Somebody wants a sliding gate and cannot picture yours, so they go to the place with a showroom.
Your work is in fifty driveways around town and none of it has your name on it.
You send photographs one at a time on WhatsApp, to every single enquiry.
A customer asks what a standard gate costs and the conversation takes four days.

What you get

This is the page, not a picture of one

Every screen below is the real thing, photographed on a phone.

A gallery instead of forty WhatsApp messages

Send one link. They scroll through everything you have made and come back knowing what they want.

A steel workshop's page showing photographs of a gate, welding and a balustrade — One link instead of forty WhatsApp photographs. This one is our own demo steel workshop, so nobody's real work is on it

What you actually make, listed

Sliding gates, burglar guards, steel windows, balustrades. So you stop being asked whether you do the thing you have done a hundred times.

A steel workshop's page listing gates, burglar bars, railings and balustrades — What they actually make, listed. This one is our own demo steel workshop, so nobody's real work is on it

The areas you deliver to

Steel is heavy and people need to know before they ask. Say it on the page and stop wasting both your time.

A page section headed how we work, listing the areas covered and the usual lead time — Where they deliver to, answered before anybody asks. This one is our own demo steel workshop, so nobody's real work is on it

Already set up

Set up for a welder before you start

Everything here is switched on the moment you say what you do. Take off whatever does not apply to you.

Ticked already, untick what you do not have

Driveway gates
Pedestrian gates
Sliding gate repairs
Burglar bars
Security gates
Palisade fencing
Boundary railings
Staircases and balustrades
Carports and shade frames
Awnings and canopies
Steel trusses and roof frames
Trailers and trailer repairs
Towbars
Braai stands and fire pits
Table and furniture frames
Stainless steel work
Aluminium work
On-site welding repairs
Cutting, drilling and bending
Galvanising and painting

Switched on for you

Quote button. Somebody can ask you for a price without phoning you.
Price list. Your prices where people can see them, so you stop being asked.
Photo gallery. Your own photographs of your own work, big enough to see properly.

The design we start you on: Workroom

For a personal craft shop or class business run by one person. Warm and small-scale, with a pinned-up wall of the member's own work.

Change it for any of the others whenever you like.

Before you start

6 questions, and 5 of them are optional

This is the whole list. Anything you leave blank is simply left off your page.

What we ask you

NeededWhere do you work?
OptionalDo you work from a workshop, on site, or both?
OptionalDo you make to measure?
OptionalWhat do you work in?
OptionalDo you paint or galvanise what you make?
OptionalHow long does a typical job take?

Photographs to have ready

Three finished pieces, as different from each other as possible
A gate, a set of burglar bars and a trailer say more about your range than any list. Photograph them installed rather than in the workshop.
Your workshop or your bakkie set up for a job (optional)
This is what tells a customer you are a real operation rather than somebody with a borrowed welder.
A close-up of a weld or a finish you are proud of (optional)
The one photo that separates you from the cheapest quote. A clean weld or a properly finished corner is worth saying nothing about and showing.

Our own demo

See a whole welder page, top to bottom

This one is ours, not a member's. We built it so you can look at a finished page for your trade before you type anything, without us putting somebody else's work on show.

Vaal Steel and Gates

Our demo business

Look at the whole page

Your steel work, where people can see it before they phone

Look at your own page before you pay anything. Nothing to cancel.

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