Manchester Web Design Company
Manchester web design for media, music and tech businesses driving the Northern Powerhouse. Ambitious regional brands need a site that looks the part and ranks nationally, so we build fast, structured websites that give Manchester companies reach well beyond the M60.
Real Mojo Dojo clients, on the record.
Trusted by 1,500+ brands across 81 industries
Websites for ten boroughs and a young, fast-moving market.
Greater Manchester formed 40,892 new companies in 2024 and ended the year with a record 251,769 registered. Between 2015 and 2023 it was the UK's fastest growing sub-regional economy. That churn means two kinds of web design work: first sites for new firms that need to look established from day one, and rebuilds for older businesses suddenly facing sharper, newer competitors.
It is also not one market. The city region is ten boroughs, and 68% of its output comes from four of them: Manchester, Salford, Trafford and Stockport. A firm in Bolton or Wigan serves different customers, with different budgets, from one in Spinningfields or Altrincham. The City of Manchester's median age is 31, so many visitors arrive on a phone and leave just as quickly if the page stalls. Design choices have to reflect who is actually visiting.
Buyers here can also compare several capable agencies, thanks to the largest creative cluster outside the capital. We think that is healthy. You get a fixed, itemised scope, Adobe XD designs to approve before development, and a build on the platform that suits you: WordPress for services, Shopify or BigCommerce for retail, Magento or PrestaShop for complex catalogues, all with SEO foundations included.
For the wider picture across the country, see Web Design UK. We also cover London. Related Manchester services include WordPress Development, Shopify Development and SEO. Everything else we do here is listed under Manchester services.
Web design in Manchester: a growing, crowded market.
Figures from GMCA, Companies House reporting and Marketing Manchester, each credited below.
Industries we help in Manchester.
Six sectors in the city region, and what their websites need to do.
Financial, business and professional services
Around 23% of the workforce in 2020. We build credible sites for accountants, lawyers and advisers with clear service pages, people profiles and enquiry routes.
Digital, cyber and AI
Product and company sites for a £5 billion tech ecosystem, with documentation, demo flows and CMS blocks your team can reuse.
Creative and media businesses
Portfolio sites with fast video and case study templates for studios around MediaCityUK and the Northern Quarter.
Health innovation and clinics
Accessible, regulated-sector sites for medtech firms along the Oxford Road Corridor and private clinics across the boroughs.
Hospitality, retail and events
Booking and ecommerce sites that hold up during the Christmas Markets, Parklife and the September student arrival.
Manufacturing and low carbon
Capability and product catalogue sites for advanced materials firms, retrofit specialists and green consultancies chasing B2B leads.
Ready for a Manchester website that keeps up with the market?
Tell us about your business and where your customers are. We will send an itemised recommendation on platform, scope and timeline.
Websites that convert, not just look good.
Real figures from Mojo Dojo client case studies, where site structure, speed and conversion paths were part of the work.
Your website has seconds to earn the next click.
With new competitors launching every week, your site has to look established, load instantly and speak to the borough your customer is in.
An older site against brand-new rivals
Tens of thousands of companies launch each year, often with modern sites that make established firms look dated by comparison.
Established credibility, modern delivery
A refreshed brand system and build that keeps your history and reviews front and centre while matching newer rivals on speed and design.
A clumsy mobile experience
Layouts built for desktop first break on the devices most people browse on.
Seamless on every device
Our designs ensure a seamless user experience across desktop and mobile devices, proven by responsive and browser testing before launch.
Every update needs a developer
Small content changes turn into tickets, delays and invoices.
An intuitive backend you control
Our intuitive backend management system makes it easy for you to make quick updates and changes as needed, and we train your team to use it.
A beautiful site nobody finds
Design without search architecture leaves you invisible where buyers are looking.
SEO built in from day one
Semantic structure, schema markup, page speed optimisation and analytics configured as standard on every build.
A city-centre site for a ten-borough market
Customers search Stockport, Bolton, Salford or Altrincham, and a site that only talks about the city centre misses them.
