NITSAN holds over 10+ years of expertise within TYPO3 project development. We have learned and explored numerous tools that make us an effective and profitable TYPO3 agency. These tools assistance us for good team collaboration, sustain industry principles, better work quality, productive work, increment deals, enhance venture administration, fruitful results and so on..
Are you interested to know which tools and techniques does a TYPO3 Agency use?
Then you are at right place :)
For all the budding entrepreneurs reading this post, we have compiled a list of free web-based applications for you that will facilitate you in efficiently managing your daily operations and successfully accomplish long-term goals that you’ve set for your soon-to-be business empires.
If you are a growing company and you have a growth-driven team, vision and dedication to achieve your business goals, all you need a powerful set of right and integrated tools to leverage your business.
So here, we would love to share all the tools and techniques which would serve you and your organization by easing out your work because it's about bliss of clients and employees.
Here we've listed down the tools and technologies for :
- General tools for entire team
- Tools for project management
- Tools for TYPO3 developer team
- Tools for QA and Testing team
- Tools for Sales and marketers
- Tools for HR team
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General tools for entire team
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Email Service | #1 Google Inbox |
During initialization of our TYPO3 agency, We have tried to use local email clients (eg., Outlook for Windows with self hosting emails), But immediately we realized it's not that effective and long-term solution as your old emails may get lost with new device, accessing to cross-platforms etc., We choose Google Professional Gsuite with Google Inbox for the Emails. https://gsuite.google.com/ |
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Password Manager | #2 LastPass |
To store and retrieve sensitive information like passwords, pins and private info. on the fly is very time consuming process. By inspiring TYPO3 GmbH approach, We use LastPass and that's a really cool tool for managing and accessing the password from anywhere. |
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Document Manager | #3 Google Docs |
It’s 2018, Your documents should be accessible from anywhere like Laptop, Tablet, Mobile. |
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Meetings | #4 Google Calendar |
For any kind of internal or client’s meeting, we always use Google Calendar for the invitation and clear the agenda. One more thing, We always maintain MOM (Minute of Meeting) for each meetings. |
For Project Management
In IT Industry, Project management is one of the crucial task,where the success of project highly depends on how to achieve the best quality work with achieved goals in time. That’s why, We always stay updated with project management tools and techniques like PMS tool, Agile project methodology, custom Intranet web application, Slack etc. for fruitful results.
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Project Management System | #5 Activecollab |
For smooth execution of projects, we use Activecollab which help to manage projects, arrange resources, detailed report, etc., |
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#6 Intranet
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Custom Developed by NITSAN Technologies |
Also, We have developed one custom intranet application according to organization’s crucial needs for eg., Maintain daily to-do, reports for projects and resources, etc., |
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Communication | #7 Slack |
Slack is one of the most popular tool, We use it for our internal communication. Among its features are included on-desktop notifications, drag-and-drop files, video calls, group projects, integrations with Box, Google Docs, and Dropbox. |
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#8 Skype |
Mostly for the client’s communication, we use Slack for chat and calls. Skype is an IP telephony service provider that offers free calling between subscribers and low-cost calling to people who don't use the service. In addition to standard telephone calls, Skype enables file transfers, texting, video chat and videoconferencing. |
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Project Methodology | #9 Agile Scrum and Kanban |
Agile Scrum Agile Kanban |
For TYPO3 Team
Our TYPO3 technical team is always keen to adapt new technologies and standards. We have mainly two team 1. TYPO3 Template Integrators, 2. TYPO3 Extensions Developers.
