Manufacturing Website Design for Job Shops.
Manufacturing website design for machine and fab shops. Built for the buyer who checks you first.
CNC machining · Fabrication
Prototype to production, parts up to 40 in.
Equipment
Trusted by Organizations You Know
What a buyer checks before sending you a drawing.
Shop owners say it plainly: work still comes from footwork and referrals. One put it as “the website backs up the footwork.” Before a new buyer sends a print, somebody in purchasing or engineering looks you up, and these eight things decide whether the drawing comes to you.
73%
of B2B buyers look at a supplier’s website when deciding whether to send a request for information.
Thomas buyer survey
- 1
A street address
No address reads like a broker who sends the work overseas.
FAILA city name, or nothing
PASSAddress, map and hours in the header and footer
- 2
Photos of your floor and crew
Proves the machines exist and somebody runs them.
FAILStock photos, or none
PASSYour machines and your people, shot at your shop
- 3
Equipment with max part size
Engineers rule shops in or out by envelope before they call.
FAILBrand names with no numbers
PASSEach machine with its travels, swing, bed or tonnage
- 4
Materials and processes
Tells them whether you have cut their alloy before.
FAIL"We do it all"
PASSMaterials, finishes and secondary ops, listed
- 5
Certifications you hold
ISO 9001, AS9100, certified welders, ITAR registration. Some buyers can’t send a print without them.
FAILBuried on an About page
PASSOn the capabilities page, where the buyer is already looking
- 6
A way to send the drawing
Nobody wants three emails before they can attach a STEP file.
FAILA contact form with a message box
PASSA quote form that takes STEP, DXF and PDF
- 7
Email on your own domain
A Gmail address on a quote makes some buyers ask for cash up front.
PASS[email protected], set up with the site
- 8
A Google Maps listing
"Machine shop near me" shows the map before the website.
FAILUnclaimed, or the wrong hours
PASSGoogle Business Profile set up and linked to the site
352 of 601
Valley shops fail the check before a buyer reaches the equipment list. We looked up 601 machine, fab, welding and manufacturing shops on Google Maps across Fresno, Visalia, Modesto, Bakersfield and Merced in October 2026. 352 had no website, a dead one, or a dated one: no phone layout, no HTTPS, or a copyright year of 2023 or older.
Which job are you hiring the website to do?
If nine of ten jobs come from customers who already know you, you need the first one, and anyone selling you the second is selling you capacity you won’t run.
A capabilities site
Your work comes from referrals and footwork. The site has to back it up.
- OP 10A call or a shop visit. The machines, the materials, and the work you want more of.
- OP 20Photos of your floor, your crew and the parts you are allowed to show.
- OP 30Home, capabilities, equipment list, and contact with your address and map.
- OP 40Launch. Email on your own domain and your Maps listing linked.
An RFQ site
You want drawings from buyers who have never heard of you.
- OP 10Everything in Job 01.
- OP 20A page for each process: CNC machining, fabrication, welding, sheet metal, whatever you sell.
- OP 30A quote form that takes the file, asks the questions you ask on the phone, and shows your minimum.
- OP 40A careers page set up for Google’s job results, plus tracking on every call and form.
A quote form that asks what you’d ask on the phone.
The complaint about shop websites is the email that says “how much to make a part?” with no drawing attached. A form that asks for nothing gets exactly that.
- It takes the drawing: STEP, DXF, PDF, or a photo of a sketch
- It asks quantity, material and need-by date, so you can price it
- Your minimum order is printed on it, before they hit send
- Requests land in their own inbox, away from your supplier email
Request a quote
Most quotes go out within two business days.
Drop your drawing here
STEP, IGES, DXF, DWG or PDF
Quantity
Material
Need it by
Jobs
Welder / Fabricator
Your Shop · Fresno, CA
Full-timevia yourshop.com
MIG Welder, 2nd shift
Staffing agency · Fresno, CA
3 days ago · via a job board
Welder Fabricator I
Manufacturer · Selma, CA
1 week ago · via a job board
Illustration. Google decides what shows in its job results.
The welders you need are searching right now.
In the Fresno area, “welder jobs fresno” gets about 590 Google searches a month, nearly twice what “machine shop near me” gets. Most of those people land on a job board and apply to whoever paid for the top spot.
A careers page marked up with Google’s job posting format can show your opening in Google’s job results, with the application coming to you instead of a job board. It’s part of the RFQ site.
What your kind of shop needs on the page.
