Websites for a town built on roads, rivers and orders
The local economy owes a great deal to the road and the river. The town sits squarely on the Brussels-Ghent axis, along the E40 and the Dender. That explains why both heavy food industry and logistics settled here. The area is one of the historic cores of Belgian food processing: sugar, starch and plant-based food have plants and suppliers nearby, including names such as Tereos and Alpro. Around them lives a whole layer of smaller producers, packers and wholesalers.
Historically, the town is also a centre of printers and graphic arts. That sector has had to reinvent itself over the past twenty years, moving towards digital printing, personalisation and online ordering. The Wijngaardveld, Zuid III and Siesegemkouter business parks hold most of that activity. As a result, the Aalst websites worth building are rarely shop windows. For a food or print business, digital means orders, quotes, specifications and traceability, and that is precisely what we build.
How we build Aalst websites, step by step
This is one of the few towns where we do not need to argue that distance is no obstacle. Our office on Rue de la Colonne in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean is half an hour away, by car on the E40 or by train from Brussels-North. We have no local office, and we will not pretend otherwise. In practice, however, we come here as easily as to a Brussels municipality, and we do not bill for the trip. We also run the whole project in Dutch, French or English, whichever your team prefers.
For a food producer or a printer, we start with the order flow: how an order arrives, who approves what, which documents travel with it. That determines the right tool. It might be an online shop, a closed ordering portal for your regular customers, or an internal system connected to your ERP. We also plan for Peppol e-invoicing between Belgian companies. We then deliver Aalst websites and portals in stages, with something visible within the first few weeks. The first meeting and the quote are free, and the quote reaches you within 24 hours.
A typical project runs in four stages. First, a workshop at your premises to map orders, documents and users. Next, mock-ups approved by the people who will actually place orders. Then a first version tested by a handful of regular customers before it opens to everyone. Finally, training for your team and the launch. At each stage we check the sensitive points: the users' language, access rights and GDPR compliance for customer accounts.
