Official Tunisia.com Blog

How I love my new lifestyle I wake up and go for a coffee without needing ten pounds and always go home for lunch. The problem I have is getting anything done at all since everyone is so laid back, I have had to resign myself to only achieving one or max two tasks a day as even walking through Bizerte is to run the gauntlet of bumping into a relative and to be engaged in a conversation for 20 minutes.

We have made good progress this week with the information being pulled from the old website and placed into a file for data cleaning before being inserted into the new design. You see this time we are changing the system from asp.net custom system to a more cost effective php platform which should be easier to maintain now that I am in Tunisia and there are no so many .net coders here especially with something bespoke. After years of experience with websites and online marketing I am defiantly a proponent of the 80/20 rule which means that if something does 80% of what you need work with it if 20% of what you need then build it yourself custom.

With the new system we are implementing CSS and JavaScript compression to improve the speed of the site as with the new design we have more graphics and updated the design to look better on larger displays. We are also looking at how to get users more involved with the site and trying to get user generated content and feedback into the website which for us and our customers is a win win situation.

We have also been speaking to some large Tunisian companies to be involved in sponsoring sections and providing information on the site and we have some big names already confirmed which has made me very happy as the stage after this is to overhaul the information on the site as we work to make it all that it can be. As you may or not know we had over 50,000 people on the website in January and February which is an important milestone and just shows what can be achieved especially as we know more than anyone how much better we can be.