Custom Web Design for Manufacturers

5000+ Products = Custom Web Design for Manufacturers

Manufacturer Websites

Are you a local GTA manufacturer looking for a website solution to manage your large on-line product inventory? Then consider our solution for Custom Web Design for Manufacturers…

MySQL: The Right Database Solution for Manufacturing

Theme-based websites (Drupal, Joolma and WordPress) are handy for retail and small business websites but don’t work well with marketing / products managers that use Microsoft Access or Excel to handle extensive product inventories (5,000+ products). Some products have so many fields! We commonly convert client spreadsheets with 75 columns or more (A-Z, AA-AZ, BA-BZ, CA-CZ, etc.) into functional and easy to navigate MySQL databases. That’s why 17 Designs offers custom web design for manufacturers.

MySQL UTF-8 Format Accomodates Trademarks

What’s nice about MySQL is it has the flexibility to handle large, text-based fields that can contain virtually unlimited HTML content. With UTF-8 format, fields can also contain trademarks (™), registered symbols (®), copyrights (©), international characters (àáâãçèéê) and other unique symbols.

Relational Databases

For products with several images, a relational photo database can be established containing pertinent photo information, ie. captions, colour / finish swatches, renderings, lightbox / popup / zoom-in details and SEO information.

MySQL is ideally suited for products that are organized in a hierarchical structure addressing such requirements as product industry and material type.

MySQL product tables are also easy to import back into Microsoft Excel via CSV generated files that way reference to spreadsheets can still be maintained.

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Secure Back-End User Interfaces

Which Hosting Solution is Right?

Dedicated Server

For large manufacturers we always recommend using a dedicated server. Dedicated servers allow for increased security over shared servers and generally offer faster hosting. More importantly, a dedicated server allows for creation of a publically-accessible website and an encrypted, firewall-protected back-end subdomain. What better way to manage your website than behind a firewall!

Shared Hosting Back-End

Can’t afford a dedicated server or need to perform a risk assessment before increasing your hosting costs? We offer product management solutions that work and are secure even within a shared hosting environment, ie. www.dahlvalve.com. By using multiple security keys, placebo characters and random elements, back-end modules can achieve enhanced security and independent control of your product inventory.

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Custom Form Design

How To Tackle Form Design?

Submission Forms

HTML5, PHP and jQuery make Product Submission Forms easy! Through real-time access to your extension product database one can instantly generate product indices to make website navigation seamless to your customers. Custom inputs can be created to correspond to your extensive product requirements. GUI interfaces allow for text input so that customers / staff don’t have to understand HTML.

Custom Requirements?

We often meet manufacturers that have custom requirements that cannot be conveyed or articulated with just one meeting. Some concepts are so unique to a particular industry that solutions may take a month or more to code / develop. This is not unusual and it is where 17 Designs excels. We welcome challenges and difficult tasks. The more complicated your requirements the better!

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Web Design Fundamentals

Companies choose 17 Designs because we offer timely in-house:

Corporate Website Design
Custom Web Design for Manufacturers
Open Source Web Development
Website Maintenance
Website Graphics
Corporate Website CMS Design
Corporate Website Marketing
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Social Media Strategies / Updates

Structured Coding Practices

Our coding strategies are highly structured and thoroughly scrutinized with each web page update. We logically prepare our code to be:

Formal by Design
Modular
Scalable
Well Organized

HTML5 Website Design

HTML5

Take advantage of the new semantic markup of HTML5 website design, including self-validating web forms your users will love, tailor-made CSS3 web page formatting (such as gradients, transparencies, curved radii and drop shadows) and @font-face advanced type support. 17 Designs has embraced the latest generation of HTML5 web development ensuring an ideal user experience and pixel perfect web authoring aimed at modern browsers.

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Going mobile? Using the latest jQuery framework, HTML5 and CSS3, 17 Designs can program a mobile application that utilizes adaptive fluid grid design to fit any smart phone.

