Product families you can filter, a datasheet for each, a request-for-quote form, Italian and English side by side. We design it and build it, for one price: €3,450.
The chain on the left is your order. Each package is a punched card. Add one and the loom weaves a band for it; design work brings colour, build work tightens the warp.
Example order: catalogue site, 30 more products typed in, three care months. €3,930.
Sample concept, not client work
Case file: a valve maker's listino
Two files came in. An Excel listino (price list) with 212 rows and eleven columns. And a 46-page PDF catalogue, last laid out years ago, with a scheda tecnica (datasheet) for each family of valves.
The maker is Valvole Brusarola Srl, near Magenta. They don't exist; we invented them so we could show the job honestly from start to finish without borrowing anyone's catalogue.
listino · price listscheda tecnica · datasheet
Sample concept, not client work
listino_2019_DEF_v3.xlsx
The spreadsheet as it arrived (excerpt). Drawn for this sample.
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
1
Codice
Famiglia
Descrizione
Materiale
Attacco
DN1
PN
Tenuta
Prezzo distrib.2
Prezzo listino
Note
2
VS-1015
1 Sfera
Valvola a sfera 2 vie
Ottone
F/F
DN 15
40
PTFE
8,20
12,60
3
VS-1020
1 Sfera
Valvola a sfera 2 vie
Ottone
F/F
diametro 20
40
PTFE
9,90
15,20
4
VS-1025
1 Sfera
Valvola a sfera 2 vie
Ottone
F/F
DN 25
40
PTFE
13,40
20,60
5
VR-2015
2 Ritegno
Ritegno a molla
Ottone
F/F
diametro 15
16
NBR
6,40
9,80
63
VF-4065
4 Farfalla
Butterfly wafer
Ghisa
Wafer
DN 65
16
EPDM
41,00
63,00
vedi PDF p.31
7
VF-4080
4 Farfalla
Butterfly wafer
Ghisa
Wafer
DN 80
16
EPDM
48,50
74,60
212 rows4
The spreadsheet as it arrived (excerpt). Drawn for this sample.
Margin notes
1Column F says "DN" in some rows and "diametro" in others. Same thing.
2Distributor and end-user prices sit in the same sheet. Only one of them should ever reach the website.
3The PDF calls family 4 "farfalla" on the cover and "butterfly" inside.
4212 rows, but only 58 actual products. The rest are sizes of the same valve.
The 212 rows sort into 12 families. Five columns become filters: material, DN, PN, connection, seal. Everything else moves to the datasheet table, where a buyer reads it rather than clicks it.
Sample concept, not client work
212 rows → 12 families → 58 products
Valvole a sfera · Ball valves
Valvole di ritegno · Check valves
Saracinesche · Gate valves
Valvole a farfalla · Butterfly valves
Filtri a Y · Y-strainers
Valvole di sicurezza · Safety relief valves
Riduttori di pressione · Pressure reducers
Valvole a spillo · Needle valves
Rubinetti di scarico · Drain cocks
Raccordi · Fittings
Collettori · Manifolds
Ricambi e accessori · Spares and accessories
Family tree, 12 branches, 58 products.
WK 03–04 / 08
Design · weeks 3–4
Four layouts carry the whole catalogue: home, family page, product table, datasheet. Designed once, in both languages, so the English never turns up as an afterthought. Two rounds of changes.
Sample concept, not client work
Valvole a sfera · Ball valvesIT · EN
MaterialDNPNConnectionSeal
Code
DN
PN
Material
VS-1015
15
40
Brass
VS-1020
20
40
Brass
VS-1025
25
40
Brass
Ask for a quote on thisDatasheet PDF · 380 KB
Family page, face side.
WK 05–06 / 08
Build · weeks 5–6
The spreadsheet becomes the site's data, and the pages are generated from it. Change a price in the sheet, rebuild, done. The quote form sends straight to the sales inbox from their own hosting.
Stated targets, not results: a family page under 1 MB, readable with JavaScript switched off, keyboard usable from top to bottom.
Syncing the catalogue with your ERP or a PIM. We build from a spreadsheet. If you need live stock and prices from your gestionale (management software), talk to your ERP integrator or a PIM vendor.
Listing you on Amazon or other marketplaces. A marketplace agency does this every day; we don't.
Promising a Google position. We build pages Google can read and pair the languages properly. Nobody honest can promise rank.
Selling you hosting. You buy it from a host you choose, in your company's name. We set the site up on it.
Translating your texts. Your English comes from you or a professional translator. We lay it out and check it fits.
Product photography. A product photographer, ideally one with a light tent and patience. We'll tell them the sizes we need.
Via Acerbi, 10
We work from Castano Primo, a few minutes from the Ticino and from most of the workshops we'd like to build catalogues for. Come by if you'd rather show us the PDF on paper; ring first.