Many web design agencies quote manufacturing businesses $5,000 – $15,000 or more for a basic small business website. As one of our clients recently shared, they received an absurd ballpark range of $12,000 – $21,000 from an agency for a starter site.

At MachiningPartner, we take a different approach focused on upfront transparency and reasonable pricing. Our starter websites for machine shops begin at just $1,500. We also offer an ultra-affordable compact machine shop website starts at only $749.

No matter your budget, our team of machinists will work with you to maximize value. We’ll have an honest discussion about your goals, specifications, and options to find the right solution. You’ll get our specialty expertise at a fair price-point, not just inflated agency bills.

While vendors like Thomasnet throw out five and six-figure quotes, we cut through the nonsense to deliver sites that actualize your digital presence. Let’s explore achieving your growth goals without absurd price tags or vague corporate jargon.

While your shop may be unique in many ways, the core essentials of the machining world are second nature to me after 20+ years in the industry. I intrinsically understand the priorities of a machine shop owner and the nuances of effectively communicating machining capabilities because I’ve lived it firsthand. So while I may not have worked with a business exactly identical to yours, you can trust that I know your pain points and goals like the back of my hand. My deep machinist experience allows me to translate that seamlessly into website designs and content tailored specifically for shops like yours.

Our website design process is simple and straightforward – we handle the heavy lifting so you can focus on your machining operations.

We get it – as a fellow machinist, you’d much rather be out on the shop floor dialing in your machining processes than worrying about website design details. And with over 20 years of hands-on CNC machining experience under our belts, you won’t have to explain the finer points of 4-axis machining vs trunnion tables to us either!

We speak your language fluently – from deburring to EDM, cut taps to form taps. You can share your capabilities and goals without getting lost in translation or having to clarify technical nuances.

That’s why we handle all the website heavy lifting and won’t bother you about insignificant details or misrepresent your services. Our team has operated in machine shops just like yours for decades.

So leave the website to us and focus your time where it matters most – fine-tuning your machines and streamlining production. We’ve been in your shoes and know where your priorities lie.

Here’s the gist of how it works:

First, we sit down together (virtually or in-person) to understand your business goals and discuss what content and functionality your ideal site needs. No need to think about technical specifications – just your vision.

Next, we handle turning that vision into a practical web framework optimized for how manufacturing buyers and prospects search online. We take care of wireframes, layouts, site architecture and behind the scenes based on best practices.

Then we populate the site with custom content optimized specifically for communicating your machining capabilities and expertise clearly to potential customers. Finally, we thoroughly test and refine the finished website before launch to ensure a flawless user experience.

The goal is keeping things simple on your end. Just share your vision and leave the web design intricacies to us. We know your time is best spent managing operations – not picking fonts and analyzing web metrics! You take care of your NC code and we take care of HTML.

Typically 4-8 weeks depending on scope. We provide a specific timeline estimate after discussing all aspects of your project and ensure timely delivery of an awesome final product.

We build all our websites on top of a flexible content management system (CMS) that makes it easy to edit and add content down the road.

Our preferred CMS is incredibly user-friendly while also being robust and secure behind the scenes. It’s the most widely used platform on the web.

Depending on the package, we provide full access and training on our CMS so you can make text and image changes yourself as your business evolves. For more complex updates, our team can handle them for a reasonable fee.

We want to empower you with a site that scales as your needs grow. With the right CMS foundation, you gain a powerful toolkit for keeping information fresh. We can also provide ongoing content marketing assistance to showcase your latest machining capabilities and successes.

Let us know if you have any particular goals around updating content over time. We’ll ensure you have the right solutions in place for maintaining an evergreen website that converts visitors into customers.

Yes, every website is fully responsive to adapt seamlessly to any device – phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops. Your site will impress users whether they are browsing on a 30′′ monitor or 3′′ mobile screen.

Definitely. We can integrate your YouTube videos, 3D part animations, shop tour footage, testimonials, and more seamlessly into the custom site to showcase your capabilities.

We make regular website content updates easy through our proprietary CMS platform. And we’re always available to discuss evolving your site as your shop grows and goals change.

Yes, hosting and professional email (yourname@yourcompany.com) are included. Depending on your web -design package you buy from us we proactively monitor uptime, speed, and security to keep your site performing optimally.

We don’t provide hosting services directly, but we’re happy to recommend robust hosting solutions tailored for industrial and manufacturing businesses.

Based on extensive experience, we suggest trusted enterprise-level hosting providers that offer:

• Maximum uptime, speed, and security for manufacturing sites.
• Scalable servers and architecture to support growth.
• Unlimited monthly data transfer and storage space.
• Seamless backups and SSL encryption.
• Premium email accounts for your domain to project professionalism.
• Excellent technical support.

We can advise on selecting an optimal hosting platform for your manufacturing website and business needs. Our goal is to ensure you have an industrial-strength hosting solution that delivers the performance, reliability and capabilities required for long-term success.

Please let us know if you need any hosting guidance or provider recommendations. We’re happy to share our expertise to help you choose the right solution.

We integrate Google Analytics to provide insights into traffic, top pages, conversions, referrers, location data and more key stats to measure performance. We’ll review metrics regularly with you.

Our focus is crafting high-converting sites, but we’re happy to discuss marketing services like search optimizations, content creation, linking strategies, and analytics to maximize visibility and conversions.

Through tailored content, seamless contact forms, strong calls-to-action, fast load times, mobile optimization, and designing the entire user experience to guide visitors into becoming sales leads. We focus on real results, not vanity metrics.

We know how to emphasize your specific machining processes, the right equipment and credentials, use of certain tooling, your quality certifications, and other domain expertise – doing so in a compelling way using the right language, visuals, and messaging that resonates with manufacturing buyers.