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Case study · Website + CMS

A century-old piano workshop, rebuilt for the web.

Shamshersons has repaired, tuned and restored pianos for nearly a century. Their old static site couldn’t keep up — so we rebuilt it as a fast, modern website the family can update themselves.

Client
Shamshersons · Quality Piano Works
Industry
Piano repair & restoration
Services
Design, development, CMS
Highlights
Self-editing CMS, enquiry forms
Hosting
Fast global hosting
The new Shamshersons homepage: a dark piano photograph behind the name Shamshersons, Quality Piano Works
The new homepage — nearly a century of craft, front and centreVisit the live site

Project summary

The brief

An outdated site that was hard to change.

The old website was static, with a dated design and limited functionality. Changing a service, a photo or a phone number meant editing code.

What we built

A modern site the family runs themselves.

A responsive website with a private admin dashboard. The family edits pages, photos and services on their own, and enquiries land straight in their inbox.

The result

Faster, clearer and easier to find.

A site that loads quickly, works on every screen size and is built for search engines and accessibility. Its Lighthouse accessibility and SEO scores both went up to 100 (from 56 and 82), the homepage is 98% lighter, and the family now makes their own updates.

Before & after

Drag to compare.

The old static site on the left, the new one on the right.

After: the new Shamshersons homepage
Before: the old Shamshersons homepage, with a grand piano photo beside the heading Welcome to the Piano Experts
BeforeAfter

What’s inside

Everything the family needs to run their site.

A public website for customers, plus a simple dashboard behind it for the people who know the business best.

01

Responsive redesign

A clean, modern layout that works on phones, tablets and desktops.

02

Admin dashboard

Secure sign-in, and every page editable from one place.

03

Rich text editing

A familiar editor for headings, lists and links — no code required.

04

Image library

Upload and swap photos in seconds, stored safely in the cloud.

05

Enquiry forms

Contact and enquiry messages delivered straight to their inbox.

06

SEO & speed

Clean code, proper search metadata and fast global hosting.

Results

What changed.

Measured with Google Lighthouse in October 2026, old site against new. Changes that used to need a developer now take the family a few minutes in their dashboard.

Speed71 → 99Lighthouse performance score on desktop (82 → 89 on mobile)
Accessibility56 → 100Lighthouse accessibility score on mobile, old site → new
Page size8.6 → 0.17 MBWhat a visitor downloads to open the homepage — 98% less

For years, changing anything on our website meant waiting on a developer. Now when we finish a restoration or add a service, we put it online ourselves the same day.

Gurdeep SinghShamshersons · Quality Piano Works