Web design / Huntsville, AL
Your reader has an engineering degree
In most cities a website gets skimmed. In Huntsville it often gets read, line by line, by someone at Redstone Arsenal, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center or a prime contractor in Cummings Research Park, who’s trying to work out whether your company can actually do what it claims. Those readers have seen a thousand sites promising “mission-focused solutions.” The phrase tells them nothing, and they’ve learned to scroll straight past it.
What persuades them is the stuff most marketing sites leave out: core competencies stated narrowly, NAICS codes, contract vehicles, certifications, the facilities you work from and a named point of contact. Past performance matters most of all, described in as much detail as you’re permitted to share. Contracting officers will still want a capability statement they can download, so we design the PDF and the web page together, and they never contradict each other.
None of that needs to look dull. A clear page with good typography and real photographs of your people and your shop reads as competent, which is the whole point. For a product that’s hard to explain in words, a short piece of 3D design can show an assembly or a mechanism better than a paragraph can.
The careers page is half the site
Huntsville firms compete hard for the same engineers, analysts and technicians, many of them holding clearances. For many companies here, the careers page matters as much as anything on the homepage, and it’s usually the weakest page on the site.
A good one states the clearance level each role needs, where the work happens (on post, in the Research Park or remote), and what the benefits really are, in plain language. It loads quickly on mobile and lets someone apply without building an account. And your HR team needs to add and close openings without help, which is how we set up job listings in Framer. That’s a routine part of web design for us, and in this city it may be the most useful part.
Madison, Athens and the new plant
The metro is just two counties, Madison and Limestone, but it’s spreading. The city of Madison has its own identity and its own searches. Athens, the Limestone County seat, is growing toward Huntsville from the west, and the Mazda Toyota plant on the Limestone County side of Huntsville has drawn suppliers and new subdivisions around it.
That growth creates ordinary, local work: roofers, HVAC companies, daycares, dentists, restaurants feeding a shift change. People moving into those neighborhoods search by “Madison” or “Athens”, or simply rely on their phone’s location. A contractor who wants that work needs pages written for those towns, and our contractors guide explains how we’d approach them.
Being remote, we have no Huntsville office, and calls go on Central Time. Designs come to you for review wherever you are (on post or off), and by launch your staff can run the site.
Contractor questions
What shouldn’t go on a contractor’s public website?
Anything your contracts, your security officer or export rules keep out of public view, and you’re the judge of that, not us. We design around what you’ve cleared for release, and we’d rather a page say less than say something you’ll have to take down.
Can our HR team post and remove job openings themselves?
Yes. Openings live in a simple collection in Framer, so adding one is a short form and closing it takes a click. We can also set listings to drop off on their closing date.