‘We Love WP’ is an international showcase of the best WordPress powered websites on the web. The site exists to demonstrate what designers around the world are doing with WordPress.

Only 1 in 10 websites submitted makes it to their online gallery. We’ve recently had three of our WordPress sites showcased on the site, which is quite an achievement.

The following sites have been accepted into the gallery:

• Christchurch Indulge
• New Zealand Travel Blog
• New Zealand Trade Manual

You can view other WordPress powered websites online at: http://welovewp.com

Did you know that the IT industry and in particular the web industry, is a major contributor to climate change? It takes a lot of electricity to power data centres full of web servers and that adds up to roughly the same carbon emissions per server as a SUV.

All TML Web Design websites are hosted with Hostgator in Texas. Hostgator has taken their environmental responsibilities seriously by investing in Green-e certified Renewable Energy Credits (RECs). They use renewable energy to both power and cool their web servers, meaning their servers are 130% powered by wind technology.

This is the equivalent of:

• Removing 444 cars from the road for a year, or
• Saving 5,654 barrels of oil, or
• Protecting 551 acres of forest for a year

That’s got to be good for the environment.

If you’d like to move your web hosting to a green platform, give us a call on 03 366 3340 or email us on info@tmlwebdesign.co.nz.

It was back in 1995 that Travel Media Limited first ventured into ‘cyber space’ as we called it back then! We went online with an internet business directory that was just a little ahead of its time. This was after all, a time when 14k modems were still in use, many homes didn’t even have computers and email was pretty much just a work thing.

Around this time we also commenced development of a multimedia CD-ROM – even though many personal computers didn’t even have a CD-ROM drive – in fact we looked back at our marketing materials from this time to find that “50,000 CD-ROM drives are currently in use in New Zealand”. Clearly we were looking ahead to the future. And that future has always included emerging technologies. We’ve seen a lot since the early days – the rise and fall of the Netscape browser (relegated to history thanks to the ‘browser wars’), the dot.com boom and bust, web 1.0, web 2.0, the rise and rise of the Firefox web browser and the growing sophistication of open source web software.

Thanks in large part to the open source movement we can now offer you a suite of web design packages that are full of fantastic features and functionality and the latest web technologies.

We’ve also put you in the control seat of just about everything to do with your website – from uploading images to online photo galleries, to adding new pages and publishing a blog. We know there are many other ways for you to manage your own website, and we’ve seen a lot the content management systems that are out there. We also know from you, that most of them are just too darn hard for regular folk to use. That’s why the content management system we use and recommend is WordPress – which was developed as an open source project 5 years ago by a 19-year old American college student called Matt Mullenweg.

WordPress took off in a big way as a blogging tool, and it’s now used around the world as a web publishing platform for all types of websites – even e-commerce. There is a core group of international developers that are constantly developing the next version of WordPress and literally thousands of independent programmers writing software plugins for WordPress.

So what does this mean for you? It means your website can be run off a system that is both rich in features and functionality yet stunningly simple to use. You can take full advantage of the programming grunt work that happens every day around the world. Never again will you be locked into a proprietary content management system built by one developer who could get run over by a bus.

With one of our web design packages you can run your own blog with an RSS feed that your web visitors can subscribe to, hook your website up to your Facebook page or account, publish your YouTube videos, and make it easy for your visitors to add your site to their social networking profiles and bookmarks.

We’ve entered the age of the ‘mash up’ – pull content from here, push content to there and make it all look good. We can’t think of a better way to do this than with WordPress and the clients we already have on the system were also quick converts!

So give us a call on 03 366 3340 and find out just how your business can benefit from the latest web trends.