Region in view from Emmendingen

Region im Blick reports from its region – news, lifestyle, health, advice and business, plus the “Badisch Allerlei”. Over the years the old website on Joomla 3 had become complex: technically overloaded, hard to use and dependent on many additional extensions, for example for the classified ads.

The goal was a modern, low-maintenance site that is easy to use and stays clear even with thousands of articles.

We rebuilt the site on Joomla 4 and solved as much as possible with built-in tools: YOOtheme Pro with Dynamic Content for the magazine, Advanced Custom Fields and JL Content Fields Filter for fields and filters. The agreement was clear: whatever makes the system needlessly complicated is left out – ease of use always comes first.

The menu structure of the old site largely stayed, so readers find their way around at once. Underneath, we simplified categories, tags and content. Magazine articles have a template with title, subtitle and any number of sections of text, picture and caption.

Additional extensions became Joomla content the editors look after:

Events appear in date order and can be filtered by year, category and place. The newsletter and the job ads are gone; new is the section “Sport aus der Region”.

For the design we deliberately followed a ready-made YOOtheme design and adapted it to Region im Blick in colours and details. That kept the costs low and still brought a modern, responsive look.

After the relaunch we measured the new site:

Measured in 2022 after the relaunch with Google PageSpeed Insights and Seobility.

So that no readers were lost in the move, we redirected ten particularly important articles and checked the first 200 results on Google – wherever an address no longer matched, a redirect now leads to the right article. External content only loads after consent, and we created a new legal notice and privacy policy with the eRecht24 Premium agency package.

Region im Blick is still maintained on this foundation – with a steady flow of news from the region and now on the current YOOtheme Pro 5. The structure holds, exactly as intended.

An overloaded site has become a modern, fast magazine that is easy to maintain and can grow with its content.