HiTHIUM - TYPO3 Award Nominee 2024
Meet HiTHIUM - A Leading Energy Storage Solutions Provider
HiTHIUM, a leading energy storage solutions provider in China, operates across multiple continents. As they continue to expand, the HiTHIUM team focuses on growing its presence in Europe, starting with Germany. Their main goal is to connect with local audiences by showcasing their expertise and solutions through a powerful, secure, and flexible content management system (CMS). TYPO3 was selected for its scalability, flexibility, and ability to deliver high-performance websites that align with HiTHIUM’s ambitious vision for expanding into the European market.
Problem Statement / Challenges
As the largest energy storage provider with plants in various regions, HiTHIUM requires a multilingual website to connect with local audiences from different continents. The website should reflect their strong expertise, feature a modern design, and have easy-to-understand navigations, showcasing their leadership in energy storage solutions.
- Connect with local audiences to reflect their websites by eliminating the language barrier
- Redesign Website
- Integrate Hithium CRM System to Manage client's data
- Develop with latest TYPO3 v13
- Adopt the latest UI/UX design to give the website a modern, fresh look
- Manage multiple languages, including regional and cultural variations
- Protect customer data privacy with GDPR standards and adopt a secure CMS
- Create a website that excels in high-end speed performance.
- Use WCAG 2 to access the website for everyone
From Concept to TYPO3 Award Nominee Website
The HiTHIUM website was initially built on WordPress, but there was a need for a multilingual website with a strong and secure CMS that could safeguard European user privacy to expand their business to the European market. To give the website a native touch and ensure robust security for its users, we redeveloped it from WordPress to TYPO3. Migrating from one CMS to another requires careful planning to adapt to European regulations and provide a native feel to the site. We chose TYPO3 as the core CMS due to its flexibility in content management and strong security standards.
While adopting TYPO3, we also ensured fast performance, adhered to SEO best practices, and implemented a modern UI/UX design. We are proud that this revolutionary HiTHIUM project has been nominated for the TYPO3 Awards 2024 in the Enterprise category, This milestone is a testament to our love and passion for TYPO3.
Fresh Look with Modern Designs
While migrating the website from one CMS to another, it also needed a redesign to make it feel more familiar to German users. Making the HiTHIUM website visually interactive was one of our key challenges. To address this, we implemented interactive content block elements to showcase HiTHIUM’s story to users.
- Developed Custom ns_theme_hithium for a fresh and native look
- TYPO3 base theme for better templating
- Integrated visual maps for showcasing plants and locations
- Added Interactive content elements & Sliders
Enhanced Security Standards
With a large European user base, safeguarding customer data is a top priority. TYPO3’s built-in GDPR compliance allows us to securely manage and store data, ensuring we meet all privacy standards.
- We implemented MFA, encryption, and regular security audits.
- Implemented GDPR Compliance with the HiTHIUM site
Improved speed and performance
To give the website the best performance, we took a multi-layered approach. This includes installing a powerful TYPO3 extension for caching static files, optimizing the code, dynamically optimizing images, and refining the database and server settings.
- 95+ Core web vitals score
- Implemented Site Kit by Google Extension
- 100+ SEO score
03+ Multilingual Content Support
HiTHIUM's primary goal was to connect with people in their native language. To meet this need, we implemented TYPO3’s multilingual capabilities, allowing all languages (English, Italian, and German) to be managed seamlessly in one place. This ensures smooth communication with users across different regions.
WCAG compliance
The HiTHIUM website is designed to be accessible to everyone, ensuring an inclusive user experience for all visitors. We follow WCAG standards for web accessibility to make sure the site is easy to use for people with different abilities. With achieving a 100% web accessibility score.
TYPO3 + HiTHIUM CRM System
As one of the largest energy storage solution providers, HiTHIUM needed a custom mechanism to generate and capture European leads on a central platform. We developed a unique solution by integrating HiTHIUM’s CRM System with TYPO3, enabling seamless lead generation and management. The custom lead generation extension we built significantly boosted lead capture and centralized their lead data management.
- Integrated HiTHIUM’s CRM system with TYPO3
- Developed Custom Lead Generation mechanism
- Ensured customer data is safeguarded with advanced GDPR security measures.
TYPO3 auto-deployment system
The client needed a CI/CD cloud infrastructure to streamline the deployment process for different environments, such as staging and production. To meet this need, we integrated GitLab CI/CD with the TYPO3 auto-deployment system, ensuring smooth and efficient deployments across multiple environments.
TYPO3 Support Contract (SLA)
To ensure consistent site performance and adherence to best practices, we have established an SLA with HiTHIUM, offering a 99.9% uptime guarantee for continuous availability.
- Dedicated Support for troubleshooting, content updates, and security.
- Regular monitoring of site performance and SEO.
- Keeping the site updated with the latest TYPO3 version.
