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Pretty Hands Case Study · Website Transformation

From dated to camera-ready.

A complete digital transformation for Pretty Hands. We took Jameka Young’s existing website and rebuilt the entire experience from the ground up - without changing what makes Pretty Hands, Pretty Hands.

48 hrsBuild time
18Pages rebuilt
35Video files created
The Challenge

Jameka built a real business.
The website wasn’t keeping up.

Before a pixel changed, we went through the old site page by page. Six things stood between Pretty Hands and the clients looking for it.

Dated visual experience

A generic template look that didn’t reflect the quality of the actual work - real client photos were buried instead of leading the page.

Weak mobile browsing experience

Most clients book from a phone, and important information and actions weren’t presented optimally for that screen.

Limited conversion paths

Booking, pricing and directions weren’t consistently positioned as obvious next steps on every page.

Underutilized content

Gel-X, pedicures, reflexology and the full service menu all lived crammed onto one homepage - none had a page of its own.

Search visibility gaps

The hidden layer search engines read never said “nail salon” - no service list, no prices, no service area.

Not built for AI search

Services, hours and prices weren’t in a form AI assistants can read, so they had little to work with when someone asked for a nail salon nearby.

The Audit

Before we touched a pixel, we measured.

We saved a copy of the old site and audited it - and we’ll tell you what it did right, too. Here is the honest scorecard, old versus new.

Area
Original site
Rebuilt site
Tells Google it’s a nail salon
No business type declared - generic “WebSite” only
Nail salon, address, service area, hours declared
Services & prices machines can read
Priced menu lived only on the booking platform, not the salon’s own site
36 services, priced, as data across 4 dedicated pages
Answers AI can quote
No FAQ published anywhere on the site
25 structured questions and answers
Video content
Minimal - essentially none
12 videos, one for every service page (35 files across formats)
Homepage code weight
1.4 MB of HTML
48 KB - 28× lighter
Heaviest page code weight
1.3 MB of HTML (Shop)
29 KB - 44× lighter
One clear heading per page
3 H1 tags on the homepage alone
Exactly one H1, on all 10 pages we checked
Page titles & descriptions
Titles present - only 1 of 5 pages had a description
Unique title & description on every page
Canonical URLs, sitemap, robots
Present (platform defaults, even an AI llms.txt)
Rebuilt clean and kept
Image alt text machines can read
43% of images described
95% of images described

Every row above was checked on saved copies of both sites, captured the same day. Where the old site already did something right - canonicals, sitemap, robots, even an AI-facing llms.txt file - the table says so.

The Transformation drag the divider!

Drag the divider. Both sides are live.

The left side is Pretty Hands’ old website. The right side is the redesign, playing its video right now. These are the real sites, not screenshots - judge the transformation yourself.

LOADING LIVE SITES…
BEFOREAFTER - LIVE

The homepage. Every page got the same treatment - tap any page below to compare it full screen.

Every page, before and after.

Tap a page to open the full-screen comparison - live sites, video playing, drag to reveal. The old site crammed most of this onto one homepage; the new site gives each its own page.

Text us your website One text. We reply with what your site could become.
Photos → Video

The photos were static. The new site isn’t.

The old site showed a still photo for a service, if it showed anything at all. The new site plays video for every service instead - Gel-X, pedicures, reflexology and more, 12 videos in total (35 files once you count desktop, mobile and format variants). Drag the example, then tap any picture to see the same comparison.

Pretty Hands' old reflexology flyer, a static graphic
BEFORE - OLD SITEAFTER - VIDEO

watch it come alive  Reflexology. Left: a text flyer on the old site. Right: the new site’s reflexology page, video playing.

Mobile First

For most clients, the first look
happens on a phone.

So the redesign was built for the phone first. The left screen is a same-day capture of the old site at iPhone size. The right screen is the new site itself, loaded live at phone size - video playing.

