Travel Essence Magazine, redesigned to read and to sell.
A full redesign and rebuild of a luxury African travel magazine — faster, safer, SEO-tuned — with a custom in-house e-magazine reader replacing Issuu and an integrated WooCommerce store, backed by daily maintenance. Active users climbed 160%+ year on year.
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A premium magazine held back by its platform.
Travel Essence Magazine publishes luxury travel storytelling across Africa and the Middle East, but the site didn't match the calibre of the work — pages were slow, security and SEO needed attention, and every digital issue lived on a third-party reader (Issuu), so the magazine never fully owned its own experience or audience.
Rebuild it, then own the whole experience.
We redesigned and rebuilt the site from the ground up — tuning performance, speed, security, and SEO — and replaced Issuu with a custom, fully self-hosted e-magazine reader so every issue lives on their own domain. We integrated WooCommerce so readers can buy digital issues directly, and we keep the site healthy with daily maintenance and ongoing monitoring.
Travel Essence Magazine, live.
Built end to end.
Full redesign & rebuild
A faster, more elegant site that finally matches the calibre of the magazine.
Custom e-magazine reader
Replaced Issuu with a self-hosted reader — every issue lives on their own domain.
WooCommerce store
Readers browse and buy digital issues directly, with no third party in the middle.
Performance, SEO & security
Speed, on-page SEO, and hardening — plus daily maintenance and monitoring.
Measurable, where it counts.
What we built it on
Stack“The site finally feels like our magazine — faster, safer, and entirely ours. Readership has grown month after month since the relaunch.”