CLIENT:
Dr Marcus

Dr Marcus – a website with a product catalog

Project summary

LIVE PROJECT
CLIENT
Dr Marcus
TEAM
  • Back-end Developer
  • Front-end Developer
  • UX/UI Designer
  • Project Manager

Results

  • A catalog where customers find products on their own

    filtering, tagging and search across three categories

  • Higher conversion

    thanks to visible CTAs and a newsletter section

  • A faster, fully responsive website

    shorter load times on every device

  • Content edited without a developer

    the client's team adds new products, articles and pages themselves

Introduction

Dr Marcus is an international brand that makes and sells car air fresheners and car care products.

The company asked our team to design and build a new website. It had to be scalable, multilingual, SEO-optimized and responsive, and ready to support e-commerce sales and B2B partners in the future.
The website was also meant to showcase the full product portfolio and the brand's story, and to educate customers through blog articles.

CHALLENGE

The aim was to create a website that would:

  • Capture the character of an innovative, elegant brand.
  • Make products and content easy to reach and organize information better.
  • Support marketing and customer acquisition.
  • Be responsive and perform well on all devices.
  • Meet SEO and GDPR requirements and leave room for future growth.

The challenge was to build a large website with many sections, subpages and links between them that would still be intuitive and user-friendly, and easy for the client's team to edit.

SOLUTION

The Boring Owl team was responsible for designing and implementing the technology and infrastructure:

  • Frontend: Next.js enables SSR/ISR, faster page loads through prerendered content, better SEO thanks to server-side rendering and easy integration with the Strapi API.
  • Backend: Strapi CMS manages the content of every page on the site and makes it easy to add new modules and content.
  • Database: PostgreSQL, a flexible and secure database for the CMS.
  • Hosting and infrastructure: Coolify + AWS CloudFront for fast performance worldwide and strong security.
  • Third-party integrations:
    • Google Analytics and GTM: Tracking traffic and user activity on the site.
    • CRM: Managing customer relationships.
    • Mailchimp: An email platform for marketing automation.
    • Payment systems: for a future online store.
A tablet showing the dr-marcus website

KEY FEATURES

  • A dynamic homepage - with a banner and sections for categories, bestsellers, Neutra Boost and articles.
  • A product category structure: car fragrances, car care products, home fragrances - with filtering, tagging and search.
  • The “World of Scents” section - with filtering 
  • Detailed product pages - with fragrance note descriptions, infographics, USPs, videos and related articles.
  • Educational and marketing pages - about the brand, its history, the team, the factory and certificates.
  • Blog and FAQ 
  • Newsletter and analytics - active lead generation.
  • SEO - full technical optimization.
A phone showing the dr-marcus website

RESULTS

  • A fully responsive website.
  • Shorter load times.
  • Higher conversion thanks to visible CTAs and the newsletter section.
  • A website that meets SEO requirements.
  • Easy content management with Strapi CMS.
  • Greater brand visibility and product recognition.
  • Infrastructure ready for the platform to grow with B2B and e-commerce features.
  • Higher user engagement thanks to the blog and educational sections.
A tablet showing the dr-marcus website

SUMMARY

The Dr Marcus website project focused on building a modern, secure site that helped shape the company's image and educate customers about its products. Thanks to modern technology and a well-planned architecture, the new platform is not only attractive and user-friendly but, above all, functional, secure and ready for future growth. It is a solid tool for marketing, education and sales.

A car air freshener, Dr Marcus

Technologies used

FRONTEND

SSR/ISR and prerendered content for faster page loads, better SEO and easy integration with the Strapi API

BACKEND

a CMS for managing the content of every page and easily adding new modules

DATABASE

a flexible, secure database for the CMS

THIRD-PARTY INTEGRATIONS

tracking traffic and user activity on the site

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