Project

Total Auto Repair Conversion-Focused Website Redesign

A full conversion-focused website redesign for a local auto repair business, repositioning the brand around transparency and dependable local expertise, with an interactive preliminary quote experience and a scalable foundation for email automation and customer-retention campaigns.

Project Overview

I transformed Total Auto Repair's outdated website into a modern, conversion-focused experience designed to reduce customer anxiety and make requesting service easier. I repositioned the business around transparency, dependable local expertise, and strong value rather than low-price messaging, then developed a customer journey built around prominent reviews, clear service pricing, strategic acquisition and retention offers, trust signals, and an interactive preliminary quote experience. The redesign also strengthened local SEO messaging for West Allis, prioritized mobile conversion actions, and created a scalable foundation for future email automation, appointment reminders, and customer-retention campaigns. This project demonstrates my skills in competitive research, brand positioning, conversion strategy, UX/UI planning, strategic copywriting, local SEO, and digital customer journey development.

Skills Demonstrated
Competitive researchBrand positioningConversion strategyUX/UI planningStrategic copywritingLocal SEODigital customer journey developmentWebsite information architectureMobile conversion planningOffer strategy

Challenge

Total Auto Repair's existing website functioned as a basic lead catcher, supported by strong Google visibility and an excellent local reputation. However, the site underused those advantages. Its outdated design, low-price positioning, limited trust signals, and lack of clear conversion paths gave visitors little reason to choose the shop over nearby competitors. The challenge was to preserve what already worked while showing how stronger messaging, differentiation, promotions, reviews, and service-request tools could turn the website into a more effective conversion asset.

Strategy

Reposition the business around transparency, dependable local expertise, and strong value rather than low-price messaging. Build a customer journey anchored by prominent reviews, clear service pricing, strategic acquisition and retention offers, trust signals, and an interactive preliminary quote experience that reduces anxiety and makes requesting service easy.

Build

Competitive research and market positioning
Brand repositioning around transparency and value
Conversion-focused information architecture
Hero section with clear offer and outcome
Prominent customer reviews and trust signals
Clear service pricing presentation
Strategic acquisition and retention offers
Interactive preliminary quote experience
Local SEO messaging for West Allis
Mobile-first conversion action planning
Scalable foundation for email automation
Appointment reminder and retention campaign planning

Business Value

The redesign reduces customer anxiety, makes requesting service faster and clearer, and positions the business as a transparent, dependable local expert rather than a low-price option. It creates a scalable foundation for email automation, appointment reminders, and customer-retention campaigns.

Tools & Technology

Base44

AI-assisted web development

HTML/CSS/JavaScript

Generated-code refinement and customization

GitHub

Code transfer, version control, and continued development

Developed through a strategy-led Base44 workflow involving structured prompting, conversion and UX direction, iterative interface refinement, and informed customization of the generated HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Project code can also be transferred to GitHub for version control, continued development, or deployment when required.