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Lead Developer · 2025 · 3 months

Red Bridge

A bilingual career-migration platform connecting Australian employers with international talent — 500+ placements, 4.9★ rating.

 Red Bridge
500+
Successful placements
95%
Employment rate
4.9★
Average client rating
2
Languages (en / zh)

// Problem

Red Bridge offers Australia-visa-aligned career programs (189 / 190 / 491 / 482 / 186 pathways) to Chinese-speaking professionals. Their previous site was a static WordPress build with scattered visa-pathway copy, no content reuse, and a bounce rate over 70% on Chinese mobile. Conversion to free-consultation bookings depended on a form buried three clicks deep.

// Approach

I rebuilt the site on Next.js 15 App Router with a refined editorial layout and full zh/en i18n via next-intl. Sanity CMS holds every program as a structured document so the team can launch a new visa-pathway page in an afternoon. A shared Consultation CTA follows the reader as they scroll through case studies and employer-network data. Images are served through Sanity's CDN with art-direction for mobile, halving the payload on 3G Chinese networks.

Context


Red Bridge specialises in bridging international graduates into the Australian workforce with a structured, visa-aware curriculum. Their differentiation is an employer-vetted placement network and measurable outcomes — not vague "job support". The site had to feel as rigorous as the program


What I built



A bilingual (en/zh) marketing site with Sanity-driven content modules: hero stories, pathway programs, employer case studies, testimonials, and a living blog. Every program page shares the same schema-defined block set, so the team composes pages in Studio without touching code. The reader scrolls through a unified narrative — context → program details → outcomes → CTA — with refined editorial typography and generous whitespace.



Decisions worth calling out


I chose Sanity over a headless WordPress migration because the team needed Chinese copy editors working in parallel with English. Portable-text blocks preserve formatting across locales. The consultation CTA uses a client-side form that writes directly to the team's CRM, skipping the Zapier middleman that made the old site slow.


Outcome


First-page load dropped from 4.2s to 1.1s on throttled Fast 3G. Time-on-page doubled. Consultation bookings rose materially in the first month post-launch, and the team now publishes 2–3 case studies per week without developer involvement.

Published April 15, 2026

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