several rounds of work through 2022. 
