We build web solutions that optimize traffic, engagement, and revenue
What services can Mugo Web provide your business? Our primary operating principle is to provide excellent customer service in a long-term partnership so that we get to know your company in and out. That means we can often anticipate your development needs and provide solid consulting advice. We’re here to help your business grow by building the web services you need in a user-friendly and accessible site. We help our clients save money through hosting, site optimization, and integrations. Clients can always come to us and expect that we’ll give real answers grounded in experience and expertise. So, whether you know exactly what you’re looking for or are seeking someone to help find the best solution to the pain points of your website, just ask! We can help.
Web development
Our elegant solutions to complex web problems mean easier content management, higher performance results, and more value from your digital offerings. Whether you’re looking for a full site redesign or a custom web app for your existing site, our team of developers has the experience and skills to meet your needs.
A major website project requires a lot of planning. You need to evaluate the tactics and resources needed to meet your launch date, but you also should be planning on how to select the right development partner to ensure that your initial investment in a site launch continues to pay dividends as your business evolves.
WordPress has a flexible and robust ecosystem for creating a wide variety of websites. But when your site needs to grow and expand functionality, having a dedicated, experienced development team to support and build out new features is essential. Learn about Mugo Web’s best practices when it comes to developing in a WordPress environment and see how we’ve helped save clients thousands of dollars with innovative solutions.
Infrastructure and cloud hosting
The best website in the world means nothing if it doesn’t have secure and reliable hosting. We can help ensure that not only is your site set up to optimize your performance, but in the most cost-effective way possible. We’ve saved our clients many thousands of dollars by ensuring they have the right hosting environment for their needs.
Monitoring your web infrastructure is key for several reasons. It enables you to gain insights into the performance and health of your resources, identify potential issues, and make informed decisions for optimization. AWS offers a comprehensive monitoring solution through Amazon CloudWatch, which provides built-in metrics and the flexibility to create custom metrics.
On-demand IT infrastructure is a great option for cost-conscious companies that want enterprise-class technology without investing in physical hardware or dedicated space in a datacenter. As certified AWS partners, we can help you understand your options for cost optimization.
Accessibility audits and remediation
Having an accessible website is not only the law in many regions, but it’s also a good business practice to make sure your site can reach the most people possible. We can provide audits for your existing sites as well as remediation and redesign to help you conform to current standards and guidelines for accessibility.
Download a free copy of our ebook on accessibility.
Explore a few case studies of accessibility audits and remediation we’ve done for clients.
Site optimizations
A website is an investment, and if your site isn’t optimized it’s losing you money. We can help audit your site for performance issues so you know exactly what is holding your site back, and then help implement solutions to reduce load time, optimize images, and clean up unused code. We also can help implement monitoring to track performance over time and help address issues before they affect your page ranking.
Getting the most out of your WordPress site can take some work. You want a site that looks great, loads quickly, and provides a good user experience for visitors. Unfortunately, WordPress sites often struggle with optimizing images, which can cause significant delays in load time and produce sub-optimal experiences for users on mobile devices. With a little effort, you can create responsive images and drastically improve your site’s performance, both for users and search engines.
While YouTube embed options are powerful and effective, they are not always the most efficient use of resources when it comes to bandwidth. Using a facade can help decrease page load time and increase site performance without sacrificing any of the utility of the native YouTube embed options.
eCommerce integrations
Not all eCommerce solutions are created equal. Out-of-the-box solutions likely don’t serve the specifics of your business. That’s why you need a development partner who can not only integrate your third-party solutions into your site but who can also build custom solutions around those integrations to help increase sales and make your site more versatile.
A retail shopping cart e-commerce system isn’t up to the standard customers of specialty presses expect. The specific demands of this industry require an integrated, purpose-built commerce experience.
Playwrights Canada needed tailored search options to make their product easier to find by the correct audiences. Mugo Web (as ReaderBound) built a system to allow for detailed and custom filtering of plays, increasing both discoverability and sales.
Marketing automation
Your website should support and enhance your marketing efforts and help keep your audience engaged and having the best experience possible with your brand. This requires consistent messaging, timely content, and integrations with your Customer Relationship Management system so you know exactly what is working within your marketing strategy. We can integrate your site with your CRM and build automated workflows to ensure that your marketing efforts are working for you, saving you time and energy.
