Website design · Scrap metal recycling and steel sales
Skagit River Steel & Recycling
A fast, mobile-first website for the only full-service scrapyard and steel supplier in Skagit County, with recycling services, metal sales and careers each given their own place, and a quote request one tap away on every page.
- Industry
- Scrap metal recycling and steel sales
- Location
- Burlington, WA
- What we did
- Web design, Local SEO, Hosting
- Since 1958family story told on every page
- Mobile-firstCore Web Vitals passing
- One tapto call or request a quote
Objectives
What Skagit River Steel & Recycling needed from this website design project, and what we built for it.
The goal
Show what the yard takes and what it sells
What we built
Recycling services and metal sales are separate parts of the site, each with its own pages, so a contractor looking to sell scrap and a fabricator looking to buy steel both land in the right place.
The goal
Make it easy to call or ask for a quote
What we built
The phone number, hours and address sit in the top bar of every page, with a click-to-call button and a contact form that asks only for what is needed.
The goal
Be found in Skagit County and the surrounding area
What we built
An areas-we-serve section, LocalBusiness schema and page titles written for the searches people in Burlington, Mount Vernon and Anacortes actually make.
The goal
Load fast on phones
What we built
Built mobile-first, with compressed images, critical CSS, caching and a CDN, tuned for Core Web Vitals.
The goal
Fit the ABC Recycling family
What we built
A design that stands on its own but shares the structure of the ABC Recycling site, so both can be maintained the same way.
Prototyping
Skagit River Steel & Recycling, page by page, before colour and photos.
The home page and the main inner pages as greyscale wireframes, for desktop and for phones. With colour and photography taken out, what is left is the structure: where the navigation, headings, images and calls to action sit on each page.
Colour and style
The look of Skagit River Steel & Recycling.
Deep blue with one safety-orange accent for calls to action, condensed uppercase headings and aerial photography of the yard, so the first screen reads as a working scrapyard before a word is read.
Headings
Barlow Condensed
Body text
Inter
Content
What the site says, and where.
Recycling services are split by customer: ferrous and non-ferrous metals, commercial recycling, scrap collection with bin sizes, construction and demolition, and farm recycling. Metal sales lists what is stocked and what can be ordered, cut and delivered. Careers, community and the family history each have their own section.
Home
- About us
- Recycling services
- Ferrous and non-ferrous metals
- Commercial and trade recycling
- Scrap collection and bin sizes
- Construction and demolition recycling
- Farm and agricultural recycling
- Metal sales
- Cardboard recycling
- Careers
- Contact
The build
How the Skagit River Steel & Recycling website was built.
Skagit River Steel & Recycling needed a site that explains what the yard buys and sells, makes it easy to call or request a quote, and is found across Skagit County. This is what went into it.
Custom WordPress build
A responsive, accessible site in WordPress with a structure for recycling services, metal sales, careers and community that can grow. Reusable components and field-based content keep every edit consistent.
Local SEO
Page titles, descriptions and headings written for Burlington and Skagit County searches, an areas-we-serve section, LocalBusiness schema and consistent name, address and phone details.
Speed and Core Web Vitals
Images compressed, critical CSS, caching and a CDN, tuned for phones first.
Contact and quote paths
Phone number, address and hours in the top bar, click-to-call on phones, a contact form and a careers form, all wired to the yard's inbox.
Hosted on WebCrafters Cloud
North American hosting on Nginx and PHP-FPM with Redis caching, an edge CDN, WAF and DDoS protection, daily off-site backups and uptime monitoring.
Security and reliability
Security hardening and uptime monitoring, so the site stays available when traffic spikes.
The build
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