FollowCoupons – Website Migration & Laravel Maintenance
Project Overview
Successfully migrated the FollowCoupons platform to a new hosting environment while ensuring minimal downtime and preserving application stability. The project involved migrating both the public-facing Laravel website and its separate Laravel-based admin panel, configuring the new server, installing SSL certificates, and resolving deployment issues.
Beyond the migration, I delivered comprehensive maintenance services across the platform, including fixing responsive layout issues, resolving URL slug problems, revamping the mega menu, updating content and internal links, enhancing blog functionality, implementing Schema.org improvements, configuring SEO-friendly redirects, correcting coupon listing layouts, and resolving multiple backend administrative issues. Additionally, I optimized the website's performance by improving page load speed, reducing unnecessary resource loading, and enhancing the overall user experience.
A major challenge was that the existing codebase lacked proper architecture and coding standards, requiring careful debugging, refactoring, and issue resolution while maintaining compatibility with the live production environment. The result was a faster, more stable, and maintainable coupon platform with improved SEO, performance, and usability.
⚡ Challenges
The platform consisted of two separate Laravel applications one for the public website and another for the administration panel—which both required migration and synchronization. The existing codebase lacked proper coding standards and contained several legacy implementation issues, making debugging, deployment, and maintenance significantly more complex. Additionally, multiple frontend, backend, SEO, infrastructure, and performance issues had to be resolved without disrupting the live website.
✅ Solutions
Successfully migrated both Laravel applications to a new hosting environment, configured the production server, installed SSL, and verified all application services after deployment. Performed extensive maintenance by fixing responsive layouts, URL slug generation, mega menu functionality, blog enhancements, Schema.org markup, redirect rules, coupon page layouts, speed optimization, and various admin panel issues. Refactored legacy code where necessary to improve maintainability, enhanced frontend performance, optimized resource loading, and delivered a more stable and efficient production environment.
📈 Business Outcome
Delivered a faster, more reliable, and fully optimized production environment with improved website performance, enhanced SEO structure, better user experience, and a more maintainable codebase. The successful migration and optimization efforts improved page load speeds, increased platform stability, simplified content management, and provided a stronger technical foundation for future growth.
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