Web design in Manchester
We are not based in Manchester and we are not going to pretend otherwise. We work with Manchester businesses the way most of them already work with their accountant: on the phone, over WhatsApp and on a video call when there is something to look at. We build your site first and send you the link, so you judge the actual thing before a penny changes hands. Distance does not matter much when you can see the work.
We build the site first and show you. If a Manchester builder wants money before you have seen anything, that tells you how confident they are.
A website that does one job: get the phone to ring
A plain list, no sales talk. This is what you are paying for.
- Set up so Google can read it: titles, descriptions, schema, the lot
- Every page written by hand, so it loads in under two seconds on 4G
- One clear price up front. Builds from £395, and shops or apps are quoted on the job
- A free preview of your own site inside 48 hours, before you pay anything
- Live on your own domain, with the email and DNS moved for you
- Your number, your WhatsApp and your quote form on every single screen
The Manchester businesses we build for most
Manchester is really a cluster of very different places sharing one name. The city centre runs on grooming, food and small studios, the inner suburbs run on terraced houses that always need work, and the older trading districts north and south of the centre still run on stock and wholesale.
Barbers and salons in the Northern Quarter and Ancoats
Walk from Stevenson Square to Great Ancoats Street and you pass barber after barber, most taking bookings through Fresha or Booksy. That is fine until the booking app is the only place you exist and it shows your rivals on the same screen. Your own site, with your cuts, your prices and your book button, is the one page where nobody else is advertised next to you.
Builders and roofers working the terraces
Levenshulme, Longsight, Chorlton and Withington are street after street of red brick Victorian terraces, a lot of them rented out, and every one needs a roof, a gutter or a damp job sooner or later. Landlords and letting agents search, compare and phone fast. A site that shows the streets you have worked on and gets your number on screen in one tap wins that race.
Dealers, wholesalers and specialist sellers
Cheetham Hill has been a trading district for well over a century, and Levenshulme Antiques Village on Stockport Road is full of dealers selling fireplaces, furniture and collectables. Much of that trade still happens by phone and on marketplaces that take a cut. A proper catalogue site with your own stock on it keeps the repeat buyer coming to you direct. Shops are quoted on the job.
More on this: websites for builders, websites for roofers and websites for barbers and salons.
What you are actually up against in Manchester
Type almost any trade and Manchester into Google and the first thing under the map is usually Checkatrade, whose Manchester pages cover everywhere from Salford to Stockport and Oldham to Trafford. That is the real problem here. Google treats the whole conurbation as one search, so a roofer in Stretford and a roofer in Oldham are competing for the same three map spots, and the directories sit above both of them charging for the lead.
The way through is to stop trying to rank for all of Manchester and win the part you actually cover. Separate, honest pages for the areas you work, like Chorlton, Didsbury or Levenshulme, a Google profile that says the same thing, and photos of jobs on streets people recognise. The big firms rarely bother with that level of detail, which is exactly why it works.
Who we have actually built for near Manchester
Every site we show is live on the client's own domain right now. This is the closest one to Manchester, and you can check it before you ring us.
Shakeshaft Jones, Middlewich, Cheshire
Trading since 2016 on word of mouth alone, with nothing online to show for it. Their five-page site gives them a professional home on the web, a gallery of finished jobs, availability at a glance, and per-person contact buttons that turn browsers into direct enquiries.
Home improvements, which is the same spread of trades most of Manchester runs on.
Middlewich is 22 miles from Manchester in a straight line.
Live on their own domain at shakeshaftjones.co.uk, and we have written the whole job up: read the Shakeshaft Jones case study.
If that one is not close enough to what you do, our work page lists the rest with the town each is in. Only signed, live jobs are listed there as clients, and every concept build is labelled as a concept.
Where we work around Manchester
We work with Manchester businesses remotely, so these are the areas we know from the work, not from driving round them.
- The Northern Quarter, Ancoats and New Islington
- Cheetham Hill and the trading streets north of the centre
- Levenshulme, Longsight and the Stockport Road corridor
- Chorlton, Whalley Range and Fallowfield
- Didsbury, Withington and West Didsbury
- Wythenshawe and the M22 and M23 estates
Web Design in Manchester: three questions we get asked
Will it work properly on a phone?
It is built for the phone first, because that is where people look a business up. Every page is written by hand, so there is no page builder weighing it down, and your number, your WhatsApp and your quote form sit on every screen.
Do you use templates or a page builder?
No. Every page is written by hand for your business, which is a large part of why it loads quickly on a phone. There is no bought theme underneath it and no builder subscription to keep paying.
You are not in Manchester. Why would I use you over a Manchester agency?
Only if you like what we build. There are good agencies in Manchester and some of them are worth their fees. What we do differently is build your site before you pay anything, then send you the link. If it is not better than what you have, you have lost nothing but ten minutes on the phone. Everything after that runs over WhatsApp and video, which is how most of your customers talk to you anyway.
Where Manchester is from us
Manchester is in the M postcode area, 181 miles north of our Southampton studio in a straight line. Stretford is the closest town to Manchester that we also cover, 4 miles away, then Urmston at 5 miles.
- Web Design in Stretford, 4 miles south-west
- Web Design in Urmston, 5 miles south-west
- Web Design in Sale, 5 miles south-west
- Web Design in Stockport, 6 miles south-east
- Web Design in Altrincham, 8 miles south-west
- Web Design in Bolton, 10 miles north-west
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