Serving Manchester · M1, M2, M3

Websites for Manchester businesses

Mackie Mayor in the old Smithfield, Afflecks down Oldham Street, and 23,541 new companies registered in 2025.

Manchester's a working city — the Northern Quarter's tile-fronted shops spilling off Oldham Street, the Victorian ironwork of Smithfield Market Hall turned into Mackie Mayor's food court on Eagle Street, and Castlefield's canal basin under the shadow of the Science and Industry Museum. Most of the small operators here — the cafés in Ancoats, the salons in Chorlton, the tradesmen running vans out of M13 and M14 — don't need a complicated website. They need a clean link to put on their Instagram, a number that rings on the right phone, and someone who'll swap a photo the same day.

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£25/month · anyone, anywhere

What you get

Your own URL, on its own domain
Hand-coded — no WordPress, no page builders
Basic on-page SEO, fast loads, mobile-first
Small content edits whenever you need them
No setup fee, cancel any month

Working with Manchester

Manchester was named the UK's most entrepreneurial city outside London in 2025, with 23,541 new companies registered in the year — 18.5 per 1,000 residents. The Northern Quarter is the most visible cluster: Afflecks Palace on Church Street houses dozens of independent traders under one roof, and Piccadilly Records has sold vinyl from the same street since 1997. Mackie Mayor took the recipe that worked at Altrincham Market and applied it to the restored Grade II Smithfield Market Hall, packing in a rotating line-up of independent food traders. The City Centre BID, run by CityCo, covers 400-plus retail and hospitality brands in the core. Out in the suburbs the picture's the same: independents on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury, family trades in Withington, and Manchester City Council actively funding district centre regeneration across Gorton and Moston Lane through 2026.

Every Manchester site is hand-coded, mobile-first, and shipped on its own domain. There's nothing for you to maintain — hosting, SSL, backups, updates and small content edits are all in the £25/month plan. You'll deal directly with me from brief to launch, by email or WhatsApp, in plain English.

Local economy

Real Manchester small businesses, not stock photos

Every Manchester brief lands somewhere on the same map of shops, salons, trades and indie operators. Here are some of the real Manchester businesses I've researched while writing this page — the kind of place a clean £25/month site is built for.

23,541 new companies registered in Manchester in 2025 — described as the UK's most entrepreneurial city outside London, with 18.5 new businesses per 1,000 residents

Some Manchester independents we'd happily sit next to

Mackie Mayor
independent food hall
Food hall in the restored Grade II listed Smithfield Market Hall, Eagle Street / Swan Street, M4 — run by the team behind Altrincham Market
Afflecks Palace
independent shopping emporium
Multi-storey indie shopping hub on Church Street in the Northern Quarter, tracing back to Affleck & Brown's 1860s drapery on Oldham Street
Piccadilly Records
independent record shop
Independent record shop trading from its current Northern Quarter location since 1997; repeatedly voted the UK's best indie record shop

Streets we know in Manchester

Oldham Street
Swan Street
Eagle Street
Church Street
Market Street
Deansgate
Wilmslow Road
Oxford Road

Neighbourhoods covered

Northern Quarter
Ancoats
Castlefield
Chorlton
Didsbury
Withington
Cheetham Hill
Gorton

Trade bodies & BIDs in Manchester

Why these industries cluster here

Independent retail and creative
The Northern Quarter was named and regenerated in the 1990s, and is regularly cited as one of the UK's top high streets for independent shops, anchored by Afflecks Palace and Piccadilly Records.
Music and night-time economy
Piccadilly Records has traded from the Northern Quarter since 1997 and the area has long anchored Manchester's indie music and club scene, with Castlefield Bowl running the Sounds of the City concert series.
Food and market halls
Mackie Mayor opened in the restored Grade II Smithfield Market Hall in 2017, run by the team behind Altrincham Market, and is now the most cited independent food hall in the city centre.
Business formation
Manchester was named the UK's most entrepreneurial city outside London in 2025, with 23,541 new companies registered in the year (18.5 per 1,000 residents).

Manchester City Council announced in November 2025 that its district centre regeneration programme had been expanded with continued investment in Withington, Gorton and Moston Lane high streets through 2026.

Where we work

Websites for Manchester and Greater Manchester

I'm based in London, build over email and WhatsApp, and ship the same £25/month plan to Manchester and every other town in Greater Manchester.

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Pricing

£25/month

One flat plan for every Manchester build — hosting, SSL, backups, updates and small content edits all included. No setup fee, no contract, cancel any month.

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How it works

From your first message to a live Manchester link in 1–2 weeks.

01You message me with a sentence on what you do.
02Quick call or text, you send your bundle.
03I build, you pay £25/month, you get the link.

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£25/month · 1–2 week build · cancel any month

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FAQs

Manchester web design — common questions

Do you cover the whole of Manchester, from the Northern Quarter out to Didsbury and Chorlton?

Yes — anywhere in M1 through M16, and out to the wider Greater Manchester postcodes if you want. I've worked with cafés, salons, tradesmen and small studios across the city. The £25/month plan and 1-2 week turnaround don't change with postcode.

Can you get my Manchester business ranking on Google?

No — and that's deliberate. I don't sell SEO, link building or ranking promises. What's included is sensible on-page basics (clean titles, fast loads, mobile-first build) so Google takes the site seriously. Anything beyond that is its own specialism and not in the £25/month fee.

Will you set up or manage my Google Business Profile?

No. Google Business Profile setup, claiming and management isn't something I do, and that's a deliberate choice. I'll happily link to it from the site once you've set it up yourself — it's free and you want it tied to your own number, not a third party's login.

I'm a tradesman running a van out of M13 / M14. Do I really need a website?

You probably don't need a five-page brochure. A one-page site with your services, your mobile number that rings straight through, and a few photos of finished jobs is usually enough. Hand-coded, mobile-first, live in about a week from the brief, then £25/month with same-day text and photo edits.

Do you build sites with online checkout for our products?

I do basic product showcase pages — a clean grid of items, photos and prices, and customers can ring or email to order. Full e-commerce with card processing and a basket isn't part of the £25/month plan. If you need that, it's a separate build, not a monthly add-on.

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