Welcome to TGCDesign Web Solutions

TGCDesign offers you design and set-up services for the following products:

 

Genesis Framework ™, by StudioPress, is a light weight and extremely fast framework for WordPress that uses child themes for its delivery.  Let us set up your next website and provide you with a custom theme that’s uniquely yours.

 

ExpressionEngine ™, By ElisLabs, is one of the most flexible content management systems available today. With its unique template system we can integrate any design you need and include a vast array of commercial elements into your website.

 

CodeIgniter ™ is an open source PHP framework which allows total freedom to develop complex php applications. Have an old static website that ranks well? With CodeIgniter we can add WordPress ™ functionality without disturbing your current URL structure and preserve your current site ranking.


What’s new…

Why I dumped HostGator

Back sometime in mid 2011, I opened an account with HostGator. I purchased a shared/reseller account mainly to separate all of my other domains into their own cPanel accounts. This domain was my first account there (after the new reseller domain name) and to be honest with you, it never performed well at all. The proof is in the graph I use Google's Webmaster Tools for all of my sites. In there you will find a section entitled Diagnostics where you can see Crawler Stats. This is a graphical … [Read More...]

VPS Hosting by Liquid Web

I just signed up for VPS hosting with Liquid Web and wow, what a difference. I had this site on a shared hosting plan but wasn't happy with its performance. One of the main drawbacks to shared hosting is site performance. When I had this site on shared hosting, there were times when my pages took several seconds to load! It wasn’t uncommon to wait 6-10 seconds before any page was rendered. That’s an important factor when you realize that if a page takes longer than 3 seconds to load, you've … [Read More...]

Exploring the Genesis Framework

If you've ever used WordPress you probably know about premium themes and frameworks. This post is related to the Genesis Framework by StudioPress. I have just purchased the Genesis Framework and am exploring the options available to create your own "child themes". Being new to WordPress I found their system to be quite easy to learn and adapt to your needs. Genesis uses "child themes" to extend the framework for styling purposes. With as little as a new style sheet you can create your own … [Read More...]