Business data is inevitably distributed across multiple systems. However, we know that customers are not prepared to deal with that kind of complexity, especially when they see little relevance or value to the task at hand. A typical location for this kind of friction is in the integration of the Content Management System (CMS) and the Customer Relationship Management system (CRM). Integrating the two can help provide a seamless experience for the customer and increase the overall usability of your website.
The Mugo Web team worked with one of our long-time clients, FindaTopDoc.com, to execute a seamless migration from its existing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system to a new platform.
Web app solutions
Are you looking to manage large data sets and workflows through a centralized and accessible portal? A custom web app can be a powerful and cost-effective way to increase interaction between your website and users, and we can develop a solution idealized for your business.
Online Daily Evaluations is a CanMEDS compliant and RIME compliant evaluation system custom built by Mugo web. It eliminates manual input and data collection with customizable online course evaluation forms for medical students.
CanSubmit is the easiest way to accept book manuscript submissions online. Built by Mugo Web specifically for publishers, every feature is custom designed to help manage submission workflow in a way that makes sense for editors and submitters.
Solutions for public libraries
Mugo Library is an all-in-one website platform that incorporates all the features modern libraries need for digital service into one easy-to-use CMS. Mugo Library integrates with your catalog and ILS, has custom event registration forms and calendars, manages your meeting spaces, and more.
Mugo Library was initially developed as a custom solution for the Marigold and Peace Library Systems in Alberta, Canada. They needed a CMS that could handle individual websites for each of their member libraries. Since its launch, two other regional libraries, Yellowhead Regional Library and Northern Lights Library System, have joined the platform, which now supports nearly 200 libraries.
One of the most versatile features of the Mugo Library platform is the custom forms, which allow libraries to increase engagement on their websites. Mugo Custom Forms are fully accessible, secure, easy to set up, and user-friendly. Libraries have used these for patron surveys, scavenger hunts, reading programs, patrons requests, and more.
Solutions for book publishers
Book publishers need websites that serve multiple audiences. Not only is your website a digital storefront for your catalog, but it also is how you engage with readers, writers, and the literary community at large. You need a site that can manage complex Onix databases, showcase products in an accessible fashion, and manage a variety of content to drive engagement.
Showcase your books, attract readers, and drive sales with ReaderBound, a solution for book publishers developed and supported by Mugo Web.
The 49th Shelf aims to provide access to every Canadian book; to provide a platform for discovering, learning about, discussing and promoting, buying, and finding books. 49th Shelf has been a Mugo Web partner since 2011. Most recently, we helped them launch 49th Kids, a new site to promote Canadian literature and provide resources for children and parents.
Solutions for magazine publishers
Mugo Web has extensive experience working with magazine publishers creating solutions suited for modern digital publishing. We can help you develop custom workflows, automated marketing integrations, and tiered paywalls to help entice customers with adjustable options.
Subscription paywalls are an essential part of any publisher’s strategy to build a strong brand and diversified revenue stream. Our team at Mugo Web has worked with several publishers to implement paywalls based on content type, age, and subscription level. Imagine any criteria you can, and we’ve built a paywall to give site visitors gated access to premium content.
Habitat Magazine needed to be creative in evolving its traditional print paid circulation model into a thriving multi-channel, online strategy. Their initiatives are focused on creating new digital revenue streams and engagement for its established user base.
Ibexa DXP solutions
We have over 16 years of experience working with the Ibexa DXP (formally eZ Publish) platform, and have the largest development team and most combined experience of any partner in North America. We’re proud of what we’ve been able to contribute to this platform and the long-lasting relationships we’ve built with clients. Ibexa DXP is more than just a CMS, it’s a content engine that, unlike other open-source CMSs, puts you in full control of the content on your site.
Our development team implemented a custom search for long-term client, the American Museum of Natural History, using an Apache Solr index and the Ibexa DXP’s native Object Relation Model (ORM) that communicates directly with the content database to populate the production website.
Mugo has been working with The Christian Science Monitor since April 2010. CSMonitor.com is the hub for the online, Kindle, and print editions, as well as for multiple syndication channels. It is the most visited eZ Publish site in North America.
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Whether you have an established website needing optimization and additional functionality or are looking to establish a world-class website for a new business model, Mugo Web is the development partner you're looking for.