For better productivity and quality of work, our team is always cares like best server infrastructure, follow TYPO3 standards, use latest Frontend technologies, Adapt version and standards of new TYPO3, use various browsers and design tools and so on.,
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#11 GIT Deployment System |
For our each small to very large TYPO3 projects, we always use GIT version control system for better productivity. |
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Server Infrastructure | #10 LAMP Server |
As Open source web agency, We use one of the most popular LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) software bundle. All the machines of Server and TYPO3 Developers has been configured with this environment. |
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#12 Hardware
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We have invested high-level configuration for the hardware of developers and testers for better quality like 8 GB Ram, Large size monitor etc., |
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#13 Network
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To provide speedy and secure work to the customer, NITSAN have settled high-level internal infrastructure like Server-client setup, Configured linux server, Firewall, etc., |
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TYPO3 Developers | #14 TYPO3 Version |
Although, it does not require to mention that we always use TYPO3 LTS for new projects. But of course, some time depends on project’s needs we also setup with future LTS version eg., Few projects we have already started to develop with TYPO3 9 LTS. |
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#15 PHPStorm |
PHPStorm is highly recommend IDE for TYPO3 project’s development. |
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#16 MySQL Workbench |
Forget old-school phpMyAdmin, TYPO3 Developer should use MySQL Workbench which is a unified visual tool for database architects, developers, and DBAs. |
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#17 TYPO3 Code Standards |
The most important is, Our TYPO3 team always develop and maintain project only with officially provided TYPO3 Documentation. Quick Highlights
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#18 Debugging
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Debugging is one of the crucial stuff for the technical team, so we always use different techniques lile; |
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TYPO3 Integrators |
#19 EXT:site_default
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Custom Developed by NITSAN Technologies |
TYPO3 template integration can be done in various ways, we have developed standard TYPO3 extension for the same. Good thing is that, We only use TYPO3 core for the backend layout, frontend templates, content elements etc., |
#20 Mobile-First Responsive Design
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Accordingly research more then 55% are mobile users for the website access. To achieve best result for the mobile, we are doing website development with current industry standard mobile-first responsive design. |
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#21 Bootstrap |
Bootstrap is one of the most popular CSS Framework which is use in frontend development for the better quality and standard work. |
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#22 jQuery |
jQuery is widely used JavaScript framework, One of the biggest advantages of jQuery is number of available Plugins. |
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#23 SASS |
A CSS preprocessor is a scripting language that extends CSS by allowing developers to write code in one language and then compile it into CSS. Sass is perhaps the most popular preprocessor around the globe. |
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#24 Nodejs / Gulp |
Gulpjs automate and enhance your workflow, It’s very quick and powerful framework to compile, merge and compress CSS and JS files. |
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Browser Tools | #25 Pixel Perfect |
Pixel perfect website is one of our expertise for each TYPO3 project, Of course that’s why the customers of NITSAN are so happy. To make sure about it, We have added this tool in our checklist. |
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#26 Font Finder |
This plugin extracts CSS information of any element on the page. It provides important details like font-family, font-size, font-weight, color, etc with just one click on element. It also provides other element details like type, id, class, etc. |
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#27 Color Picker |
An eye-dropper & color-picker tool that allows you to select color values from webpages. |
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#28 MeasureIt |
MeasureIt can measure the width and height of any element on web page using the ruler in pixels. |
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#29 Firebug |
Firebug is favourite tool for the web developers to quickly inspect and debug. |
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Design Tools | #30 Sketch |
Nowadays, Sketch is popular design tool to make the design because design agencies feel more useful tool from ideas to the final design. You should have hands on knowledge to make your customer’s project from Sketch to HTML/CSS template integration. |
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#31 Zeplin |
It’s all about the details. Handoff designs and style guides with accurate specs, assets, code snippets—automatically. |
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#32 Adobe Photoshop |
Adobe’s different tools are widely used as graphics design at initial stage of website development. Our team have good enough knowledge to work with any format, as we can not say to client that, ‘we only know the PSD to HTML, so please provide us only PSD file’ ;) |
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#33 Adobe Indesign |
