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Web design for Alderley Edge businesses

Alderley Edge's economy sits between a residential village and a professional hub. London Road concentrates independent restaurants, salons and professional practices serving one of the most affluent catchments in the North West; commuter trains to Manchester Piccadilly each morning mean working residents return with expectations calibrated by the city. Trades across the SK9 postcode win work in homes where the specification is routinely high and a poor first impression is rarely forgiven. Alderley Park's life sciences cluster, three miles south, adds a B2B supply dimension few villages near Manchester share. We build sites for owner-run firms here, every price published before you call, the site yours.

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Who we build for

Who we build for in Alderley Edge

London Road and the village centre

Restaurants, cafés, independent shops and salons along London Road and the adjacent streets serve a resident and visitor base that measures quality by the standard of what is available in Manchester a twenty-minute train ride away. Looking considered online, loading fast on a phone and showing accurate current hours earns the footfall that the competition loses to a result further up the page.

Solicitors, accountants and wealth management

The professional practices around the village centre serve a catchment extending into Prestbury, Mottram St Andrew and the surrounding Cheshire parishes. Trust forms before the first contact; the site needs to look established, answer the questions clients check before shortlisting a firm and make getting in touch the natural next step rather than returning to search results.

Trades and home services

Builders, electricians, landscapers and kitchen fitters working across the SK9 postcode serve a residential catchment where the specification is often high and where a poor first impression is rarely given a second chance. The site needs to show the work clearly, name the villages and areas you cover, and make calling or enquiring straightforward from a phone.

Estate agents and the residential market

Alderley Edge is one of the most sought-after addresses in the North West, drawing buyers from Manchester, London and beyond. Estate agents, conveyancers and mortgage brokers serving this market win mandates before anyone calls; the site needs to reflect genuine local knowledge, show current activity and make reaching the right person the obvious next step.

Health, dental and beauty services

Dental practices, physiotherapy clinics, cosmetic providers and salons serving the village and the surrounding SK9 catchment work on appointment and reputation. Clients research before they book; the site needs to load fast on a phone, describe treatments clearly, show the team and make booking or enquiring a single step.

Alderley Park and the life sciences supply chain

Alderley Park, three miles south in Nether Alderley, is home to one of the North West's principal life sciences clusters. Businesses supplying pharmaceutical and biotech tenants, from specialist engineering and IT services to facilities and logistics, win contracts by passing a credibility check online: the site needs to name the sector clearly, state capability and make reaching the right contact straightforward.

The invitation

Be the first site we build in Alderley Edge

Every town on this site started at zero. The first Alderley Edge business to build with us gets exactly what every client gets, and this page tells the story afterwards.

✓ Every price published before you call ✓ A site you own outright, no rental, no lock-in ✓ The case study spot on this page once you are live
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What we do

What we do for Alderley Edge businesses

Sites for Alderley Edge businesses are built around what each one needs to do: be found when someone in the SK9 area searches, load fast on a phone, say clearly what you offer and make getting in touch the obvious next step. Every price is published before you call, the site is yours outright, and if you want it maintained once it is live we do that too. If being found locally across Alderley Edge and the surrounding villages is your priority, the site gets built around those searches first.

Street map of Alderley Edge with landmarks and districts
Pricing

Every price, published.

The same published price list applies in every town we serve. No quote theatre, no local premium.

Basic WebsiteBusiness WebsiteProfessional WebsiteEnterprise Website
From£1,000£1,500£2,500£5,000
Pagesup to 5up to 10up to 20agreed up front
Designtemplate-basedtemplate-basedcustom to your brandfully custom
SEOon-page basicson-page basicsfull foundationfull foundation
Support after launchhandover1 month3 months6 months
AnalyticsGA4GA4 + Search ConsoleGA4 + Search ConsoleGA4 + Search Console
Enquiries to inbox + portalIncludedIncludedIncludedIncluded
BlogNot includedIncludedIncludedIncluded
Typical timescaleup to 2 weeksup to 2 weeks3 weeksfrom 4 weeks
Basic Website A five page website that works on every screen and brings you enquiries. From £1,000 Business Website Ten pages, a blog, proper tracking and a month of support after launch. From £1,500 Professional Website A bigger site, designed around your brand, with the SEO foundations laid properly. From £2,500 Enterprise Website A large custom site with the functionality your business actually needs. From £5,000 Landing Page One page built to convert, with A/B versions ready to test from launch. £750 E-commerce Website A WooCommerce shop with your products loaded, payments live and stock managed. From £3,500 Shopify Store Setup A Shopify shop set up, styled to your brand and ready to trade. From £2,500 Website Refresh A design and copy refresh on the site you have already got, without a rebuild. From £750 Website Maintenance We keep your site updated, backed up and online. £49/mo
For the record

