1. What is the nature of the site? What is it about?
Porsche Brazil (http://www.porsche.com.br) is the Brazilian website for the well-known german sport car company. Website shows the Porsche Philosophy: "Our very products convey the fact that emotion will always be a part of our vision. The starting point for Porsche is the delight of doing your own thing. As a company we face challenges head on"
2. Tell us about your site/company
Extrabold is a Brazilian company specialized in motorsports marketing, focused on career management, press office activities, visual identity projects and, of course, digital marketing. Extrabold's e-Business department is focused on website development and internet solutions. One of our goals is the highly know-how on Mambo and other Open Source solutions... Mostly Mambo projects is related to racing, competition and sports subjects, due to our customers profile as well as our content production.
3. Who are your audience?
Porsche Brazil has a wide range audience. There are:
4. What are the objectives for your site? List at least one.
As I mentioned before, mainly, we're bringing the Porsche Philosophy to everyone that visited Porsche Brazil website. We give them most accurate and complete information about car models, history, factories and motorsport. Despite all this information, we also provide some services like pre-owned cars, multimedia, postcards, FAQ, Brazilian Porsche resellers, etc. Porsche, seduces all the people and give the path to reach your own Porsche.
5. What were the requirements you had for your site?
Build a brand new website (the old one, has just a few static pages) using the new Porsche CI (Corporate Identity), based on a CMS to easy manage the whole content, keeping it on a low budget and a tight time frame (whole project in 3 months).
6. Why did you choose Mambo?
It's open source, it's quite easy to use and customize and community is great, giving us great support and feedback.
7. What are the Mambo applications
(components/modules/mambots/templates) you are using for your site? Components:
8. What integrations if any, have you made with Mambo?
9. How long did it take for you to implement Mambo?
3 months, July thru September 2004.
10. What benefits have you gained from using Mambo?