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Dubai Horror Collection
A bilingual horror knowledge archive — a Wikipedia-style encyclopedia powered by a full visual CMS, media library, and visitor analytics.
- Client
- Rashid Al-shamsi
- Completed
- November 2025
- Technologies
- Laravel 12PHPMySQLSQLiteTailwind CSSViteCranL S3
Dubai Horror Collection is not an e-commerce store — it is a fully controllable knowledge archive in the spirit of Wikipedia: encyclopedic entries with sortable image galleries, featured collections, bilingual articles, CMS-driven pages, forms, and popups. Every surface — the visually-built homepage (hero, stats, entries, collections, CTA), navigation, footer, themes — is editable from a single admin dashboard with a visual page builder, live preview, autosave, and version history.
19 types
CMS sections
AR + EN
Languages
CranL S3
Media
Autosave
Editing
The challenge
The client needed a distinctive digital presence to showcase horror culture with rich media and full editorial control — publishing new experiences quickly, in Arabic and English, with fast public pages and SEO — without depending on developers for every content change.
The solution
We built a Laravel 12 CMS with a visual Page Builder (19 section types, autosave, version history) and an Entry Builder for encyclopedic records with drag-and-drop image galleries (cover, intro, outro). Media is stored on CranL S3, visitor analytics track engagement, and SEO-ready public routes serve entries, collections, and articles — all managed from one admin dashboard.
Architecture
Laravel 12 monolith with SectionRenderer, PageBuilderService, MediaUploadService, VisitorAnalyticsService, and AuditService. MySQL/SQLite persistence, CranL S3 for media, and an admin dashboard for pages, entries, themes, navigation, and analytics. Public routes: /entries/{slug}, /articles, /collections/{slug}, /{slug} CMS pages.
Key features
- Visual page builder — 19 section types, live preview
- Autosave and full version history
- Encyclopedic entry builder with sortable galleries
- Featured collections infinite slider
- Bilingual articles archive with SEO
- Media library backed by CranL S3
- Visitor analytics dashboard
- Theme, navigation, forms, and popup management
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