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Maps Refrigeration & Air Conditioning
A GSAP/Lenis-animated Astro landing site for Maps Refrigeration & Air Conditioning, covering 11+ services across residential, commercial, and industrial AC/refrigeration, with 5 real customer reviews (name, suburb, photo) and a new logo, deployed on AWS Amplify with a custom domain.
Stack
AWS Amplify · Amazon Route 53 (custom domain) · AWS Certificate Manager · Astro · GSAP · Lenis · Embla Carousel
The problem
Maps Refrigeration & Air Conditioning, a newly CIPC-registered refrigeration and aircon company serving Midrand, Centurion, and Pretoria, had no web presence beyond a physical decal and word of mouth, no way for a prospective customer to see real reviews, service coverage, or credibility signals before calling.
The goal
Design and ship a fast, credible landing site from the client’s own concept video, built around real trust signals researched from local competitors, years-in-business framing, named brand partnerships, certification badges, real customer quotes, rather than generic stock-template copy.
Engineering decision
Researched local refrigeration/aircon competitor sites before writing the brief, and built the page structure around what actually moves a browser to call: years-in-business as a headline stat, named brand partnerships (Samsung, TCL, Midea, Carrier), and real named customer quotes over generic star-rating claims.
Tradeoff
A fixed-fee, fast-turnaround engagement (live within days of kickoff) meant no custom backend or CMS: content changes go through a direct handoff rather than a client-editable dashboard.
Insights
For a brand-new, unknown local service business, real named customer reviews with suburb and photo did more credibility work than any amount of design polish.
A domain bought without its DNS zone configured yet is a common small-business gap, building a manual ACM-cert fallback into the deploy process avoided blocking launch on the client fixing that themselves.