CNC machine shops
Envelope, tolerances, materials, prototype or production
A machine list with travels and spindle specs, the tolerance you hold day to day, and quantities you like running
Fabrication and welding
Structural or custom, certified welders, shop or field work
Project photos by type, your welding certifications, and the area your field truck covers
Sheet metal and laser
Thickness by material, bed size, bending capacity
A capacity chart a buyer can read in ten seconds, plus finishes and hardware
Manufacturers with a product
Specs, where to buy it, drawings to design around
A page per product with spec sheets and CAD downloads, and a dealer or distributor finder
Ag equipment and repair
Who answers during harvest, how far you travel
A service-area map and the after-hours number up top from August through October
Industrial and technical sites we built.
Industrial materials & piping, Fresno
Balanced Co.
Website for a Fresno industrial contractor: piping, compressed air systems and construction materials, with a page for each.
Equipment & restroom rentals, Fresno
Clean Enterprises
Website for a Fresno company that rents luxury restrooms and construction equipment and does commercial cleaning for events and job sites.
Tesla programming & diagnostics, Seattle
TCD Tech
Website for a Seattle shop that does Tesla programming, diagnostics and module work.
Who does the work
Victor Joaquin builds these himself.
The person on the first call is the person who writes the copy and builds the pages. If your shop is in the Valley, he would rather walk the floor and see the machines than send you a questionnaire.
He built Fresno State’s news platform, was invited by the U.S. Small Business Administration to speak on SEO and AI, and runs the defense technology startup DarkSigma outside of Boostify.
Final inspection is yours.
If you don’t love the design, we keep refining it until you do, or you don’t pay for the build. Same guarantee as every site we make.
"WOW! From day one, Victor made me feel like a close friend. He was quick to communicate and very reasonably priced. The work was done under a tight deadline and he delivered."
Heny Peter
Local Guide
"Victor exceeded my expectations. Some things are automated which is great, and the team was always on top of task reminders and updates. Solid work all around."
Frank J. Kaufmann
Business Owner
"I recently had the pleasure of working with Victor for help with my WordPress website. As an older clinician, I often struggle with technology, but Victor made the entire process seamless and stress-free."
David Johnson
Healthcare Professional
Manufacturing website questions shop owners ask.
How do engineers and buyers find a new machine shop?
Mostly the way they always have: referrals, a Google search, and Google Maps. What changed is the step after. Before they send a drawing to a shop they don’t know, they look it up, and Thomas found that 73% of B2B buyers look at a supplier’s website when deciding whether to send a request for information. The website doesn’t replace the footwork. It’s what the buyer checks after the footwork.
Should I list my equipment on the website?
Yes, with the numbers. Shop owners argue about this, and the ones who list their machines say buyers ask for the list anyway. Put each machine with its travels, swing, bed size or tonnage, so an engineer can tell in ten seconds whether the part fits. A list of brand names without sizes doesn’t answer the question they came with.
Won’t a website just bring tire kickers?
Some, if the form asks nothing. Print your minimum on the quote form and ask for the drawing, the quantity and the material, and the person shopping for a one-off bracket cheaper than the hardware store usually stops right there. The buyers with real work don’t mind the questions. They were going to answer them on the phone anyway.
Do I still need a website if I’m on Xometry?
Marketplaces fill slow weeks, and plenty of good shops use them. The trade-off is that the buyer stays the marketplace’s customer and the reorder goes back through the marketplace. Your own site is where the customers who reorder from you directly come from, at the price you quoted.
How much does a manufacturing website cost?
A capabilities site starts at $649 and takes two to three weeks. An RFQ site with a page per process, a quote form that takes files, and a careers page starts at $1,995 and takes three to five weeks. Hosting and the domain run about $20 to $30 a month, and you own the domain. Care is optional at $99 a month.
Do you only build for shops in the Central Valley?
No. The office is in Fresno and we build for shops anywhere in the US. If your shop is in the Valley, we would rather come see the floor than send you a questionnaire.
Not a shop? The web design page covers every other kind of business. Or call (559) 785-3834 and tell us what you make.
What usually comes next.
The site is what the buyer checks. These are what put you in front of buyers who haven’t heard of you yet.
When you want to show up for "machine shop near me"
Local SEO and Google Maps
The three-result map pack is where local buyers start. Getting into it is separate work from building the site.
When you need calls this month rather than next quarter
Local marketing and ads
Google Business Profile management, ads, reviews, and the tracking that tells you which one made the phone ring.
The day after launch, if you would rather run machines
Website care, from $99 a month
Updates, backups, uptime and form monitoring, and new machines added to the equipment list when you buy them.
When you need a customer portal, job tracking or a quoting tool
Custom software
Built around how your shop already runs.
References
Where the numbers and quotes on this page come from.
Ready to Grow Your Local Business?
Let's chat about how a new website can bring more customers through your door. No pressure, just a friendly conversation.
Free consultation • No obligation