Adobe InDesign CS6 is a page-layout software that takes print publishing and page design beyond current boundaries. InDesign is a desktop publishing program that incorporates illustration capabilities into its interface. It also allows for cross platform interaction with Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat. |
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#34 Adobe Illustrator |
Adobe Illustrator is graphic-driven software used primarily for creating vector graphics. Developed alongside with Adobe Photoshop as a companion product, Adobe illustrator is used for creating logos, graphics, cartoons and fonts for the photo-realistic layouts of Adobe Photoshop. |
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#35 Adobe XD |
Adobe has put its legendary graphic design know-how into the UX space with the all-new Adobe Experience Design – better known as Adobe XD.Many Creative Cloud users have probably done UX design in other applications like Illustrator or even Photoshop. Well, Adobe XD is here as a purpose-built tool for UX design. |
For QA Testing Team
NITSAN have one motto to provide best quality of the project, That’s why, We have dedicated QC/QA Testing team to make sure the quality of the project, before the project delivered to the client. All the projects has been passed with different testing scenario as follows:
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Cross-Platform Testing (browsers and devices)
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UI/UX Design Testing (eg., PX Perfect)
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Usability Testing (for backend)
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Functionality Testing (for custom extensions)
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Adaptability Testing
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Unit Testing (for the extensions)
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SEO and SEM Testing
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Speed and Performance Testing
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Cross-Platform Compatibility |
#36 Operating System
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Cross-Platform Compatibility |
#37 Browsers
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Latest and second last browsers compatibilities.
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Cross-Devices Compatibility |
#38 Devices
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Browser Plugins | #39 FontFinder |
This plugin extracts CSS information of any element on the page. It provides important details like font-family, font-size, font-weight, color, etc with just one click on element. It also provides other element details like type, id, class, etc. |
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#40 WhatFont |
This plugin is also used to verify CSS details of any element on page. Main advantage of this plugin is that you can compare CSS of multiple elements. Additionally, it shows font-family of text just by hovering mouse over the text. |
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#41 PageRuler |
Page Ruler lets your draw out a ruler to any page and displays the width, height and position of it. It helps to identify relative positions of elements in web page. |
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#42 PerfectPixel |
PerfectPixel allows developers to put a semi-transparent image overlay over the top of the developed HTML and perform pixel perfect comparison between them. |
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#43 AMP Validator |
The AMP Validator will check the current page to see if it is an AMP page and then run it through the AMP validator and report if the page passes (green) or fails (red) via the extension icon. It will also list Warnings/errors of AMP page when you click on Extension icon. |
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#44 Colorpicker |
This plugin is very useful to pick color from any point in your browser. It can be done by just clicking on point and color code will be displayed on the screen. Color code gets updated as mouse pointer roams the browser window. Additionally, color code gets copied as well. |
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#45 Emmet Re:view |
Emmet Re:View displays your responsive web-page in a number of views side-by-side so you can quickly test how web-page looks at different resolutions and devices. All views are fully synchronized: scroll, fill-in form fields, click, hover and drag elements in one view and get instant feedback in all others. |
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Bug Tracking | #46 Google Sheet |
For the small and quick project, we prefer to use Google sheet for the quick communication. QA team can report bugs/issues to design and development with quick actions of status and comments. |
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#47 Intranet BTS
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For bigger project, we have developed special tool call BTS - Bug Tracking System with collaboration with ActiveCollab. |
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Online Tools used for QA | #48 W3C Validation |
This validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc. |
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#49 Blisk |
Blisk is a developer-oriented browser which allows developers to test webpage in Desktop & responsive view quickly. |
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#50 RecordIt |
RecordIt is very useful tool to record screen. User can define the screen area to record and it quickly uploads video to its server. Additionally it provides link to share that video. This is very helpful while testing to record specific scenario or steps. |
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#51 Lightshot |
