AAT Alber Antriebstechnik

AAT Alber Antriebstechnik GmbH from Albstadt, Germany, makes push and brake aids, add-on drives and stair climbers – for the medical and the industrial market. Its guiding idea is “to help people”: stair climbers such as the s-max take wheelchairs safely over steps, drives such as SERVO and SOLO support people who propel their own wheelchair, and the V-MAX models take the strain off companions when pushing and braking.

Plenty of people come to aat-online.de looking for answers: those who need a mobility aid, specialist medical retailers – AAT works with more than 1,500 partners across Germany –, doctors, job seekers. All of them should find what they need quickly, in German and in English. And behind it all, the technology needs someone who reliably looks after it.

Our work together began in March 2018. At the time, aat-online.de ran on Joomla 3, with a page builder, a ready-made template and a whole set of extensions – from document management to forms and newsletters to search engine optimisation. First we cleaned up: tidied the database, removed extensions that were no longer needed, optimised speed, took care of SSL and supported AAT with the new legal notice and privacy policy.

After that, the technology was in our hands under a maintenance contract: monthly extension updates, twelve security and twelve display checks a year, weekly backups stored externally, uptime monitoring, a firewall, two server environment checks a year and monitoring in Google Webmaster Tools. For the content, a webmaster package came on top: a fixed number of hours each month.

After five years it was time for a relaunch. We offered it in March 2023, and the new website was not put on top of the old one but built from scratch: on a subdomain of its own, with Joomla 4 and YOOtheme Pro. The design is based on the YOOtheme template “Horizon”, adapted to AAT’s corporate design – the blue logo, clear type, plenty of white space and large everyday pictures.

We set up the sample pages that everything else follows: the home page, a product page, a general page such as the company history, the news overview and the enquiry form. And one rule was in the offer from the start: the site is set up without external resources, to be as GDPR-compliant as possible.

In December 2023 came the home stretch: corrections and advice on the new site, an image optimisation service, troubleshooting – and a problem with the import into the DOCman document manager, which we fixed. On 15 December 2023 the new aat-online.de went live. Five days later followed a plugin we developed for the translations of the documents in DOCman.

We checked that rule. On 9 October 2026 we measured the home page, on desktop and on a phone: on the first visit, before any consent, it connects to no third-party server at all. Fonts, styles and scripts come from aat-online.de itself, and only a single cookie is set – from its own domain as well.

Measured on 9 October 2026 on aat-online.de/de/, home page, one run without cache – with the same result on desktop and phone.

A website for mobility aids has to be found – in search engines and on the site itself. In April 2024 we advised AAT on search engine optimisation. In October 2025 it was the site search’s turn: since then an extension also indexes the PDF documents, so Joomla’s search finds what is in them. The search shows its results with the same translations that are stored for the documents.

Today aat-online.de leads from the product overview all the way to the finished mobility aid: product pages such as the one for the s-max explain features like the automatic brake function, the mobility aid guide describes step by step the way from advice through the prescription to delivery, and the dealer search finds a specialist medical retailer nearby.

From the first clean-up in 2018 through the relaunch in 2023 to PDF search in 2025: AAT and we have been working together for more than seven years. The website has changed in that time – new Joomla, new design, new features; today it runs on Joomla 5. The partner for the technology has stayed the same.

And on a phone? The menu folds away, and the motto stays in view: “Wir fördern Mobilität und Lebensqualität” – we promote mobility and quality of life.