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We primarily use two technologies in Web Development here at Matter Solutions.

WordPress Web Development

Looking for expert WordPress website development in Brisbane? Matter Solutions is here to enhance your website with new and additional features, but our strategic approach means we're always thinking about, and advocating for, your users. Will this new feature add value, or could it slow things down and detract in some way.

Okay, we've found a feature that we're confident will add-value to your website. What next?

Our experienced team specialises in developing custom functionality to improve user experience (UX), boost performance, and meet your evolving business needs.

We have extensive experience ensuring your WordPress site stays ahead of the curve:-

  • Integrating existing advanced (free and) premium plugins, e.g. GravityForms, GravityView, ACF Pro and WPML and many more.
  • Optimising for speed - a serious part of Technical SEO too.
  • Adding unique capabilities with custom plugins just for you.

Laravel Web Development

Laravel empowers a number of excellent features, we've used it for clients in the following ways with great success:-

  1. Rapid Development - Migrating a legacy MVCC system, i.e. Code Igniter into Laravel, and FuelPHP into Laravel.
  2. Prototyping - Building a system using an Agile Methodology to create the shape, and structure and functionality desired by an entrepreneur.
  3. Support + Maintenance + Development - Actively troubleshoot, maintain (with upgrades etc) and support a cohort of users, and incrementally improve the system over time.

The testimonial from Katrina at Ontex refers directly to all three services here.

Other Web Developer Technologies

It is worth noting that we have extensive experience with systems admin.

This includes primary technologies stacks and what we call "equivalent technologies" that can be swapped in place instead of specific components to improve functionality, performance or both.

  • LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP
  • Docker - Developing on portable virtual machines
  • NGINX + PHP-FPM & Varnish Cachine
  • MariaDB - instead of MySQL
  • Percona XtraDB - for running clustered databases which directly replace MySQL
  • MongoDB - NoSQL when appropriate

We're also have skills with foundational server and sysadmin technologies:-

  • WPCLI - WordPress' own scripting tool for command line management
  • PHP - command line based scripting, used for automation
  • Selenium - for automation of web browsers, e.g. for testing and repetitive tasks
  • Bash scripts, usually for server management
  • Perl scripts - great for text processing

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Articles about Web Development

January 29, 2013
MSapp Database Upgraded

Clients and past SEO training attendees who use our MSapp system will notice some speed improvements as the platform has been seriously upgraded this morning. For those of you who like […]

August 9, 2012
What's the best way to migrate a WordPress website?

If you've got a WordPress website (or any website for that matter!), chances are you're going to need to move it at some point - whether you're moving from development to […]

August 8, 2012
How 37 Signals Missed a Trick with the new Basecamp Design - It's not Responsive

Pretty Vs Ugly When 37Signals unveiled their ‘new’ Basecamp late last year I was most impressed with the new look and feel. Let’s face it, Basecamp classic could have won an […]

July 31, 2012
Hard Drive Fried by Storm

Last week, while I was in the US at Mozcon, a conference for SEO Professionals from around the World. When I got back (yes to the office) from Brisbane Airport at […]

April 14, 2012
Gravity Forms Add-On for CapsuleCRM

I really like CapsuleCRM. It really epitomises what is great about the web: A simple system, with a true "Killer App." To coin a dot-com-boom phrase: Manage your customers - that […]

January 10, 2012
Making Gravity Forms process a custom form in 3 easy steps

A problem I have found in the past is being able to code my own web form just the way I want it, whilst still allowing the powerful Gravity Forms plugin […]

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