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At Happy Cog, we've been working with a client on their expansive content ecosystem. Their team has been incredibly productive, creating hundreds of case studies, webinars, blog posts, and resources over the years. But there was one growing challenge: most of their content lacked the concise summaries needed for listing pages, search results, and content discovery.
When choosing a Content Management System (CMS) for your organization, there's no one-size-fits-all solution. Each business has its own needs, audiences, content strategy, and goals. For the majority of Happy Cog's clients, a CMS is in use for years, and making an optimal platform choice is key to ensure longevity and keep costs down. Whether you are building a new web property or replatforming an existing site, making the right decision requires careful consideration of several key factors.
In honor of this year's Take Your Child to Work Day, Happy Coggers again asked their kids: “What do I do at work?” Here’s what they answered:
At Happy Cog, we work on a sprint-based cadence. Designers and developers are allocated to open projects for a specific number of hours in each sprint, and we try to keep our team members planned up to 6 months into the future. Priorities, allocations, and assignments always change during that timeframe, but having a baseline plan in place helps us forecast hiring needs and prepare early for larger engagements.
Let’s face it: change is always hard. It typically requires time, resources, and effort. It will also generally include a learning curve, as well as paying off technical debt – particularly when it comes to web technologies and software. In the web analytics space, Google Analytics 4 (GA4) represents a major change to the class-leading tool that so many of us are familiar with.
International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. This year’s theme of #BreakTheBias highlights the need to support achievements that empower and enable the wide spectrum of women that make up this world.
In 2021, we went from a company with two offices where many of our people worked daily, to a fully remote company. While some of us have years of experience working from home, many others were new to it.
We have tried many platforms to develop mobile apps in the past, but lately we’ve settled on React Native as our platform of choice. It allows us to build native cross-platform (iOS and Android) mobile applications—all from one codebase. And, because it’s just React under-the-hood, anyone on our staff can contribute without having specialized mobile app expertise. This allows us to quickly build an app prototype and rapidly iterate to complete a production-worthy application, in a fraction of the time it would take to build separate applications for each mobile platform.
It’s been 18 years since Happy Cog founder and web standards advocate Jeffrey Zeldman originally published Designing With Web Standards. The web itself may seem in many places unrecognizable now compared to what it was. We’ve added new devices, seen frameworks fall in and out of fashion, matured whole disciplines, seen the real and lasting global impacts of the digital and connected world – for better or for worse. Life without all these things seems nearly unimaginable at this point.
Happy Cog recently launched a new website for Optimize, an online community that teaches members how to improve their lives, drawing wisdom from a variety of teachers and sources. The foundation of the project is a headless Craft back-end that powers a Nuxt-based website and both Android and iOS mobile apps, all via a custom-built API layer. One of the requirements for the mobile apps was the ability to send push notifications for Optimize’s “Daily Wisdom” posts, which we accomplished using a custom Craft module.
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