DSC – Dresdner Sportclub 1898 e.V.
About the customer
More than 4,800 athletes, 11 sports sections, over 300 volunteer coaches, countless dedicated parents and volunteers, 20 different sports facilities in and around Dresden – DSC 1898, the Dresden Sports Club, is a regional institution known to everyone who has anything to do with sport. For over 125 years, children, young people and adults have been training here, ranging from competitive sport to fitness activities for older people.
About the project
As part of the website relaunch for Dresdner Sportclub 1898 e.V., a new UX/UI concept was developed and implemented on Neos CMS between 2023 and 2024. The site features a multi-level mega-menu for intuitive navigation, plus a role-based permission system built on the Sandstorm Neos ACL package, giving editors access only to their relevant areas. Dedicated event modules and automated, collection-based photo galleries round out the content management. Built with Neos, TypeScript and SASS, the result serves both editors across the club's 11 departments and external visitors, including members and prospective members.
How Neos made the difference
Efficient integration and event management with Neos: During the technical implementation of the club’s website using Neos CMS, we faced several specific challenges. A key priority was the integration of the club’s various departments, each of which wanted to consolidate their own events and news on the homepage. This required careful planning and implementation.
The website also features various events modules that enable both competition timetables and other events to be managed and displayed. This functionality is particularly important for organisation and communication within the club.
Intuitive navigation and flexible rights management: Another distinctive feature of the website is the extensive mega-menu, which comprises numerous levels and enables intuitive navigation through the site’s extensive content. We have also introduced media galleries organised as ‘Collections’. This means that all images within a Collection are automatically displayed in an image gallery, which significantly simplifies the maintenance and management of media content.
Given the large number of people editing content on the website, it was essential to implement a flexible rights management system. To this end, we used the Sandstorm Neos ACL Package, which allows us to define dynamic roles and permissions for numerous editors. This ensures that every user has access to the necessary functions and content in line with their responsibilities and tasks, whilst at the same time maintaining the security of the website.
The technical implementation using Neos CMS has thus created a robust and user-friendly platform that meets the association’s specific requirements and enables effective content management.
„We are extremely satisfied with the support we received from Sandstorm during the relaunch of our website. They provided us with expert advice and consistently thought outside the box to deliver a sustainable and professional solution. Furthermore, it was always clear that they were just as keen on the success of our relaunch as we were. Communication with the team was always pleasant, reliable and focused on achieving results. We can wholeheartedly recommend Sandstorm and look forward to continuing our successful collaboration.“Grit Karchow,
volunteer project manager at the DSC
Independent content areas
Editors with role-based access rights
About the agency
Sandstorm is a software agency based in Dresden with a team of 35, specialising in bespoke software, apps and websites. For us, sustainability means resource-conscious, durable and repairable software without customer lock-in thanks to open source, developed with accessibility, user autonomy and security in mind. One of our particular strengths lies in the open-source CMS Neos, to which several Sandstormies contribute (Neos Community Award 2026). We were awarded the Saxon Digital Prize 2022 and were finalists for the German Sustainability Prize 2025. Our clients include 1&1, WeTell, Solarwatt and TU Dortmund.
