Nallian

Nallian builds air cargo software that runs hubs like Brussels Airport and Singapore Changi. Their website, stuck on a legacy Joomla install, no longer reflected that. I rebuilt it as a custom platform on Laravel, Filament and Livewire: sub-second loading, a Lighthouse score up from 61 to 95, and a marketing team that publishes without calling anyone.

Why a B2B SaaS website rebuild was needed

Nallian's solutions run at hubs like Brussels Airport, Singapore Changi and Amsterdam Schiphol. Their old site, built on Joomla with the YOOtheme builder, scored 61 out of 100 on Google Lighthouse: heavy, slow, and indistinguishable from any other templated SaaS site. In a niche where prospects judge a vendor in the first few seconds on the homepage, that is a commercial problem before it is a technical one.

The brief was clear on three points: the site had to finally look like the company, it had to be measurably fast even on unstable airport WiFi, and the marketing team had to be in full control, no agency call needed for every update.

Custom Laravel website development with a bespoke CMS

No template, no page builder. I designed every section for Nallian, and we validated them one by one before a single line of code. The platform then rests on three priorities:

• A custom design that reflects Nallian's positioning in the air cargo software landscape, not a reskinned SaaS template;
• Speed treated as a competitive advantage: sub-second loading on mobile and desktop, a Lighthouse score raised from 61 to 95;
• A bespoke admin with a library of pre-built sections, preview before publishing, scheduled publishing and one-click version rollback on every page;
• Automated content migration from the old Joomla install: articles, press releases, events and customer stories moved over without copy-paste or broken links.

Choosing Laravel, Filament and Livewire was a bet on maintainability. With no third-party plugins, there is nothing to fall out of date and no plugin conflicts to debug: the whole site is one codebase the team owns. It is also what lets marketing try things on the live site without risk.

I used AI on the technical, internal and repetitive work. The strategy, the design and the copywriting stayed by hand.

Website performance results: sub-second load, Lighthouse 95

Delivered on schedule on 3 June 2026. The homepage scores 95 on Google Lighthouse against 61 before, and loads in under a second on both mobile and desktop, fast enough to hold up on the unstable airport WiFi the brief called out.

For the marketing team, the change is elsewhere: they publish a page the day they have the idea, instead of waiting for a slot at an agency.

As their Director of Marketing put it: the new website is "more Nallian", a company finally recognizable in a crowded category.

Frequently asked questions

Why rebuild the site instead of redesigning the existing Joomla install?

The legacy stack was the bottleneck. The old site ran on Joomla with the YOOtheme builder and scored only 61 out of 100 on Google Lighthouse. A redesign on the same foundation would have kept those constraints, so I rebuilt the site as a custom Laravel, Filament and Livewire platform with no third-party plugins.

What performance gains were achieved?

The homepage Lighthouse score was raised from 61 to 95, and the site now loads in under a second on both mobile and desktop, fast enough to hold up on the unstable airport WiFi the brief specifically called out.

What technology stack was used?

I built the platform on Laravel, Filament and Livewire, with no template, no page builder and no third-party plugins. That makes it a single, maintainable codebase the Nallian team fully owns.

Can the marketing team update the site without a developer?

Yes. The bespoke CMS gives the marketing team full editorial autonomy through a library of pre-built sections, preview before publishing, scheduled publishing and one-click version rollback on every page, so they can publish, update and experiment without ever risking the live site.