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Konstanz region

TYPO3 Agency Konstanz

Konstanz sits directly on the Swiss border, and that shapes almost every project here: audiences on both sides, prices in two currencies, legal details that differ. Add the university, the university of applied sciences, and a tourism sector that thinks internationally.

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A market that does not stop at the border

Anyone based in Konstanz has customers on both sides. That is not a translation question but a structural one: prices, legal notices and sometimes the offering differ, even though the language stays the same.

TYPO3 offers two routes for that. A shared version with targeted departures, when little differs. Or a separate site per market, when the presence should stand on its own, with its own domain but the same installation and the same upkeep. What needs settling technically is set out under site configuration.

A university means many editorial teams

The university and the university of applied sciences bring a familiar constellation: many departments, distributed responsibilities, differing expectations of how current things should be. A central team cannot maintain that, and should not have to.

The answer lies in fine-grained permissions per area of the site, supplemented by a tailored editing interface. What nobody in an area should use does not belong in the list in the first place; that reduces questions more effectively than any manual. How it is configured is set out under TSconfig.

On top of that comes the accessibility obligation of publicly funded institutions, and it applies per language version. There is more under TYPO3 accessibility.

The distance, named honestly

After Freiburg, Konstanz is one of the furthest points in the area we cover. We do not gloss over it: around two hours of travel, planned meetings rather than spontaneous visits.

For the project work that is immaterial, because it runs remotely anyway. For expectations it matters, which is why it stands here rather than in the small print.

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Common questions

Part of our audience is in Switzerland. What does that mean for the website?

Above all that a straight translation is not enough, since the language is usually the same. What differs is the tone, the price information, the legal notices and sometimes the offering itself.

TYPO3 can represent that through separate language versions or separate sites. Which route fits depends on how far the content differs. With few departures, one version with conditional content is enough; for a market presence that stands on its own, a separate site is worth it.

We are a higher education institution. Do you know the requirements?

Yes. BITV 2.0 applies to publicly funded institutions, which technically means WCAG at level AA. That involves checkable things: contrast, keyboard operation, alternative texts, heading hierarchy, forms with associated labels.

The part often overlooked matters: on bilingual sites it applies per language version. An accessible German page says nothing about the English one.

Konstanz is a long way from Stuttgart. How does that work in practice?

Around two hours of travel, and we say so openly. For the daily work it makes no difference: development runs in Git, discussion over video calls, and every change is visible in advance on a separate environment.

For on-site meetings we plan deliberately and bundle them, a kick-off and the editorial training on the same day for instance. Anyone who needs weekly presence is better served by an agency on the lake.

A project on Lake Constance?

University, tourism or a market across the border: describe where you stand and we will tell you which structure will carry it.

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