Web Design By Tanya

Speed up WordPress with P3 Performance Profiler.

Tanya — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:15:52 +0000

Monitoring your website speed is always a major issue. In our quest to build better and faster websites, we constantly come across a few great tools. Where possible I hope to share these with you.

P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler)

We only recently started to use the P3 plugin and it is an absolute gem. We all love plug-ins, and adding too many is the surest way to slow down your website. However, not all plugins have the same impact on your websites performance. P3 Profiler will run a quick diagnostics on your website and benchmark all your plugins and your themes performance so you can identify what is slowing your website down. Easy to understand and guaranteed to assist you in identifying any speed issues.

View a sample report below:

Download P3 Here

New Website Designed for Ursula Rigby

Tanya — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 06:48:46 +0000

We have recently designed and launched a new website for Cape Town based architect Ursula Riby.
Please visit her website by clicking here.

Why Use Web Design By Tanya for your next Project?

Tanya — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:40:31 +0000

There are many reasons why we should be your website development company of choice. Here are just a few.

Clear and concise development advice.
We try and built the best solutions possible for your specific needs and will not take on a project if we feel it is destined to fail. This initially surprises some of our clients, but is has helped us build transparent relationships with all our clients.
We are open source and only used globally supported systems like WordPress.
Ongoing support and development. We provide post development support and focus on building long term relationships with our web development customers.

Irrespective of what we say, the real measure is our customer feedback. Read our customer reviews on Google by clicking here.

New Website Designed for the Travel Facilitator

Tanya — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:24:14 +0000

Anton Bergstrom is The Travel Facilitator. The Travel Facilitator website provides incredibly good value holiday deals to many of the key destinations in Europe and the Indian Ocean Islands. Please visit the site to view some of the great packages on offer.

New Photographer Website launched for Robin Somogyvari

Tanya — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:25:01 +0000

Robin Somogyvari is a Cape Town based photographer. We have recently launched a new website for Robin, which showcases a number of his awesome photos. Please visit the website by clicking here.

New Website for Momsville

Tanya — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:07:23 +0000

We have recently designed a new website for Momsville. Momsville.co.za provides a platform for parents to discuss parenting issues, post questions and participate in various forums. Momville is built on a WordPress platform utilizing BuddyPress.

New Website for Glass Connection

Tanya — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:34:33 +0000

Glass Connection are aluminium and glass specialists focused on the greater Cape Town market. Over the last 25 years they have developed an appreciation for attention to detail, high standards and timeous project delivery.

Please view their new website by clicking here.

New Website Launched for South African Toilet Association

Tanya — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:11:29 +0000

We recently launched a new website for the South African Toilet Association. SATO strives is to ensure the health and dignity of all South Africans and Africans and to protect the natural resources through the provision of environmentally friendly toilets and sustainable sanitation practices.

Visit their site here.

New Hole in One Society Website

Tanya — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:40:50 +0000

We have recently launched the New Hole in One Society website. The society is dedicated to individuals who have achieved a hole in one in golf. The Society has been active for 20 years and has a well established membership base.

The site uses WordPress and OS Commerce to provide both content management and a scalable shopping cart solution.

You can visit the site at www.hiosociety.com

Website Technology choices.

Tanya — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:38:30 +0000

I recently attended a short presentation in Cape Town where a software development firm presented their company and their core services. Among the many points that were made, there was a strong focus on presenting themselves as a Java development house. This reminded me of the importance of independently choosing the correct technology for your project and not being persuaded to use any particular language because you have initially have been introduced to a specialist firm.

I firmly believe in selecting a technology that best serves your particular project. Selecting Java for a high-end application may well be the best solution, but for a small start-up using good old PHP is often a solid decision. What is not really common knowledge is that Facebook and MySpace where initially built using PHP and there are a host of other major companies that found their footing using PHP. The list includes FlickR, Yahoo, Sourceforge and of course Wikipedia to just scratch the surface. PHP is often seen as a low level language and it is the first language that most developers learn which is probably why you find a lot of really bad PHP out there.

That said, I did notice that the specialty Java company had built their website in PHP.