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Bespoke CMS for Artists: Balancing High-Detail Imagery & Instant Editing

How we built a headless Laravel + React CMS that allows fine artists to manage their portfolio in real-time.

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For fine artists, the portfolio isn't just a website; it's an extension of their studio. In this project, we moved away from the complex, multi-page admin forms of traditional CMS systems in favor of an inline-editable interface. By leveraging React Context and a declarative content layer, we allowed the artist to toggle an "Edit Mode" and modify text or swap images directly on the live layout. This was paired with a headless Laravel backend that ensures all changes are persisted securely, while Cloudinary handles the heavy lifting of optimizing high-resolution scans for the web...