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TRM Tax Attorneys

A 101-page web application, not a website. Built for South Africa's leading tax law firm around a genuinely complex, custom-built publications database, an internal media streaming platform, an embedded e-book reader and custom PDF-generation software.

The challenge

TRM needed something a template site could never deliver: a real database engine to organise decades of tax law publications, rulings and client-facing material for one of South Africa's leading tax law firms, searchable and cross-referenced properly, not a folder of PDFs with a search bar bolted on.

The approach

We treated it as software from the first architecture decision, not a website with a lot of pages. At the core is a custom-built database, structured, indexed and searchable, engineered to handle a genuinely large and constantly growing body of publications without turning into an unusable maze. An internal media streaming platform, an embedded e-book reader with page-flip functionality, and custom PDF-generation software all run on top of it as one coherent system, not a pile of plugins bolted onto WordPress.

What this involved

• •101 pages of structured content, built to be searched, not just browsed
• •Custom-built, indexed publications database handling real complexity at scale
• •Internal media streaming platform
• •Embedded e-book reader with responsive page-flip functionality
• •Custom PDF-generation software

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