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Syrček: Fifty Years of Zázrivá Cheese, in a Site the Shop Edits Itself
A bilingual, content-managed site for a specialist cheese shop in a Zázrivá koliba, with fifty-plus products the store team publishes without touching a deployment.
What we built
Syrček is a specialist shop for cheese specialities, run from a koliba in Zázrivá. We built its website as a content-managed site on Payload CMS.
It is deliberately not an e-shop. The product this site sells is a visit. The catalogue exists so someone reads about Zázrivské vojky at home and then drives up the valley to buy them fresh.
The tradition behind the shop
Everything on the shelves comes from SYREX, s. r. o., a Zázrivá dairy continuing a family tradition of salašníctvo and cheese-making. Under the Salaš zo Zázrivej brand the shop carries more than fifty traditional products, from Zázrivský korbáčik and ovčie vojky to fresh srdiečko, and because the shop is the producer, freshness is a fact rather than a promise.
Two of those products, Zázrivský korbáčik and Zázrivské vojky, carry a protected geographical indication. That is a genuine regional certification and a real differentiator against the supermarket lookalikes, so the site gives it room rather than burying it in an about page.
A catalogue the shop keeps current
Payload CMS backs the whole site: products, story, contact. Seasonal availability changes, a new speciality appears, a description gets rewritten, and none of it needs a developer or a deployment.
That is the entire point of the build. A shop that has to file a ticket to change a sentence stops changing sentences, and the site slowly goes stale.
- Product catalogue maintained by the store team
- Slovak and English, both editable in the same place
- Search across the catalogue
- Light and dark themes
- Contact and directions to the shop kept where visitors look for them