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Archive of past Mugo Web projects

While many Mugo projects transition into long-term partnerships, we are also called upon to help companies with specific projects for short-term goals. Our team are trusted experts, who can support in-house developers in many different enterprises. We're proud of the work we did in these cases and are happy to showcase our experience.

Hootsuite

Mugo partnership 2014

Hootsuite- the world's most widely used social media relationship platform

Hootsuite's website had been created by great organic growth, but as their company and needs matured, they sought out an enterprise content management system. It needed to be scalable, enable quick content changes, support many integrations, and bring together multiple departments. They chose eZ Publish as the CMS and Mugo Web as the principal implementation team. For the entire year during implementation, Mugo Developers worked from the Hootsuite offices as their in-house development team.

Together with the Hootsuite marketing team, Mugo built a framework independent of the Hootsuite product stack to support future growth and content management best practices so that the website could be a lead generation machine.

Mugo did the following at Hootsuite:

  • Installed eZ Publish 5 on the Symfony2 framework and Twig
  • Set up a multi-language framework for French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish (Latin America), and Spanish (Spain)
  • Set up multi-currency pricing on product pages
  • Implemented a translation workflow where content was exported to a translation agency and then re-imported
  • Created rich text tools for editors to create tabbed content, grids, image carousels, and other sophisticated layout elements
  • Configured an editorial workflow with content staging
  • Enabled editors to control SEO fields, URL paths, JavaScript tags, and site menus in the back-end
  • Enabled multi-upload media asset management
  • Migrated several microsites into a single CMS to manage events, webinars, a careers page, press releases, a media kit, product pages, and more
  • Installed the website on an Amazon cloud architecture with Varnish and a MySQL database master-slave configuration
  • Configured Ansible and Vagrant for server deployments, development, staging, and production environments, and distributed development

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eWEEK

Mugo partnership 2015

eWEEK (formerly PC Week) was the flagship publication of QuinStreet Enterprise

eWEEK was the flagship publication of QuinStreet Enterprise. Originally PC Week when it launched in 1983, it covered technology news, enterprise IT trends, and reviews of new tech products in a variety of digital formats.

Mugo built a new website for eWEEK that enabled:

  • Automation: Content was automatically showcased on a variety of pages, sidebars, lists and other access points to increase views and clicks
  • Flexibility: Editors could easily change and add content categories, customize sidebars and rebuild page structures, without technical support
  • Speed: In a matter of minutes, content or sales teams could create a microsite for an advertiser to showcase content and generate leads
  • Variety: Editors had the ability to produce a wide variety of content formats including articles, blog posts, videos, and digital events like scheduled online forums

Car and Driver

Mugo partnership 2008

Mugo migrated Car and Driver's website, holding 50,000 content objects, to run on a platform based on eZ Publish. We focused on implementing a new design, setting up new content organization, and implementing some enhanced, interactive features such as an advanced image gallery and a car configurator.

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