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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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Making Google reCAPTCHA v2 play nice with browser form validation

CAPTCHA is an essential need on online forms, but to be blunt, the UX sucks. Without the implementation tips (helpfully detailed below), Google’s otherwise reliable reCAPTCHA service implemented “as-is” doesn’t actually provide any browser validation. The user will have to wait for it to make a time-consuming round trip to the server. It’s a problem for anyone and becomes compounded for users with accessibility needs.

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Creating accessible links to help users discover your site’s content treasures

Links are among a website's most valuable components. They connect (that’s what the word “link” means, after all) different pages and resources, helping site visitors find the content they are looking for. Well-planned and formatted links are like a detailed, intuitive treasure map that sends visitors to the right destination.

Links are also critical for making your website accessible to visitors with visual or other impairments. A link that lacks important information can prevent some visitors from accessing all the treasures a website holds. Or even worse, it can send users to completely undesirable content and discourage them from exploring all your site has to offer.

In this post, I’ll discuss how to present links in various contexts, clearly explaining how they can create and inform powerful relationships between different pages and assets.

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AWS EC2 is cost-effective – with a little planning and smart management

Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 has the reputation of being a pricey option for cloud-based hosting and compute resources. Certainly, that was our initial impression here at Mugo Web years ago when we began standardizing our hosting and site management business on a single cloud platform.

However, we quickly discovered that AWS is actually quite affordable. In fact, our monthly costs for a virtual machine using 8GB of RAM, at 100% usage, is predictably lower with AWS than with other virtualized or traditional data centers. That’s without aggressively tuning our resource usage, which is often the focus of how to optimize AWS pricing.

In this post, I’ll show you how AWS can be a cost-effective option for professionally managed websites. I’ll also take a quick look at some of the additional savings tactics you can employ to get more value from your decision to run on AWS.

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Convenience + security: best practices for AWS access key management

In this blog post I am going to talk about several security best practices, particularly for configuring AWS Access Keys. Some of these practices are based on a project that we inherited which was compromised by hackers. Best practices are often learned from mistakes; and when the mistakes are someone else's, so much the better!

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The Mugo Page Bundle is live!

If you were used to the Open Source version of eZ Publish, you are probably familiar with the eZ Flow extension, which allows editors to build pages visually specifying the components based on a Layout, Zones, and Blocks system. Users that have migrated to the Ibexa OSS might have noticed that there is no such system available, only the Ibexa Page Builder, which is restricted to the Enterprise version.

At Mugo, we love to contribute to the Open Source community. After identifying this need, we decided to create a prototype for an alternative to the eZ Flow extensions for Ibexa OSS. With that in mind, we created the Mugo Page Bundle as a simple way to build page layouts.

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