Fast, in a city full of slow
Heavy, animation-laden sites are the norm here and they cost their owners both visitors and rankings. Being genuinely quick is an underrated way to stand out.
Web design · Greater Manchester
Web design in Manchester
The most competitive agency market in the north. Which is exactly why so many Manchester businesses are paying for style over substance.
- 100+
- UK businesses
- 70%
- rank page one locally
- 1 week
- from brief to live
Manchester businesses
Where the marketing is often better than the thing being marketed.
Manchester has the deepest digital and creative economy outside London, and the standard of visual work coming out of the city is genuinely high. The unintended consequence is a lot of beautiful websites that are slow, vague about what the business actually sells, and invisible in search for anything but the company name.
If you are competing in this market, the opportunity is not to out-design anyone. It is to be the business whose site loads instantly, says something concrete, and makes enquiring easy, while everyone else is animating their hero section.
What you actually get
What this means for a Manchester business.
Substance over showreel
Say what you sell, who it is for and what it costs. In a market trained on abstraction, specificity reads as confidence, because it is.
Without the agency overhead
You get a small studio an hour away rather than a floor of people in the Northern Quarter. Same craft, considerably less structure to pay for.
Where we work
Across Manchester and around it.
An hour across the Snake Pass, or the train if the weather is doing something. We work with businesses right across the area, including:
- City centre
- Salford
- Stockport
- Altrincham
- Didsbury
- Chorlton
- Sale
- Bury
- Bolton
- Oldham
- Trafford
- Ancoats
What it costs
Website projects start from £3k.
Most land between £5k and £9k depending on how much the site has to do. You get the exact number before anyone starts work, and it does not move unless you ask for something new.
Kind words
From businesses around the country.
“The team at Web Butler get 10/10 on all levels, from web design and maintenance, SEO to tech help, absolutely spot on.”
“They interpreted and executed my brief perfectly. I’d highly recommend Web Butler to anyone looking for a website that not only looks great but gets results.”
“Brilliant service from start to finish, looking forward to working with these guys in the future.”
Questions
What Manchester businesses ask.
Manchester is full of agencies. What is the argument for you?
That you would rather deal directly with the person building your site than with the people who manage the people building your site. That is genuinely the whole pitch. It suits some businesses very well and others not at all.
Can a fast, simple site really compete with a flashier one?
On the measures that pay you, usually yes. Visitors leave slow sites, search engines rank them lower, and a site nobody waits for cannot convert anyone. Good design and good performance are not opposites, but when a project has to choose, most agencies choose the wrong one.
Do you come to Manchester?
For a kickoff or anything that genuinely needs a room, yes, it is about an hour. Day to day it is calls and shared screens, which is how most of our out-of-town work runs.
Ready for a website that earns its keep?
Tell us about the business and what you need the site to do. We’ll come back with a straight answer, usually the same working day.
Trusted by 100+ UK businesses. 70% of our sites rank page one locally.