Abogada de la Tierra

Overview

Abogada de la Tierra is the website of Lucía Rico González, a lawyer specialising in Administrative Law and urban planning, based in Alicante and serving clients across Spain. It was a freelance commission, and I took it end to end: the design, the build, the contact backend, the SEO and the deployment.

The remit was a credible, welcoming online home that turns visitors into enquiries — clear about what she does, easy to contact, and fast and stable enough to reflect well on a professional whose whole value is trust.

A different design language

This is deliberately nothing like my own dark, terminal-green portfolio. The brief called for calm, trust and warmth, so I built an editorial palette of cream, sage green and earth tones, with Lora serif headings, a clean DM Sans body and occasional handwritten Caveat accents. The territory-and-land theme of her practice runs through it.

It's also built to convert: a clear hero promise, service cards that map to real practice areas, a highlighted "rural urbanism" section, testimonials, repeated calls to action and a floating WhatsApp button for the quickest possible first contact.

Performance & build

Same engineering discipline as my own site, no compromises for a client. No framework and zero runtime dependencies; the critical CSS is inlined at build time so the page paints without waiting on a stylesheet request; fonts are self-hosted woff2; and imagery is served as responsive AVIF/WebP. Scroll-reveal animations are subtle and fully respect prefers-reduced-motion.

The result shows in PageSpeed Insights: 100 in Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices and SEO.

The contact form

Enquiries are the whole point of the site, so the form had to be reliable. A serverless Cloudflare Function receives each submission and relays it to the client's inbox through Resend — nothing is stored, the message is simply forwarded and discarded. It's hardened and resilient:

• A hidden honeypot field silently traps spam bots.
• Validation runs server-side, independent of the browser.
• It's progressively enhanced: with JavaScript it submits via fetch and shows inline status; without it, the plain form post still works and redirects to a thank-you page.

Privacy & security by default

The site takes the same stance on privacy that I take on my own: zero cookies, zero analytics and zero tracking. Fonts are self-hosted, so the browser never makes a single third-party request that could be used to follow a visitor. There's no cookie banner for a very simple reason — there are no cookies to consent to.

That let us write what's probably the shortest, most honest cookie policy you'll read — a deliberate decision by the client and me, drafted as part of the engagement. You can read it here.

The same respect-the-visitor idea carries into security: the site ships with a strict Content Security Policy (Trusted Types included), HSTS with preload, and a Permissions-Policy that switches off the browser APIs the site doesn't need.

Built to be found

Because the audience is local, the site is wrapped in LegalService structured data — address, geo-coordinates, the areas served (Alicante and all of Spain), opening hours and practice areas — to help it surface in local search and rich results. It also ships with everything a Spanish business site is expected to have: a legal notice, and privacy and cookie policies.

The structured data validates cleanly in the Schema.org validator and passes Google's Rich Results Test.

Status

Live at abogadadelatierra.es.