Pages for every borough you serve
Borough and town pages designed into the structure, with messaging adjusted for the city centre, the south and the northern towns.
Platforms we build on.
We are platform-agnostic. A start-up's first site, a manufacturer's catalogue and a hospitality group each need a different CMS, so we recommend based on your goals, scale and requirements.
WordPress. The world's most popular CMS, powering 43% of all websites. We have built over 1,500 WordPress sites since 2008, from small businesses to enterprise-scale platforms with complex custom post types and advanced SEO architecture.
Shopify. The ecommerce platform built for growth. We design conversion-optimised Shopify stores with custom theme development, app integrations, and SEO-first architecture that turns browsers into buyers from day one.
BigCommerce. A scalable SaaS ecommerce platform with built-in SEO tools, multi-channel selling, and enterprise-grade features. Ideal for rapidly growing stores that need power without the complexity of a self-hosted solution.
Magento. Enterprise-grade ecommerce for complex product catalogues, multi-store environments, and high-volume transactional requirements. Magento gives you total flexibility when your business has outgrown simpler platforms.
PrestaShop. A lightweight, open-source ecommerce platform with a global community since 2008. PrestaShop is well-suited for businesses that need a cost-effective, customisable storefront without the overhead of enterprise platforms.
Custom Development. Sometimes no off-the-shelf platform fits. Our development team builds fully bespoke web applications and headless CMS solutions for businesses with unique functional requirements that standard platforms cannot satisfy.
Our web design methodology.
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Brainstorming
You will meet with the development team to brainstorm and provide a brief of your online design requirements, vision and objectives. A feasibility study follows, with a project plan that gives you a better understanding of your target audience and the competitive landscape. Covers: understanding your target audience, choice of a custom CMS, the architecture design of your website, and finalisation of website feature requirements.
User Experience and User Interface
Mojo Dojo's designers create a fluid UX and UI experience with on-brand visualisations of your website in Adobe XD. Covers: incorporating your brand into the design, website layouts designed in Adobe XD, review of the layouts, and finalisation of navigation and design layout.
Custom Management System Development
The conversion from UX/UI design to a content management system takes the longest time in the project. The CMS is industry compliant, with support available from Mojo Dojo or the online community. Covers: custom development, calls to action, plugins, extensions and apps, SEO integration, and framework.
Testing Process
Before launching the final product, we perform thorough technical and user acceptance testing to ensure a high-quality, user-friendly website. Covers: responsive design testing, browser testing, functional requirements testing, and usability testing and improvements.
Training and Support
After launch, we run a website training session with your staff on navigating the content management system, in person or online. Ongoing support is available to enhance or edit the website on request. Covers: website backend training, in-person or online training, dedicated support, and phone or email support.
Website Maintenance
We highly recommend regular website maintenance to improve the security of your website. Regular updates add new features and functionality and reduce the risk of being hacked. Covers: updating the CMS and database to the latest version, updating plugins, extensions and apps, and regular backups of the website.
Get your free website design audit.
Share your URL and within 48 hours we will review your website design, mobile experience, page speed and conversion paths against newer competitors. No calls, no obligations.
Our five-stage development process.
Each project passes through five main stages with a fixed, itemised scope. We understand your audience and competitors, plan the site around them and turn concepts into draft designs for your approval. It is a discipline refined across 1,500+ projects in 81 verticals.
Brainstorm
We define your target audience, select the right CMS, map the information architecture, and identify the features and integrations your site needs to compete and convert.
UX/UI Design
We create high-fidelity wireframes in Adobe XD, incorporating your brand identity, navigation logic, and conversion-focused layouts. You review and approve before a single line of code is written.
CMS Development
Custom theme and plugin development, CTAs, SEO integration, schema markup, page speed optimisation, and framework configuration. Built to spec, not templated.
Testing
Responsive testing across devices, cross-browser compatibility, functional QA, form submission flows, page speed benchmarking, and usability review before any site goes live.
Training & Support
We train your team to manage the backend confidently. Ongoing support, maintenance packages, and performance optimisation ensure your site stays fast, secure, and competitive long after launch.
