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Web design for Salford businesses

Salford sits immediately west of Manchester and its economy reflects that proximity. MediaCityUK at Salford Quays draws BBC Studios, ITV and a dense cluster of digital and production businesses whose suppliers win on visible capability. Salford Royal and the University of Salford anchor the healthcare and education base. Retail and services along Chapel Street and in Eccles compete against the Manchester pull a tram ride away. Trades covering the M5, M6 and M27 postcodes get their next job through phone searches. We are a North Wales and Cheshire studio that builds for businesses across the region, including Salford, every price published before you call, the site yours to keep.

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Who we build for

Who we build for in Salford

MediaCityUK and the digital sector

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

Chapel Street and the professional quarter

Solicitors, accountants, financial advisers and consultancies along Chapel Street and the civic core of the city win clients who have already looked them up online before making contact. The site needs to look established, name the kind of work you take on and make getting in touch the straightforward next step rather than a reason to keep looking down the results page.

Salford Royal and the care sector

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust anchors a substantial healthcare and care employment base across the city. Care homes, domiciliary providers, therapy practices and health businesses competing for placements and referrals win on trust and how clearly they communicate online. Families researching options check the website before the first call. The site needs to state what you provide plainly, show regulatory status and make the initial enquiry as easy as possible.

Trades and mobile services

Builders, plumbers, electricians, roofers and every trade covering the M5, M6 and M27 postcodes from Eccles and Pendleton to Swinton and Worsley 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, confirm you are a real local operation and make the phone ring before the customer moves on.

Eccles and the retail townships

Church Street in Eccles and the shopping parades in Pendleton and Swinton serve a residential population that could easily go into Manchester city centre for the same purchase. Being found first on a phone search, showing current hours and looking as credible as the larger names nearby keeps footfall in the township rather than losing it to a result further up the page.

Port Salford and the logistics corridor

Port Salford on the Manchester Ship Canal forms the inland container terminal for the Greater Manchester city region. Logistics, warehousing and distribution businesses in the corridor win contracts from buyers who check suppliers online before any call is made. The site needs to state capability clearly, list relevant accreditations and make reaching the right contact person the straightforward path rather than a navigation exercise.

The invitation

Be the first site we build in Salford

Every town on this site started at zero. The first Salford 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 Salford businesses

Sites for Salford businesses are built around what each one actually needs: show up when someone in the city or the surrounding M postcodes searches, load fast on a phone, say clearly what you offer and make getting in touch straightforward. Every price is published before you call, the site is yours outright, and if you want it looked after once it is live we do that too. If being found locally across Salford and the wider Greater Manchester area is your priority, the site gets built around those searches first.

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 Salford, for the record

City status Salford received city status in 1926, granted by Letters Patent from King George V, making it one of the earliest industrial towns in England to be formally elevated to city rank
Manchester Ship Canal The Manchester Ship Canal, opened in 1894, passes through Salford and gave the area direct ocean-going access; the Salford Docks operated as a major inland port for most of the twentieth century before their redevelopment into Salford Quays
L.S. Lowry L.S. Lowry lived and worked in Pendlebury and Salford for most of his life; the Lowry arts centre at Salford Quays, opened in 2000, is named after him and holds the world's largest collection of his paintings and drawings
Salford Cathedral The Cathedral Church of St John the Evangelist became a cathedral in 1850 when the Diocese of Salford was created, making it one of the earliest Roman Catholic cathedrals established in England following Catholic Emancipation
MediaCityUK BBC Studios transferred major operations from London to MediaCityUK at Salford Quays between 2011 and 2012, including BBC Breakfast, the BBC Sport unit and Radio 5 Live; the move was the largest single transfer of broadcasting infrastructure from London to the regions in the BBC'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 includes. The figure shown is what appears on the invoice when the project completes. No preliminary conversation is needed to establish a budget, and the total agreed before work starts does not change as the project progresses.
Both approaches are in use in the local market. Every project we take on is agreed at a fixed total in writing before any work begins, so the invoice at the end reflects exactly what was set out at the start. Hourly billing can suit a small, precisely defined amendment to an existing site; for a new build from scratch, it leaves the final cost uncertain until the project closes, which is a different kind of commitment when you are setting 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 written copy, photography and approval decisions that can only come from the business. Projects where that material is in hand before the build opens 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 then searches for the business online before making contact, to confirm it is still operating and is the right kind of work. In a city the size of Salford, adjacent to Manchester, what that search returns often determines whether the enquiry comes in or the person continues looking.
That is what building it correctly is for. Every page is structured around the searches people in Salford and across 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 commitment to a specific ranking by a fixed date is an estimate rather than 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 Salford searches is where most self-builds run into difficulty: pages too slow for mobile, content too thin for Google to treat as relevant to local searches, and a design that ages faster than expected. Most subscription 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 runs 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 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 the City of Salford: the city centre and Chapel Street, Salford Quays and MediaCityUK, Ordsall and Langworthy, Pendleton, Eccles and Church Street, Swinton and Pendlebury to the north, Worsley and Boothstown to the west, and Irlam and Cadishead further out. Businesses whose catchment extends across Greater Manchester, toward Manchester city centre, Leigh, Wigan or the M postcodes beyond, 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 Salford we come to your premises or a suitable venue for the project kick-off. Work after that meeting runs by phone and email, which keeps the project moving and avoids the delays that in-person meetings at every stage tend to introduce.
Either can be the right call, and looking at what you have is usually enough to give a clear recommendation. When the underlying build is sound and the problems are specific and fixable, targeted improvements are more practical than starting over. 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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