What about a smart phone’s orientation? We’ve got that covered. jQuery framework adapts to fits the horizontal or vertical browser width of any smart phone. Do you also need database support? No problem. We can link your mobile app to an on-line product catalogue / database retrieving product information in real time.

Custom WordPress Theme Development

Don’t settle for an unoriginal WordPress Theme used by thousands on the planet. We can design a custom WordPress Theme programmed to fit your brand identity and unique business requirements.

Our original WordPress Themes now use adaptable technology allowing the text, imagery and navigation to resize / scale to fit any device. This makes for a great user experience and allows your customers to view your website on their smart phone, tablet, notebook or desktop.

jQuery Banners

Stunning and Provide Added SEO Benefit

Need to add some pizzazz to your corporate website? Consider adding a jQuery Animated Banner with the following functionality:

Responsive Banners (reacting to finger swipes on mobile devices and mouse movement on computers)
Parallax Content Sliders (adding layered movement to your banners – see example above)
Content Cycles and Easing
Twitter Feeds

Web Design Related Services

SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION (SEO)

Through efficient design and coding practices, by making code error free and browser compliant, many of our websites achieve naturally high organic ranking on numerous search engines. Other factors also come into play including naming conventions, page descriptions, meta information, .htaccess browser redirection, keyword management and various tags.

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WEB HOSTING

17 Designs believes in focusing on what we do best, web design. As such, we will not put a mark-up on another company’s hosting services. If you are looking for the very best in hosting services with a company that is as customer focused as we are, we highly recommend Sumill Computer Solutions.

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TESTIMONIALS

I have only been with Norm at 17 Designs for a few months, but I am so happy to say that he has been completely on top of my website needs and always very quickly. Norm is very quick and efficient, even though my website needs aren't huge, he takes care of things in a very prompt, efficient way. I can't say how much it means to finally have someone reliable and I don't have to question anything. Thanks Norm!!

Cara L. Parker
www.parkerright.ca
21 Brock St E, Unit 2 Tillsonburg, ON

Parker Right Driving Academy, Tillsonburg

Our U.S. sales guys just completed a show in Arizona. Besides the heat, all the comments they heard were either about our great inventory or customer service but also how great our website is! Very well liked. I believe I mentioned similar comments about 2 years ago but wanted you to know. We can hang our hat on it.

Mike Rennie, Adaptall General Manager – How great our website is!www.adaptall.com

Congratulations to 17 Designs on their 20 years in business, I am proud of their accomplishments! Superfitness was 17 Designs’ first client in 1998, the first project was the design and booking of the Billboard located in High Park. Because of their creativity and professionalism, we continued to work with them for many years. In 2000 we opened Christine’s Fitness and 17 Designs was invited to created the branding for the new gym with a full range of marketing collaterals such as advertisements, mailers, vehicle decaling, signage, website and testimonial videos. Thank you 17 Designs for their dedication to our success!

Christine Steiger, CEO and Founder of Christine’s Fitness

We have worked with 17 Designs for more than 14 years on a range of design concepts, publications, advertising campaigns and website design and have found their service to be creative, timely and accurate. Their input and suggestions have helped us develop and enhance our marketing material on a range of projects, and to a high standard of production.

Manny Mendoza, Marketing Manager – Bondfield Construction Company Limited

Since 2006, 17 Designs has been a creative source for many exciting projects from our Corporate Identity and marketing collaterals, to the most recent venture -- the conceptualization and production of the “360 ̊ Perspective” Coffee Table book, a commemorative piece of art that journals the history of the Perspective Condominiums built by our company and brought to life into this book by the 17 Designs talented team and Eniko Campbell, the author. 17 Designs’ Creative Director and Artist, Stella Jurgen created a series of paintings, the “Natural Perspective” collection that was commissioned to adorn the walls of the public spaces and the creation of the elegant sculptural stainless steel signage that completes the entrances of the condominium towers. We trust 17 Designs’ talented team with their expertise and we look forward to our next project.

Ian Pianosi, President – Pianosi Development Corporationwww.pianosi.com