Magus news & events

Sharing and caring: glimpsing the future at J. Boye 2012

simon — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:09:06 +0000

Last week, I was at the J. Boye web and intranet conference in Philadelphia. The three-day conference featured 50 speakers delivering talks and tutorials in eight different topic tracks. I had the privilege of speaking at the conference on the topic of “Going Mobile – How mobile-ready are corporate websites?” and competing in the American …

Magus retains Web Idol title

news — Thu, 10 May 2012 10:50:17 +0000

Magus has once again been crowned Web Idol at the J. Boye Conference in Philadelphia — the premier conference for web and internet managers. Our CEO Simon Lande beat off stiff competition from the likes of Bridgeline Digital, IGLOO Software, Kentico and Onion.net to win the 2012 audience vote and seize the trophy. The fast-paced …

How Web Standards Help Create a Great Mobile Experience

simon — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:12:19 +0000

As our recent study with Investis showed, only 20% of the UK’s largest companies currently have mobile websites, primarily due to the complexities, challenges and costs of designing an effective user experience for this medium. A particular challenge is the fact that best practice standards for traditional (desktop) websites are not all directly applicable to …

ActiveStandards Spring 12 Release: What’s new?

nicola — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:43:30 +0000

Our Spring ’12 release of ActiveStandards is something of a milestone. We’ve undertaken a significant overhaul of the user interface – and as Friday’s post revealed, we’ve also updated the application’s back-end. So why exactly have we made these changes, and, more importantly, how do they benefit our clients? Wired for workflow Most of the …

Making ActiveStandards stronger, more flexible, and even more reliable

dan — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:29:17 +0000

With our Spring ’12 Release we’re making our most substantial update to ActiveStandards since it was launched in 2006. One of the key things about this particular release is that all the features you’re used to have been retained, but we’ve overhauled the underlying platform technology to deliver an application that is more user-friendly, more …