HMK automation architects
Bespoke device responsive website design and development
for the largest Independent Motion Control Systems provider in the UK.
The Brief
Create a website that showcases not just the 1000's of products HMK offer, but also highlights how they are different in the way they deliver their Products, and Expertise to deliver Successful solutions.
All packaged within a beautiful, simplistic design to show of HMK's industry leading products, consultancy and support.
Website Solution using Duo's Fast and Secure Crystal CMS
One of the key features of DuoCMS 6 has been speed and security. We've started using the crystal programming language for it's high performance. In addition we've spent time refining the content delivery to make best use of web caching and setting up protection against many modern web threats.
Using the blazing fast Crystal Programming Language
Implementing all of
Google's Pagespeed recommendations
Integration a range of modern web security measures
Responsive Website tested on all latest browsers and devices
As with any web presence over the past few years, it has become increasingly important to have a site which works as well on mobile as on desktop.
This fully responsive content managed website that gives massive levels of customisation for the HMK team when adding web content into various bespoke designed layouts, that work seamlessly across Desktop, Tablet and Mobile devices.
Deep nested interactive menu for mobile & desktop
HMK provide a large number of products via their website, including detailed technical descriptions of many thousands of components. Making this information quickly accessible on mobile devices involved developing a deeply nested interactive menu, allowing users to drill down to the product they need.
So this allows the user to expand subsections of content and still go to the main section, but this is all done in a way that visually maintains the simple clean design of the navigation.
Advanced Product Search Functionality
Fully CMS integrated bespoke search functionality with enhancing results filtering.
In addition to the navigation, finding products via search was also a major consideration with searches able to be preformed both on mobile and desktop. Each search defaults to showing products available matching your search terms but you can also filter these results to show search results for the rest of the website.
As the site is fully managed in house via Duo's content management system (CMS), the search index is updated immediately when a page is updated. Unlike Google's search, this instant update means HMK can author content and immediately check it appears under their internal search.
Third Party Integrations
HMKDirect.com features a number of third party integrations including:
- Mail Chimp Sign up, for managing email marketing with their clients
- Twitter - pulling through HMK's latest tweets into the site layout
- Zoho - chat integration for real time interaction with their website visitors
- Google Maps - custom styled map, showing the various locations of the HMK UK Offices.
- Reviews - Fully integrated reviews system, both within the website layout and using an iframe layout.
Other Features include
Image Slideshow
Online Product catalogue
Client Location
Congleton, Cheshire
Launch Date
July 2017
Website Address
www.hmkdirect.com
Our Solution
A new website design and content architecture creates not only an online fully searchable product resource but we have also designed in the ability for the HMK team to integrates a more story telling approach to how they work with clients. So users are guided by how they want to work with HMK, and directed to the correct information and resources, wether this be Product focused, a more complete consultancy assistance or past successes .
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