Five things about Alderley Edge, for the record

The Edge The Edge, a National Trust managed sandstone escarpment and woodland south of the village, contains Bronze Age copper mines worked from around 1200 BC; it is among the most significant prehistoric copper-mining sites in Britain
The Wizard legend A Cheshire legend holding that a wizard guards a sleeping army beneath the sandstone was set down in a ballad published in 1805; it provided the setting and central conceit of Alan Garner's 1960 novel The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Nether Alderley Mill Nether Alderley Mill, a fifteenth-century watermill in the care of the National Trust, stands on the road south from the village and is among the oldest surviving corn mills in Cheshire; it remained in commercial use into the twentieth century
Alderley Park Alderley Park occupies the estate grounds south of the village and was home to AstraZeneca's principal UK research and development headquarters for over fifty years; since 2013 the site has operated as a life sciences and technology cluster and is one of the larger scientific employment centres in the North West
Railway village Alderley Edge station opened in 1842 on the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, one of the earliest main lines to connect Cheshire to Manchester; the village grew swiftly in the decades that followed as Manchester merchants and professionals established homes here, giving it the concentrated professional character it retains
Questions

Things people usually ask.

Every option and its price is listed on the pricing page of this site before any conversation takes place. The figure shown is the total; there is no discovery process that reveals a different number once work starts, and the price on the first day is the price on the final invoice.
Hourly and fixed-price both exist as approaches. We settle a total in writing before anything moves, which means the number at the start and the number on the final invoice are the same. Hourly billing is well suited to small, discrete changes to a site that already exists; for a new build from scratch, it tends to leave the final cost uncertain until the job is almost finished.
Three to four weeks from the point the brief is confirmed is the typical range. That is the build side; the more common source of delay is content. Written copy, photographs and decisions that only you can make set the actual pace, and when that material is ready before the build starts, the build itself rarely adds a week to the timeline.
There are businesses for which a website changes very little, and when that is genuinely the case we say so rather than building something that will not pay back. For most, the moment a referral lands, the person who received it checks the business name before calling. In the SK9 catchment, where the professional population has high expectations and ready alternatives in Wilmslow, Knutsford and across the Manchester corridor, the quality of what comes up in that search matters more than most owners give it credit for.
A properly built site is constructed for that purpose. The pages are structured around what people in Alderley Edge and the SK9 postcode genuinely type into Google when they are looking for what you offer; the site is connected to your Google Business Profile and submitted to Google's index on the day it launches. Search positions take weeks and months to establish; a guaranteed ranking by a named date is not something any honest builder can offer.
The builder or platform is rarely where it fails. The failure usually comes earlier: in the gap between starting and finishing to a quality that earns enquiries. Load times that push visitors away on a mobile device, insufficient written content to appear in local search, and design choices that look dated within twelve months are the recurring problems. Ownership is the more lasting concern: on subscription-based platforms, stopping the monthly fee typically removes the site. We register the domain and hosting in your name from day one, so the site remains yours regardless of what becomes of our business.
Everything passes to you outright at the end of the project. The domain is in your name from the start, the hosting account is yours to move to any provider without exit costs, and there are no continuing licence fees on the build itself that would tie you to us financially. The written agreement, which you see before any work begins, sets all of this out clearly.
Yes, and it is worth being specific about what that means in practice. The site is built on WordPress and you get a handover session covering the edits you are most likely to need: swapping a photograph, adjusting a price or description, posting a news item if you want one. If the idea of managing that side of things is not appealing, the care plan handles it; updates, backups and security monitoring for a fixed monthly fee.
The whole SK9 catchment and the surrounding parishes: Alderley Edge itself, Nether Alderley and the lanes south toward Chelford, Mottram St Andrew and Prestbury to the east, Mobberley and the Knutsford direction to the west, and Wilmslow to the north. If your clients extend into the SK10 postcode around Macclesfield, or you serve a wider Cheshire corridor, the site is built to describe that coverage honestly.
Yes. Working without a client-facing office is part of how we keep the project costs at the levels they are. For businesses in Alderley Edge and the surrounding villages, we come to your premises or somewhere convenient locally at the start of the project. All of the contact after that runs by phone and email.
The honest answer requires looking at what is there; the right call is often obvious after a few minutes. Improving a site that has good bones is usually quicker and cheaper than starting from scratch. Starting fresh is the right answer when the existing structure is too rigid to adapt at sensible cost, or when the performance problems run deep enough that fixing them would cost more than rebuilding. The assessment takes no time and nothing to pay, and whichever route makes sense is priced on the same fixed-total basis.
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