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Web design for Manchester businesses

Manchester's economy concentrates in districts with distinct business characters. The city centre across Deansgate and the Northern Quarter drives retail and hospitality; Spinningfields and NOMA are where the financial and professional services sector operates; MediaCityUK draws broadcast, digital and creative businesses to Salford Quays; and trades and services across the M postcodes produce steady residential demand from Didsbury and Chorlton to Ancoats and Miles Platting. We are a North Wales and Cheshire studio that builds for businesses across the region, including city firms, with every price published before you call and the site yours to keep.

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Who we build for

Who we build for in Manchester

The city centre and the Northern Quarter

The Arndale Centre drives volume retail while the Northern Quarter, a short distance north-east, concentrates independent shops, bars, restaurants and creative businesses with a character that draws buyers from across the city region. For an independent trading in that mix, the difference between footfall arriving and footfall going to the result below usually comes down to how you look online: real photography, current hours and a Google Business Profile that reflects the actual space rather than a template that could belong to anyone.

Spinningfields and the professional quarter

Spinningfields concentrates the legal, banking and financial advisory firms that serve the wider Manchester city region, and the NOMA development to the north-east holds a second cluster of office-based professional and technology businesses. These firms win work on first impressions that happen before anyone picks up a phone: the site needs to state capability specifically, make clear who the firm serves and give the right person a direct route in.

Trafford Park and the supply chain

Trafford Park covers around 1,250 acres to the west of the city centre and holds manufacturers, distributors, logistics operations and trade suppliers working across a range of sectors. The businesses there win contracts from buyers who assess suppliers online before making contact. The site needs to state what you do clearly, list any relevant certifications or capacity, and make reaching the correct contact straightforward rather than an exercise in navigating the wrong pages.

Trades and mobile services

Builders, plumbers, electricians, roofers and every trade covering the M postcodes from Gorton and Levenshulme to Wythenshawe and Eccles get their next job from a phone search. In a city with this much competition on every local search term, the site has one job: load fast, name the areas you cover, show you are a real operation and make the phone ring.

The practices

Dentists, physiotherapists, opticians, solicitors and accountants across Manchester's suburbs from Didsbury and Chorlton to Withington and Fallowfield win new clients on trust built before the first appointment. People with this many alternatives make a short online check before committing. The site needs to look established, answer what people verify before choosing a professional and make booking or getting in touch as direct as possible.

MediaCityUK and the digital sector

MediaCityUK at Salford Quays houses BBC Studios, ITV, dock10 and a growing cluster of production companies, digital agencies and technology businesses. Firms in the creative and digital sector win work on visible expertise: clients look at what you have done before they ask what you can do. The site needs to show the portfolio credibly, state the specialisms specifically and make it easy for the right person to reach you about the kind of work they want done.

The invitation

Be the first site we build in Manchester

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

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What we do

What we do for Manchester businesses

Sites for Manchester businesses are built around what each one actually needs: show up in the right searches across the city and the M postcodes, load fast on a phone, describe what you offer clearly and make contact easy. Every price is published before you call, the site is yours outright, and we look after it once it goes live if you want us to. If local search across Manchester and the wider Greater Manchester area is your priority, that is where the site is built to perform.

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 Manchester, for the record

Hallé Orchestra The Hallé, founded in Manchester in 1858 by the conductor and pianist Charles Hallé, is the oldest professional symphony orchestra in the United Kingdom to have operated on a continuous basis
Peterloo Massacre The Peterloo Massacre took place at St Peter's Field on 16 August 1819, when cavalry charged a crowd estimated at around 60,000 gathered to demand parliamentary reform; at least 15 people were killed and several hundred injured
Bridgewater Canal The Bridgewater Canal, engineered by James Brindley and opened from 1761 to carry coal from the Worsley mines of the Duke of Bridgewater into Manchester, was among the earliest purpose-built industrial canals in England
Emmeline Pankhurst Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903 at her home in Nelson Street, Manchester; the organisation grew into the principal force driving the suffragette campaign for women's right to vote
Manchester Town Hall Manchester Town Hall, designed by Alfred Waterhouse and opened in 1877, is built in Victorian Gothic style and regarded as one of the finest examples of civic architecture of its era in England; the Great Hall contains murals by Ford Madox Brown depicting Manchester's history
Questions

Things people usually ask.

Every package we offer has a published price on the pricing page, alongside a clear description of what it covers. The figure shown is what appears on the invoice when the project completes. No preliminary conversation is needed to find out what a build will cost, and the total agreed before work starts does not change as the project progresses.
Both approaches are common in the market. Every project we take on is priced at a fixed total agreed in writing before any work begins, so the amount on the final invoice is exactly what was set out at the start. An hourly rate makes sense for small, well-defined changes to an existing site; for a full new build from scratch it leaves the final cost uncertain until the project closes, which is a different kind of commitment when planning a budget.
Three to four weeks from a confirmed brief to a site ready to go live covers the usual range. That variation comes almost entirely from the content side: the copy, photography and decisions that only the client can supply. Projects where that material is in hand before the build starts run to the shorter end; those where it arrives in stages run longer, through no fault of the build itself.
For a small number of businesses the honest answer is no, and we say so when that looks to be the case. For most, a referral reaches someone who looks the business up online before making contact, to confirm it is still operating and is the right kind of work. In a city the size of Manchester, with alternatives a few results down the same page, what that search finds often determines whether the enquiry comes in or the search continues.
That is what building it correctly is for. Every page is structured around the searches people in Manchester and the relevant M postcodes actually make, the site is submitted to Google and connected to your Business Profile on the day it goes live, and positions build over weeks and months from there. Any promise of a specific ranking by a fixed date is an estimate, not something within the control of any web design firm.
The platform is rarely the limiting factor. The gap between launching something quickly and producing a site that brings in a consistent flow of enquiries from Manchester searches is where most self-builds run into difficulty: pages that load too slowly for mobile, content too thin for Google to treat as relevant to local searches, and a design that dates faster than expected. Most subscription-based builders also retire the site when payments stop; every site we build has the domain registered in your name before any work begins.
You own it from the outset. The domain is registered in your name before the first file is opened. Hosting sits under an account you control and can be moved to any provider without our involvement. No part of the design or code requires a continuing payment to us to stay live, and the ownership terms are set out in writing before work begins.
Yes. The site runs on WordPress and the handover covers the changes you will realistically want to make: updating a price, adding a new service, swapping a photograph or adjusting opening hours. If you would rather pass routine updates to us, the care plan covers those changes alongside security monitoring and backups for a fixed monthly amount.
The whole of Manchester: the city centre across M1 to M4, the inner suburbs through Ancoats, Ardwick and Hulme, the southern areas from Didsbury and Chorlton to Wythenshawe and Northenden, the northern suburbs through Moston, Collyhurst and Miles Platting, and the outer M postcodes beyond. Businesses whose catchment extends across Greater Manchester, toward Salford, Stockport, Wigan or Oldham, are built to describe that coverage clearly so the site earns enquiries from the full area served.
Yes. We do not maintain a city-centre office, which is part of how the pricing stays where it does. For businesses in Manchester we come to your premises or a convenient venue for the project kick-off. Work after that meeting runs by phone and email, which keeps the timeline moving and the project on track.
Either can be the right call, and looking at what is there is usually enough to give a clear steer. When the underlying build is sound and the problems are specific and fixable, targeted improvements are more practical than starting fresh. When the foundations are wrong, a new build is the better recommendation. Looking at the current site costs nothing, and any work that follows is priced on the same published terms.
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