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• 02.05.08
  Redesigning & rebuilding the Mail & Guardian Online Web development | (5)

  Redesigning the M&G Online, the country's oldest news website. Pics below of the first meeting with myself, Vincent Maher (Strategist), Riaan Wolmarans (Editor) and Matthew Burbidge (news editor). Absent at this particular meeting is Bryan Khumalo (Online Sales Manager). We're essentially rebuilding the site and bringing the dev inhouse (previously outsourced) and we're also changing over from .NET to PHP. We've decided to host the site at Internet Solutions. After quite a bit of research we've also decided that we are building our own CMS from scratch. We didn't feel that the open source options we investigated such as Drupal, Joomla ...

  Tagged: Bryan Khumalo, Internet Solutions, Mail & Guardian Online, matthew buckland, Matthew Burbidge, Online Sales, PHP, Riaan Wolmarans, Vincent Maher
  
• 12.13.06
  Mail & Guardian Online, a great 2006, even better 2007 Uncategorized | (6)

  It's been a mad couple of years. It's been gratifying being part of the Mail & Guardian Online success story. We have a small staff of only 10 full timers or so, but they are passionate about the brand. We have seen the site double its local readership and triple its international readership in just over a year or so to become the fourth biggest online publisher in the country (so say Nielsens). This is as a result of the hard work by our online editor Riaan "Rinki" Wolmarans and his team who have put in the hours. In the ...

  Tagged: advertising, Bryan, citizen media, convergence, Even, media, Multimedia, Nielsen, online, online advertising, online division, online publisher, online publishing, Online Sales, Rhodes University, Vincent Maher