01 Starting point
A trade supplier for irrigation and water technology sells equipment that has to be explained: sprinkler systems, pipework, pumps, filters and controls. A website has to order that range and at the same time show which components belong to which application.
Sites of this kind typically grow over years. Product groups are added, data sheets, installation notes and application examples accumulate. Without a clean structure and a clear editing model the site loses its order, and maintenance comes to depend on individual people.
02 Solution
The basis is TYPO3. The page tree follows the logic of the range and its applications, not the department structure of the company. Content is built from a fixed set of reusable elements: product overviews, specification tables, download areas for data sheets, and contact and enquiry blocks.
Technically the site runs on PHP 8 and MariaDB. Images are delivered server-side in responsive variants, and caching and compression are part of the configuration rather than a later optimisation. Deployment and operation are containerised with Docker on Proxmox, on our own servers in Germany.
Planning, build and operation from one team. That includes the regular TYPO3 updates up to version 13, security patches and the arrangement of editing rights, so departments can maintain their own content without putting the overall structure at risk.
03 Result
The editorial team works with prepared elements instead of one-off layouts. New product groups and application pages appear without development effort, and the appearance stays consistent across all sections.
Day-to-day operation is covered: updates, backups and monitoring are part of the service, and the installation stays on a current TYPO3 release. Changes to the range or the navigation can be made step by step without rebuilding the site.