Livonia Website Design and Development

That concentration is the argument for it, not against. A shop with two or three customers is one resourcing decision away from a bad year, and being findable by the next three is the cheapest hedge available. Size the build to that reality rather than to a corporate showcase.

Differently. Not decoration — clarity, density and making specifications easy to compare. An engineer will forgive a plain page and will not forgive one that hides the tolerance table. Good design here looks like a well-made data sheet.

Yes, and it is the usual starting point. The work is normalising it — consistent attribute names, consistent units, a structure that supports filtering — and that effort is the foundation of everything else. We will tell you honestly how much of it there is before you commit.

Usually. Epicor, Plex, NetSuite, Dynamics, Global Shop, IQMS, or a system with one person left who understands it. Where it genuinely cannot be reached we will say so rather than sell an integration we cannot deliver.

Most industrial businesses here need a catalog and a strong quoting path rather than a checkout. Transactional commerce earns its place when you have consumable or standard-part revenue that is genuinely self-service.

A page per process with real parameters, rather than one services page listing everything. That structure is what makes you findable, and it is increasingly what lets an AI assistant name you when somebody asks who can run a job near a plant.

A catalog and quoting build is typically twelve to sixteen weeks, and product data is the variable that moves it most. We phase it so the public site can go live while longer integration work continues.

Scoped in phases with a budget against each. We are not the cheapest option and the work we get hired for is usually the work that goes wrong when it is done cheaply.

Most of what we look after, we did not build. We audit it first — what is installed, what is out of date, what has been edited on the server, what is at risk — and give you a plain assessment before anything is agreed.

Four business hours for a first reply, from a senior person. Emergencies are handled as emergencies.

No, it is the normal starting position and it is the project. We will tell you honestly how much work it is before you commit, because it is the single variable that moves a catalog build's timeline most. What we will not do is build a filtering system on data that cannot support it and let you find out later.

Yes — behind a login, with tiers mapped to the customer groups your ERP already maintains rather than a second set maintained by hand. The rule we apply is that pricing logic lives in one place, and that place is almost never the website.

Usually because they are scoping different projects and only one of them has looked at your data. On industrial builds the honest variable is product information — a catalog of four thousand normalised SKUs and a catalog of four thousand inconsistent ones are not the same job, and a quote produced without examining that is a guess. Ask anyone quoting you what they assumed about your data.

Where the product genuinely configures, yes — options, dependencies, live pricing and a drawing attached to the request. Where it does not, we will say so, because a configurator built on a product that actually needs a conversation produces confident wrong answers and an unhappy estimator.

By being the manufacturer and saying so with detail a distributor cannot match — full specification, engineering drawings, application guidance, tolerances, certifications and the questions only you can answer. Distributors win on breadth; you win on depth, and depth is what the technical searches actually reward.

Often, and it works when the split is explicit. We tend to own the site, the integrations and the technical search; they own the campaigns and the brand work. What fails is an unclear boundary where both sides assume the other is watching the numbers.

Routinely, and we expect to on industrial work. If your contracts or your customers constrain what can be shown publicly, raise it at the start — it changes what the proof sections can say, and we would rather design around it than walk it back later.

Yes, and we will point you at the ones closest to your situation rather than the prettiest ones. Where a client has agreed to it we will also connect you directly — a fifteen-minute call with somebody who has been through it is worth more than any case study we could write.