Livit AG
An excellent website for an excellent company
The Project at a Glance
Livit AG, a Swiss company in real estate management, has successfully relaunched its corporate website and migrated it to Drupal 9.
The project involved consulting, conception, template development, SEO, and content integration. Over 350 subpages were successfully migrated and updated.
By introducing Drupal 9, challenges such as content management, search and filter functions, and backend flexibility were addressed. The new website is representative, user-friendly, and meets Livit AG's high standards as a digital innovator.
Client
Livit AG, Zurich
Project
Relaunch of the corporate website and introduction of Drupal 9
Project Duration
8 months & ongoing
Services
- Consulting
- Concept and Strategy
- Development of a Styleguide
- Template Development
- Implementation in Drupal 9
- SEO
- Content Integration
Technologies
- Drupal 9
- Wingsuit Library
- Docker
- Storybook
- AlpineJS
- TailwindCSS
- Platform.sh
Digital Pioneer in Swiss Real Estate Management: A Reputation That Obligates.
Livit AG, headquartered in Zurich with branches throughout Switzerland, is one of the leading Swiss service providers for Real Estate Management. With nearly 700 employees, it offers property owners and tenants innovative services from a single source.
A key focus is the online brokerage of residential and commercial properties. As a digital pioneer in its industry, Livit AG places great emphasis on an excellent web presence with particularly user-friendly applications.
A Lot of Content, Barely Any Search and Filter Options, and Far Too Little Flexibility.
By 2020, the corporate website had grown into a true content monster, not least due to multilingualism.
Especially the rental listings – the heart of the site – have reached a scope that urgently requires a more powerful and differentiated search function.
The constantly growing blog also requires a user-friendly filter function.
Moreover, the outdated Drupal 8 does not provide editors with the necessary flexibility in the backend to quickly input content and accurately create new pages.
Both the freshness and the appearance of the site suffer equally, which is why Livit decided on a complete relaunch.
More User-Friendliness in the Frontend, More Flexibility in the Backend, Multilingualism.
Livit desires a completely new corporate site based on Drupal 9.
All existing rental offers should be migrated, along with the content for around 350 subpages.
The rental listings and blog posts should be searchable and filterable in a differentiated manner in the future.
A layout builder should enable editors to quickly and independently create new pages and page types, adhering to the corporate design.
The site should perform equally well on all devices and be available in German, English, Italian, and French.
Livit needs ...
- a powerful, differentiated search function for the Real Estate Objects
- an automated import of new residential and commercial listings
- user-friendly filters for news and blog articles
- maximum design flexibility for creating new pages by in-house editors
- comprehensive responsiveness for optimal display on all devices
- content filling for around 350 pages
- implementation of the new corporate site in four language versions
We experience keytec's many years of experience and specialization in Drupal every day. Keytec answers all questions regarding the operation of our website professionally and with a lot of expertise.
Frictionless and Lossless Integration of Third-Party Services.
Even before contacting us, Livit had a new corporate design and screen designs developed by a graphic agency. The resources invested for this purpose should contribute to the new corporate website without any loss.
From the Workshop on Component Library and Interfaces.
First, we'll review and discuss the existing screen designs in a joint workshop with Livit, and make the necessary adjustments for responsive UI/UX and the design system.
Based on the new corporate design, we will create a corresponding component library and develop the new templates.
The component library – in conjunction with the user-friendly Drupal 9 backend and the newly implemented Layout Builder – empowers Livit editors to create new page types as flexibly as they are in line with the corporate design.
To ensure precise search results, we will expand the filtering options for blog posts and introduce separate searches for residential and commercial rental listings. We will transfer the old rental listings.
For new rental listings, we will integrate interfaces through which centrally managed listings are automatically imported several times a day.
Changes and further developments are planned proactively and implemented efficiently. We highly appreciate the straightforward collaboration.
From Webforms to Multilingualism to Content Management.
We further integrate Webforms and link it with Livit's Salesforce CRM system.
By incorporating a Translation Management Tool, we enable Livit to have content translated by a directly connected translation service provider, thereby reducing the complexity associated with a multilingual site.
Finally, we handle the content management for approximately 350 subpages: We transfer texts, images, and graphics, or create them from scratch.
We update filter taxonomies and information, create all translations, and develop forms, landing pages, and additional pages for Livit AG.
We also organize the hosting of all pages.
A Representative and High-Functional Website: User-Friendly and Fully Packed.
The new website goes online as planned and fully packed: with a new look, revised content, and numerous new features – for both users and editors.
While users benefit from more accurate search results for rental properties and quicker access to relevant content, the editors now have every opportunity to create new pages individually and precisely.
Previously labor-intensive processes such as incorporating rental offers or translations are now automated. This conserves resources and saves real money.
The new site is consistently optimized for search engines, performs flawlessly on every device, and fully lives up to Livit AG's status as a digital innovator.
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