Original Pretty Hands homepage captured on an iPhone-size viewport
BEFORE - SAME DAY CAPTURE
AFTER - LIVE, VIDEO PLAYING
Book on BooksyCallTextDirectionsSee services & pricing

On the new site, every action above is one tap from any page - booking through Booksy, directions straight into Google Maps, and a phone number that calls or texts.

The Scope

This wasn’t a new coat of paint.

Here is what was actually delivered inside the 48 hours.

Complete redesign

All 18 pages designed around the Pretty Hands brand - not a template with new colors.

Custom mobile experience

Layouts tuned separately for small screens, where most clients book from.

Conversion architecture

Booksy booking, call, text and directions - positioned on every page.

Custom visual assets

Meka’s own client work and product photography, organized into a real gallery.

Service video

12 videos, one matched to every service (35 files across desktop, mobile and format variants), replace the static photos across the site.

Technical SEO foundation

Titles, descriptions, headings, canonicals, sitemap and robots directives on every page.

Local search structure

Business type, address, hours and a 14-city service area written in the format Google reads.

AI-readable answers

The service menu, hours and a 25-question FAQ structured so assistants can quote them.

Built for the Actual Business

One studio. Every reason to book.

Instead of treating Pretty Hands like a generic salon, the new site gives each service its own place to sell itself. Tap any of them to compare that page, before and after.

Each card above is a real page on the new site, with its own content, its own video and its own path to book.

Launch Readiness

Ready for launch.

No made-up traffic charts. Just what is finished, checked and waiting for the go-ahead.

Complete responsive redesign - all 18 pages, desktop and mobile
Full service menu rebuilt - 36 services, priced, across 4 dedicated pages
Booking wired - Booksy, plus one-tap call and text
Mobile-service page - explains in-suite vs. at-home visits and the travel radius
Shop rebuilt - the product line presented with real pricing
Location experience improved - directions, hours and contact one tap away
Technical SEO implemented - titles, descriptions, canonicals, sitemap, robots
Structured data implemented - nail salon, services, FAQ, breadcrumbs
AI-search foundation in place - hours, services and answers machines can quote
Real client photography organized - into an actual gallery, 12 videos added (35 files across formats)
Unlimited edits included - the site keeps evolving after launch
Private preview live - Jameka reviews everything before switching over
The Transformation, At a Glance

Same business.
Completely different digital experience.

Before

Generic Wix template

Everything crammed onto one page

Actions hard to find on mobile

No priced service pages

Hard for AI assistants to read

Little visual storytelling

Drag any slider
above. Judge it yourself.

After

Video-rich & immersive

Every service, its own page

Booking one tap away

36 services, priced & published

Readable by Google & AI

Built to keep evolving

The Math

What would a project like this
normally require?

Published salon-industry pricing puts a full-service custom build like this at $2,000 to $10,000+ from an agency - and that’s before hosting, maintenance, booking plugins and photography are billed on top.

The traditional project

Each line, typically billed separately

Design

Development

Booking system setup

SEO basics

Photography

Hosting

Maintenance

Every future edit

Launch Automation

One build fee, one monthly price - all of it included

Complete redesign, delivered in 48 hours

Hosting & SSL included

Booking wired to Booksy

Unlimited edits - you text it, we ship it

Real client photography organized into a gallery

Search & AI setup, kept current

Real human support by text

$1,000One-time build fee
$175Per month, everything included
48 hrsFrom your text to a live site

This build included 18 pages, 12 videos matched to every service (35 files across formats), and a full rebuild of the service menu as machine-readable data.

How It Works

Want this for your business? Three steps.

1

Text us your website

Send the link to the site you have today. That’s the whole assignment.

2

We rebuild it

Design, your photos turned into video, and the full search & AI setup - typically inside 48 hours.

3

See it live, then switch

You review your new site at a private link - exactly like this page - before it ever replaces your current one.

What could we do with your website?

Send us the website you have today. We’ll show you what it could become.

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