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How We Do Website Redesigns

Did you know that we offer website redesign services that don't require you to re-platform to RebelMouse? We understand the word "redesign" can seem a bit daunting, but a high-quality, well-functioning site is of paramount importance to your social traffic and success. Facebook announced earlier this year that they would kill reach to posts that link to low-quality, spammy sites — and any site containing a video ad is now considered Facebook enemy No. 1.

Let us help.


RebelMouse offers standalone redesign services separate from all of our other offerings. Our team of experts can work with you to make sure your content is taking full advantage of your site's current design and delivering meaningful ROI. By weaving social connections into our product, and studying what resonates with audiences through what is and isn't working across many different clients, we make it easy for anyone to launch a site that is as intuitive to users as scrolling through Instagram.

It's how we've built some of the biggest new media pop culture hits of our times.

There's no need to complicate or overthink things. We'll analyze your site's navigation structure and how well users interact with your content to create a mix of design, user experience, and branding recommendations that will better capture your audiences.

Key components of our website redesigns:

Audit traffic patterns and sources. We get down and dirty with your data to see where your audiences live and where to uncover new opportunities for growth.

We grew Odyssey Online by nearly two million new users in just one month by understanding where their most meaningful traffic comes from.

Identify key growth potential. We have an eye for where your treasure chest is located. We'll make sure your site is optimized for the content and features that create loyalty, and in turn, revenue and audience growth.

We can help you click with the right audiences to bring in serious engagement and growth potential.

Create a design that keeps users longer, encourages them to share more, and works with Facebook's algorithms. We were born in the age of social, which means we have a deep understanding of how a site design should work in harmony with social channels. True growth comes when content can move across platforms easily — that same ease should be reflected on your site. We create experiences that mimic the social feeds.

Axios is benefitting from our Social UX for Media format, which makes your site as viral and binge-worthy as the social feeds.

Integrate monetization options into your design, including native, programmatic, and social sells. The way revenue is made in the world of new media is always changing. We keep up with these constant updates so you don't have to. We ensure your ads are non-intrusive and favored by the many algorithms so that both your ROI and user experience aren't negatively affected.

We helped One Country experience 200% revenue growth this year.

RebelMouse offers an array of standalone strategy services separate from our CMS platform. Whether you need help with a redesign, content and distribution, product strategy, or anything else, our team of experts are here to ensure you get the most out of your current setup to create a thriving brand in the age of social.

Particle Assembler: Ads in Slideshows Now Supported

You can now insert ads between slides in a slideshow!

Monetizing users' engagement and page views is pivotal to most digital businesses, and our Particle Assembler has been an invaluable tool in helping RebelMouse clients to insert native ads seamlessly into their content. Now we've taken this functionality one step further by introducing support for ads between slides in Assembler's slideshow layout.

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Inside RebelMouse’s Quality Assurance Operations

How We've Perfected Stress-Free Publishing

At RebelMouse, we like to refer to our enterprise publishing platform as "lean tech." Most publishers have a natural inclination to start doubling down on teams of developers who try to build unique experiences to help stand out above the noise. But they should actually be doing the opposite: Lean tech is the preferred way to cut through content saturation. By allowing RebelMouse to obsess over your product, content producers, editors, managers, and everyone in between can focus on creating quality content and taking advantage of opportunities to leverage distributive publishing strategies that create real revenue growth.

One of the major reasons we're able to maintain a lean tech environment is thanks to our approach to quality assurance (QA). We make updates to our platform daily to ensure our clients always have access to the most robust, high-performing, and secure version of our platform. Behind the scenes, this means having a solid QA structure that's efficient, creates less bugs, and catches the ones that do pop up before they go live. It's a system of checks and balances that's hard and costly to replicate on a custom CMS. Here's a glimpse into how it works.

Our Tech Stack Toolbox

  • Cucumber
  • Java
  • Junit
  • Maven
  • Selenium WebDriver
  • TeamCity
  • Zalenium (Selenium Grid)

Our Checks and Balances Workflow

Automated Regression Testing Cycle

The Lifecycle of a Product Update

When an update is first made to RebelMouse, TeamCity immediately triggers the start of automated tests to review integrity.

TeamCity Build

TeamCity Agent

The tests run in parallel on TeamCity's Build Agent. Next, Zalenium creates docker containers with browsers that matches the count of parallel threads. An Allure report is then generated from the test results, which shows the state of the application after the update.

Allure Report Pass

If a test doesn't complete successfully, the testing framework receives a video with a failed test and attaches it to the Allure report.

Allure Report Issue

Based on the report analysis, a QA specialist will create a "bug" ticket in our product management software to address the issue if needed. Then, information about the bug is immediately sent to the project manager and we begin the process of correcting the problem.

The media powerhouses we power can publish with confidence knowing that any product issues that arise are met with a tried-and-true process to fix the problem with little-to-no disturbance to their workflow. If you have any questions about this process, please email support@rebelmouse.com.

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Related Posts vs. Posts in Assembler

Here's the difference between Related Posts and Posts in Assembler.

By using Related Posts and Posts in Assembler, you can help your audience stay engaged with your site's content and generate more traffic. Both of these features can be added to any post through Entry Editor.

When creating or editing a post, you can add a Related Posts section to the bottom of it that consists of a selection of existing posts on your site that you choose to surface. Only the main image and content headline are pulled, along with a link to the original post. This is similar to the Around the Web section that also shows up at the end of your post when you enable it from the SEO tab of Entry Editor.

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