// Gig Dossier

RS Award

Client

RUAMSUK PLATING LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

Tier

▲▲▲

Status

Archived

Year

2022

// Brief

A plaque and award showcase web app — first built on WordPress, later remade as a localized Next.js application with SEO/AEO structured data and client-side search. Retired in May 2026, when its catalog moved into RS TROPHY.

// Timeline

Sunset — Catalog Folded into RS TROPHY

Now

May 2026

Products and photos imported into rs-trophy.com; rs-award.com now permanently redirects to its plaque category.

SEO/AEO — Product Pages + Client-Side Search

Feb 2026

Shipped product pages with SEO/AEO structured data, client-side search, and a Dockerized deploy.

+AEO+JSON-LD+Docker

Design — New Design System + Thai Localization

Jan 2026

Adopted a new design system with motion primitives and localized the UI to Thai.

Data — Prisma/Postgres → MongoDB

Jan 2026

Migrated the data layer from Prisma/Postgres to MongoDB mid-build.

+MongoDBPrismaPostgreSQL

Next.js Remake — Foundation + SEO

Dec 2025

Kicked off the Next.js remake with SEO metadata, structured data, robots, and sitemap from day one.

+Next.js+React+Tailwind CSS+Shadcn/ui+Vercel+Prisma+PostgreSQL+Google Tag ManagerWordPress

Launch — SEO, Analytics & Go-Live

Jun 2022

Went live with on-page SEO, analytics, and ad tracking.

Development — Catalog & CMS Content

May 2022

Built the award catalog, content pages, and CMS workflows.

Design — Brand-Aligned Showcase Theme

Apr 2022

Designed a brand-aligned showcase theme and site structure.

Discovery & Setup — WordPress Foundation

Mar 2022

Scoped the plaque and award catalog and stood up the WordPress foundation.

// Gallery

Written About

Localizing a storefront to Thai while replacing its design system

On 30 January 2026 I swapped RS Award's design system and localized it to Thai in one milestone. Thai is a typography constraint, not a translation step.

Jan 2026 · 5 min

Switching from Prisma/Postgres to MongoDB mid-build

Eight weeks into a Next.js catalog rebuild I replaced Prisma and Postgres with MongoDB. What forced it, what it cost, and why Postgres was not the problem.

Jan 2026 · 5 min

On-page SEO for a bilingual Thai B2B catalog

On-page SEO for a Thai trophy catalog: category pages as the landing pages, bilingual Thai-English titles, and measuring a funnel that ends on the phone.

Apr 2023 · 5 min

Three storefronts in ten months on the boring stack

Three WordPress storefronts for my family's trophy factory in ten months, solo, while studying CS full-time — the four-phase playbook and what boring cost.

Jan 2023 · 4 min

Launching a WooCommerce storefront for a Thai manufacturer

Why a CS student chose WooCommerce over custom code for his family's trophy factory storefront — and why the 'temporary' launch ran for three years.

Nov 2022 · 4 min

Designing a brand-aligned WordPress catalog theme without a designer

Making a WordPress catalog theme look like a sixteen-year-old awards brand — a second-year CS student, no designer, no brand book, no budget.

Sep 2022 · 5 min

My first client work was WordPress, and that was the right call

Seven months into my CS degree, I built my family's award-catalog site on WordPress instead of custom code. Why the boring choice was the right one.

Mar 2022 · 5 min

I started my first dev job and my CS degree in the same month

August 2021: a part-time developer job at my family's trophy factory and a CS degree at Thammasat, both dated 2021-08-01. What that month set in motion.

Aug 2021 · 3 min

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