WP Dev and Design Agency

[casionmark]

Hi - can anyone recommend a good design and development agency for WP sites?

Has anyone worked with these guys before - https://elegancedesign.net/igaming/.

Thanks,
Mark

[chaumi]

If you want examples of EleganceDesign work, the team regularly post here.

https://www.gpwa.org/member/elegancedesign-net

[casionmark]

Have you used them?

[chaumi]

No. But...

In case no one else here has either...

1. If you go look through their posts, you could easily see the sites that have built, and probably go contact them to find out their experiences
2. They seem like a responsive team, I'd guess they'd freely give some contacts of people they've worked with as references.

[casionmark]

Emailed them through their website this morning. No response yet. Some sites look good.

[connd]

I've used them, their coding/speed isn't as good as their design in my opinion.

Plenty of examples they've posted here have been riddled with geo and functionality errors, you could even find some if you go through their portfolio.

If I were to use them again I'd use their design skills, but not their coding.

[casionmark]

Thanks. Do you have any alternative suggestions?

[LinuxGam]

Very honest of you, design skills are not coding skills and it’s rare (ive never seen it) where people are excellent at design and coding…. Most design company’s learnt coding as the web developed rather than coders learning design.

[LinuxGam]

Thanks. Do you have any alternative suggestions?

I’m not in the market for paid work as such….as the pay versus problems is not worth it in my opinion for a single product. And let’s be honest 99.999% of paid work is based on previous templates anyway, they just add the functionality you need. If you have a brilliant idea and are will to do all the leg work regards content and marketing. I can supply the infrastructure, coding etc

I would also add if you not are not paying for plugins etc and you are building something from scratch PHP is not really the best choice. People use it as they are building on the shoulders of giants (Wordpress) there is nothing wrong with that for a low volume site… but if you targeting huge traffic i would not go that route and build in redis caching etc. (this is assuming you have data thats not tiny, if you are your avg site, it makes no diff).

[codexman]

There will soon be an altenative to WP available - I am currently working on a standalone website builder specifically for casino affiliate websites. It will output static websites that will be very fast and resonsive, hosted as Next.js applications (feels like React app, no page reloads when browsing). I'll share more details and demos soon!