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We rebuilt the site from the ground up. Not because the old one was broken, but because it had stopped doing its job.
What was not working
The old site had grown over five years. Every service, every new sector, every new reference got added on top. The result was a navigation with 27 menu items, three competing hero variants on the homepage, and a blog where nothing had happened for eighteen months. Anyone visiting for the first time had no idea after two minutes what we actually offered. Anyone who knew us could no longer find their favourite page.
The same pattern kept coming up in client conversations. “Your site is a bit confusing.” “I had no idea you did NIS2 as well.” “So what exactly are you responsible for?” That is not a design problem, it is a structural one. And structural problems do not get solved with new screenshots or a change of theme.
What has changed
Five service pillars instead of a long list. The old services page had 23 individual topics in alphabetical order. The new site groups them into five pillars: infrastructure, collaboration, development, security and AI. Each pillar has its own sub-topics (backup, monitoring, Microsoft 365, Copilot, NIS2 and so on), but the pillar itself is the entry level. That way visitors can tell in under ten seconds whether they are in the right place.
Regional pages instead of doorway pages. We do not have a national presence, and we do not pretend to. The new regional architecture has eight honest pages: Rhine-Main as head office, Tyrol as our focus region in Austria, and six further regions with a clear remote-first statement. Each page explains how working together from that region actually functions, what happens on site and what happens remotely, and which sector specifics we know. No copy-paste, no SEO theatre.
Remote-first as positioning. The biggest change in substance is how visible our working model now is. The new page at /arbeitsweise explains why we do 95 percent of our work remotely, and why that is usually cheaper and faster for clients than a local provider with travel fees. That is not the right answer for everyone. If you absolutely need somebody in the building, we are the wrong choice. We are transparent about that before the first conversation happens.
An FAQ layer on every page. Almost every pillar, sector, regional and partner page has an FAQ block with four to seven real questions we actually get asked. That is not schema.org theatre, it is an attempt to answer a prospective client’s ten most important follow-up questions on the page itself. If you still have questions after reading the FAQ, that is exactly what the intro call is for.
What is new technically
The site runs on Astro 6 with React islands for the interactive parts, Tailwind 4 and Biome for tooling. Content sits as Markdown directly in the Git repository, which gives us version history, branch reviews and traceable changes without an additional database. Images are reduced to the necessary minimum, fonts are self-hosted, and Lighthouse scores are consistently above 95.
The design is deliberately retro. Pixel icons, ChromeFrame boxes, SlashTables, overwritten accents. That is not an end in itself, it is a deliberate distance from the interchangeable stock-photo look that 80 percent of service provider websites use. If you want a feel for how we work, you should be able to see it too.
What the blog will do from now on
The old blog was half press releases (“CAVORT at CeBIT 2019”) and half copy-paste articles without a real point of view. We did not migrate the old content. The new blog will carry:
- Technical guides on topics we work with daily (Microsoft 365, NIS2, Copilot, remote setups, backup architectures)
- Short opinion pieces on sector developments (new EU directives, cloud pricing changes, tool recommendations)
- Case excerpts from anonymised client projects, where we learned something useful to others
We are not setting ourselves an editorial target of four posts a month. There is a post when there is something to say. No SEO content farming.
What comes next
The site is live, but not finished. Over the coming weeks we will:
- Build up references. The new site still has a placeholder reference entry. We are currently getting approvals from existing clients so we can publish three to five real case studies.
- Refine the sector pages. The eight vertical pages are solid, but some (trades, associations, education) can get more concrete.
- An English version. For clients in Switzerland and for international supply chains we are planning an English version from Q3.
- Editorial workflow. At the moment we maintain content directly in the repository. For non-technical contributors we are looking at Git-based CMS options that write Markdown commits from a browser interface - the choice is still open.
Who we are
In case you are new here: CAVORT IT Systems is the IT services arm of CAVORT Konzepte GmbH, based in Neu-Isenburg near Frankfurt. We support mid-sized companies, medical practices, law firms, agencies and associations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. We are not a systems integrator in the classic sense, but not a pure consultancy either. We build, we operate, we train, and we hold back where we are not the best option.
There is more about us on the about page. Or you can arrange a no-obligation intro call straight away.
Thanks for looking around the new site.