Case Study
Client-approved design, shipping in phasesForce Peptides Online
A client who had already approved a product-guide PDF design wanted that exact look live, fast, with zero reinterpretation risk. Instead of recreating it as a guess at matching HTML, the approved PDF became the homepage itself, pixel for pixel, on day one.
The Problem
An approved design, and a client who didn't want it reinterpreted.
The client supplied a finished "Force Peptides Product Guide" PDF and was explicit: don't try to recreate this, I want an exact copy. That's a real and reasonable ask: any hand-coded HTML rebuild risks drifting from a design that's already been signed off, and that drift is exactly what clients hate discovering after launch.
The fastest, lowest-risk path to an approved homepage was to render the actual PDF pages as images and ship that first, then replace pieces with real components incrementally, instead of blocking launch on a full rebuild.
What Was Built
A PDF-to-production pipeline, then a real component rebuild on top.
- Pixel-exact first release: the approved PDF pages rendered via PyMuPDF (fitz) into PNG images, served directly as the homepage so the client's sign-off shipped exactly as approved.
- Phased replacement plan: each section of the image-based homepage gets swapped for real, accessible, SEO-indexable Next.js components over time, rather than ripping out the whole page at once.
- No guesswork on brand details: because the first release is a literal render of client-approved material, there's zero risk of the common "redesign drift" problem where a rebuilt page quietly differs from what was signed off.
Outcome
Client-approved design live, with a clear path to a fully real build.
Force Peptides Online shipped the exact design the client signed off on, with no approval-cycle delay waiting on a full HTML rebuild. The incremental replacement plan means the site gets real, crawlable components over time without ever risking a launch-blocking redo.