Our Work

Work & clients

The systems we have designed, built and now maintain for our clients, plus 20+ years of earlier web, branding and photography projects.

Featured Work

Learning platforms we build & rebrand

We design, develop and maintain learning management systems, then rebrand each client's sections with their own identity, so the platform looks entirely their own.

Connect App · Build & Maintain

ELRU

The Connect app, designed, developed and maintained by Tech Data for ELRU's Early Learning Practitioner Programme (ELP).

LMS · Build, Maintain & Rebrand

TOGI

A learning platform for the Two Oceans Graduate Institute (TOGI), designed, developed and maintained by Tech Data, with sections rebranded to match TOGI's own look and feel.

Website · LMS · App · Long-standing client

The Leadership College

A client since 2015, from their school website and CMS to a fully branded learning platform and the House System app, which we continue to develop and maintain.

What This Work Involves

Running a platform that qualifications depend on

Building a learning platform is the small part. Keeping one running for an institution whose accreditation depends on it is the real job, and it is a different discipline entirely. Intakes open and close on fixed dates. Assessment deadlines cannot move because a server needed patching. When a cohort of students all submit on the same evening, the platform has to absorb it without anyone noticing.

That shapes how we work on these systems. Changes go out at times that do not collide with teaching or assessment. Upgrades are rehearsed against a copy of the real environment before they touch the live one. Backups are verified by actually restoring them, because an untested backup is only a belief about a backup.

The rebranding side is more than a logo swap. Learners and staff should experience the platform as their institution's, not as somebody else's software with a badge on it, so the identity carries through the sections they actually spend time in. Done properly it removes a quiet source of confusion, particularly for adult learners returning to study after a long gap.

Alongside that sits the unglamorous work that determines whether a platform is genuinely useful: enrolling learners in bulk without a week of manual capture, getting reports out in the format a funder or accreditation body will accept, and making sure a lecturer can do their job without submitting a support ticket.

Built to be handed over

Every platform is documented well enough that the institution is not dependent on any one person's memory, including ours. Staff turn over, and a system only one person understands is a risk sitting quietly on the balance sheet.

Maintained, not just delivered

Most of the client work shown here is still live and still ours to look after, some of it for a decade or more. Long relationships are the honest measure of this kind of work, more so than any launch-day screenshot.

Sized for the institution

A college of a few hundred learners does not need what a university needs, and paying for it helps nobody. We build to the actual load and leave the room to grow, rather than selling capacity that sits idle.

More projects

20+ years of delivered work

Web design and development, branding and commercial photography for clients across the Western Cape.

The work below predates our focus on learning platforms, and we keep it here deliberately. School and business websites with CMS back-ends taught us what non-technical staff will actually maintain once the developer leaves. Brand and identity work is why our platforms tend to look considered rather than assembled. Commercial photography under our Digital Capture arm still runs today, most visibly as school photo days. Different outputs, but the same underlying habit: understand the client's operation first, then build the thing that fits it.