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Nics Delite

Couture, by hand.

A couture-pâtisserie website and custom order builder for Nicole, a Calgary maker of one-of-one cakes and Filipino-inspired desserts.

Client
Nicsdelite
Status
Live client site · redesign and migration
What we did
Website redesign, Hosting and domain migration, Order intake, Art direction
Built with
Next.js · TypeScript · Vercel Blob · Resend

Screen recording of the live site · phone capture of the same build

A blush first-birthday cake wrapped in organza with a satin bow and rows of pearls
Organza, pearls and a satin bow: the details the site’s motifs were traced from.
Nics Delite on a phone, captured from the live site
Phone capture, October 2026.
A heart-shaped vintage cake piped in sage green with red cherries and scalloped borders
Piped scallops in her hand, later redrawn as the site’s borders.
Screen recording of the live site
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A blush first-birthday cake wrapped in organza with a satin bow and rows of pearls
Organza, pearls and a satin bow: the details the site’s motifs were traced from.

01The challenge

Take over a site delivered as a handoff archive, move its hosting and domain without breaking email, and give one maker's handmade work the presentation it deserves.

Nics Delite on a phone, captured from the live site
Phone capture, October 2026.

02The constraint

The site arrived as a source archive with no Git history, a third-party hosting account and a domain that also carried the business's email. Migration had to preserve every non-verification DNS record while the redesign went live.

A heart-shaped vintage cake piped in sage green with red cherries and scalloped borders
Piped scallops in her hand, later redrawn as the site’s borders.

03The approach

Trace every design element back to her craft: organza ribbon, piped scallops, pearls and cake layers become the site's motifs, while the order flow is rebuilt around how custom cakes are actually requested.

Screen recording of the live site

04What we built

A redesigned home, category and flavour pages, a wedding chapter, policies, and an order builder that handles cake tiers and multiple desserts in one enquiry.

05 What changed

Live at nicsdelite.ca, the site now runs on accounts the business controls, and customers can design a custom order — tiers, flavours, multiple desserts and inspiration photos — in one structured enquiry instead of a back-and-forth over messages.

Live client site · redesign and migration
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The work, frame by frame

  • F01Wedding work earned its own chapter on the redesigned site.

  • F02One-of-one lettering and botanical piping.

  • F03Sculpted work that a template gallery would flatten.

  • F04Multiple desserts in one order: the case the order builder was rebuilt for.

  • F05Tiers, flowers and a monogram: choices the enquiry now captures up front.

  • F06Celebration cakes, designed per customer.

  • F07Filipino-inspired desserts sit alongside the couture cakes.

  • F08Ribbon work, the source of the site’s organza motif.

  • F09A quieter wedding piece, photographed on white.

  • F10A grand wedding installation in the venue.

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