Gebhardt Homes Website
Gebhardt Homes is a premier custom home builder serving Edwardsville, Illinois, and the surrounding communities. Known for exceptional craftsmanship, attention to detail, and superior construction quality, Gebhardt Homes is committed to building homes that are both beautiful and built to last. By using top-quality materials and proven building practices, they create custom residences that combine timeless design, lasting value, and outstanding durability.
Visual Lure did not design this website originally. Instead, we took the existing site and completely rebuilt it using a custom hybrid WordPress solution. The previous website had grown so large that it was exceeding its hosting storage limits and relied on nearly 20 WordPress plugins, many of which were causing conflicts and functionality issues. As a result, none of the photo galleries were working properly, and the site suffered from poor performance scores in Google PageSpeed Insights.
To solve these issues, we developed a fully custom theme that still allows the client to manage content through WordPress while eliminating the overhead typically associated with a traditional WordPress website. Rather than generating pages dynamically, the site uses Cloudflare to serve clean, static HTML files with no unnecessary code. The result is a dramatically faster, more reliable website that loads lightning-fast, provides a significantly improved user experience, and achieves a perfect 100 performance score in Google PageSpeed Insights.
