Case study · Website work
Tanzania Peak & Safari
Guiding & trip planning — mbeta.org
Baraka Tarimo guides climbs on Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru, and safaris in Tanzania. His site ran on WordPress with Elementor and a stack of page-builder and gallery plugins. He needed a fast site on the hosting he already had, with an admin he could use from his phone.
What we built
- Seven climbing routes — Lemosho, Machame, Marangu, Rongai, Umbwe, Shira and the Northern Circuit — each with its own page: day-by-day itineraries, prices and a route map. The itineraries are written into the page on the server, so search engines and link previews see them without any JavaScript.
- Pricing and FAQs for climbs and safaris, and a Plan your climb hub with five guides: the best time to climb, a packing list, altitude safety, the crew, and Mount Meru.
- Guest reviews. A guest writes a review, it is held, and the guide publishes it from the admin. Published reviews show with an average score. Reviews received on Google or WhatsApp can be added by hand.
- Photo albums from a phone. Uploads are resized on the server, which strips the location data from each photo. Once an album has photos, it replaces the home page gallery.
- Trip enquiries composed as a WhatsApp message or an email, and a credits page for the freely licensed Wikimedia Commons photos.
- The old site's addresses are unchanged, so existing links keep working.
How it's built
Plain PHP pages with a small SQLite database for reviews and photo albums. There are no plugins, no theme and no build step. It runs on the GoDaddy cPanel hosting the site already had, with its settings and database kept outside the public web folder. Every change to the code deploys itself. It uses the same setup as velocitydata.com and silveradoparts.com.
Outcome
Off WordPress and four page-builder and gallery plugins. The guide publishes reviews and photo albums from his phone.