Doratec GmbH is a young family business in Oftringen, in the canton of Aargau, whose team brings more than twenty years of experience in selling and installing windows and doors. It supplies windows in PVC, aluminium, wood and wood-aluminium, front doors, lift-and-slide doors and the insect screens and window sills that go with them, working with partners such as VEKA, Schüco, Siegenia and Pirnar.
Doratec’s range is wide: five window systems in four materials, four collections of front doors and lift-and-slide doors in five constructions, each line from a different manufacturer with its own datasheets and product names. The people it serves are planning a renovation, a conversion or a new build, and most of them buy windows once in a long while.
Windows are chosen on figures: how well the frame insulates, how much noise the glass keeps out, how deep the profile is and which fittings hold it. Those figures decide comfort and heating costs for decades, but manufacturers publish them for installers. The site had to let a homeowner compare one window with another, find a front door they like, and see what happens after the first call.
We built the site around what people come to buy. Under Products the menu holds four pages, windows, front doors, sliding doors and accessories, with projects, the company and contact beside it. The homepage opens on the same range: a slider with a slide each for PVC, for aluminium windows, for doors and for wood and wood-aluminium, then four tiles that step down the page into the product pages.
Every window system is set out the same way. Each of the five has one block: what it is and what it suits, a cut through its profile, and a table of its figures that starts with its thermal insulation. Someone weighing a PVC window against a wood-aluminium one reads two blocks built alike instead of two datasheets.
Front doors are chosen by eye, so their page leads with pictures. A strip of door models moves across the page, then the four collections, Optimum, Premium, Ultimum Pure and Ultimum Multilevel, each show their models in a grid, with the full catalogue a click away as a PDF.
The homepage answers what a first-time buyer wants to know next: what happens after they call. Four numbered steps, consultation, planning, manufacturing and installation, take the job from the first conversation to the fitted window.
The partners are on show. A moving strip carries the brands Doratec works with, VEKA, Schüco, Siegenia, aluplast, Procural and Pirnar, and the homepage gives five reasons to choose Doratec windows: quality, trust, innovation, design and security.
Getting in touch is one step from any page. The phone number and email address sit in every footer, and the contact page adds the opening hours and a short form that asks which product the enquiry is about, so each one reaches Doratec already sorted.
The menu also works without a mouse. Enter, Space or the down arrow opens the products menu on its first page, the arrow keys move through it, and Escape closes it and returns to where you were; a screen reader is told whether it is open.