This tool is used to capture screenshots. It allows to annotate the screenshot to highlight important portion of the screen. It allows to save image in your computer. Additionally, you can upload the image to its server and can get link to share the screenshot. |
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Automation |
#52 Automation
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Many time, Our QA testing team write “selenium script” for automation. Eg., Imagine your customer’s site have thousands of pages, you want to make dynamic design testing or trying to find-out 404 pages. In such cases, selenium script will help us to make our life easier. |
Speed and Performance Optimization | #53 Page Speed Insights |
PageSpeed Insights reports on the real-world performance of a page for mobile and desktop devices and provides suggestions on how that page may be improved. |
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#54 GTMetrix |
GTmetrix gives you insight on how well your site loads and provides actionable recommendations on how to optimize it. |
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#55 Pingdom |
Pingdom is very helpful in testing the load time of the page, analyzing it and finding bottlenecks. |
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SEO Compliance | #56 Screaming Frog |
The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a website crawler, that allows you to crawl websites’ URLs and fetch key onsite elements to analyze onsite SEO. |
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#57 HEADMasterSEO |
HEADMasterSEO is a bulk URL checker tool that allows you to check URL Response code, Response time, 301 & 302 redirects and many other SEO related tasks. |
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#58 SEOSitecheckup |
It is a SEO tool which provides results about Common SEO issues, Speed Optimization, Server & Security, Mobile Usability & Advanced SEO Checks. |
For Sales and Marketers
The right tools can mean the difference between success and failure. Not only will they make your life easier, but they have the power to make your sales and marketing teams work smarter, not harder. Here we round-up some of the best marketing automation, event management and prospecting tools every marketer needs to know.
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Business Models |
#60 Request For Proposal (RFP)
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For the fixed cost project, we always prepare RFP document for our customers which includes scope of the project, milestones and tasks, queries and confirmations, estimation, timeline etc., |
#61 Service Level Agreement (SLA)
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Website development is not one time shot, support and maintenance is essential after Go-live. We offer SLA to our customers to make sure their website is running well so they can sleep well eg., Urgent support, monitoring, security checkup, TYPO3 health report, Monthly activity report etc., NITSAN team have completed 98% successful SLA contract. |
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#62 Hire Dedicated Resource / Team
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We provide dedicated developers as well as team. For the long-term projects, we always recommend to hire our resources to make it smoothly execute the projects. |
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#63 Time and Material Package
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NITSAN provide hourly based time and material package, so our customer have flexibility to assign any change request, bug fixing, new features, etc., to their any sites. Note: |
For HR Team
Finding HR software that meets your company’s individual needs is tricky – options are abundant and each software has its merits. To aid your search, we assembled a few promising tools for some of the most important HR techniques, like recruiting, performance management, employee training and employee engagement.
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Intranet |
# 64 NITSAN Intranet
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Custom Developed by NITSAN Technologies www.nitsan.in |
We have custom developed our own Intranet software with rich features like :
Our HRM tool keeps all work related information in one place. Anchoring insights about your workforce gives your business favorable position to realize what necessities to change in light of inside and outside conditions.NITSAN Intranet is basic and simple to learn and guarantees almost no downtime is taken from workers being profitable. You have recorded data about your workers readily available to settle on key choices. If you're looking for such HRM please feel free to directly connect with us at info(at)nitsan.in |
KRA |
# 65 NITSAN KRA
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Custom Developed by NITSAN Technologies www.nitsan.in |
Performance management is not just employee appraisals anymore. We will help you modernize Employee Performance Management Key features of our KRA software are :
If you're looking for such HRM please feel free to directly connect with us at info(at)nitsan.in |
Billing | # 66 ZOHO Invoice |
Zoho Invoice is ideal accounting software for sole proprietorships and small to large businesses. It contains many features such like Invoicing, estimates , contacts, payments, expenses, projects and timesheets, templates , automation,client portal, reports, user and roles items.Each feature listed above contains further sub-features. |
We hope all the above tools and techniques would be helpful to you too. If you found the above information useful then please like it and share it with your TYPO3 Developers, QA Testers, Project Managers and Marketers to increase their productivity too.
One more thing, by the time, NITSAN team always ready to keep stay update and take the challenges to accept new things. Do you have any good suggestions? If yes, Please let us know with below comment box, We would love to know about it.
Happy Productive Work :)
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