Case Study | Lujo Luxury Living
Lujo Luxury Living, a luxury furniture store in La Marina (Finestrat), faced a crisis. After a collection update, all product images disappeared from their Shopify webshop. Their designer had been working on the problem for 8 weeks without results. The supplier and stock inventory software provided no useful feedback.
For a webshop: no images means no online sales.
The technical problem I had no Shopify experience yet, but problem-solving thinking is my strength. My analysis revealed that the supplied images were downloadable items, not inline. Shopify only accepts inline images.
The first solution seemed to work: a stock image application that caches images and makes them inline via redirect. Until the supplier shut down their server due to overload and added extra security.
The solution I developed a CDN proxy server worker at Cloudflare that retrieves all images (including security), caches them, and uploads to Shopify via a stock sync application. Additionally, I added extensive product descriptions and dimensions - more information means fewer questions and more sales.
The result From 8 weeks of downtime to a fully working webshop. All images are visible, the webshop is operational, and I continue optimizing the site for better conversion.
About the author
Chantal van Nuland
I'm Chantal van Nuland, a Dutch web designer and developer living on the Costa Blanca. I build websites in Next.js, Astro.js, Shopify and WordPress for local businesses, real estate agencies and entrepreneurs in the area. My focus is on websites that are fast, multilingual and built to actually get you clients.
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