Areas we serve in Manchester.
We work remotely with businesses in all ten boroughs, over video calls with shared staging and reporting. In and around the city centre that includes Ancoats, Spinningfields and the Northern Quarter, with Salford, Eccles and Trafford nearby, and suburbs such as Didsbury, Chorlton, Stretford, Sale, Wythenshawe and Altrincham to the south.
We also build for firms in Stockport and Cheadle, Tameside and Ashton-under-Lyne, and in the northern towns of Bolton, Bury, Prestwich, Oldham, Rochdale and Wigan, planning a page for each area a business covers.
Selected results.
Featured work from across our client portfolio, shown as examples of the approach and not as results for businesses in this city.
“Their team understood our business before we even had to explain it. Enquiries are up 250% and the quality is better than ever.”
The framework we use to build websites that sell.
Most websites are built by people who think about how they look. This one is about how they sell: the funnel, the proposition, and the landing page, in the order you should work on them.
Send me the Website Playbook →
Free. 14 pages. In your inbox. Magic-link delivery, it arrives in about two minutes, and there's no sales call attached to reading it.
Do you work with Manchester businesses?
Yes. We work with them remotely, with discovery sessions, design reviews and CMS training on video calls, a shared staging site you can check at any stage, and shared reporting on performance and enquiries after launch.
We are a new company. What should our first website include?
Keep it focused: a clear homepage, one page per core service, an about page with real people, proof such as early reviews or case studies, and an easy contact route. We build it on a platform that can grow, with SEO and analytics set up from launch, so you are not rebuilding in a year.
How do you compare with other agencies in the area?
You should compare several, and we make that easy. You get a fixed, itemised proposal, designs to approve before development, and clear ownership of the site and its content. Our work is backed by 1,500+ websites built since 2008 and 94% client retention.
How long does a new website take to build?
Most projects land between 6 and 12 weeks from signed scope to live launch. Simple brochure sites on WordPress can be done in 4 weeks. Complex ecommerce builds with custom functionality or data migrations run 12 to 16 weeks. We set a realistic timeline at the start and hold to it with weekly progress updates.
Which platform is right for my business?
It depends on your goals. WordPress is the right choice for most content-heavy businesses, professional services firms, and brands that want maximum SEO flexibility. BigCommerce suits mid-market retailers that are scaling fast. Magento is for enterprise ecommerce with complex catalogue requirements. We give you an honest recommendation based on your specific situation, not on what is most profitable for us to build.
Do you include SEO in your web design projects?
Yes, always. Every site we build includes on-page SEO setup as standard: semantic HTML structure, schema markup, XML sitemap, Robots.txt, canonical tags, page speed optimisation, and Google Analytics 4 configuration. For clients wanting ongoing SEO campaigns post-launch, we offer integrated web design and SEO retainers that give you a single, coordinated team across both disciplines.
What happens after the website launches?
We include a 30-day post-launch support window on all projects. During that period we fix any bugs or inconsistencies at no charge. After that, clients can move onto a monthly maintenance retainer that covers updates, backups, security monitoring, and priority support. We also offer ongoing SEO retainers to help the site rank and convert over time.
What is the difference between web design and web development?
Web design is how your site looks, reads and flows: brand, layout, navigation and user experience, which we map in Adobe XD. Web development is the build: turning the approved design into a working CMS with custom functionality, integrations, SEO and speed optimisation. We deliver both as one project with one team, so nothing gets lost in the handover.
Will I be able to update the website myself?
Yes. Every site comes with an intuitive backend management system, and after launch we run a training session with your staff, in person or online, covering how to edit pages, add content and manage the CMS. Dedicated phone and email support is there if you get stuck.
Can you redesign or rebrand my existing website?
Yes. We handle CMS redesigns, redevelopments and rebranding projects. Depending on where you are in your branding lifecycle, we scope the work and show you what your brand will look like on completion before development starts, and we protect existing search rankings during the rebuild.
Will my new website work on mobile?
Yes. Every design is responsive and tested before launch across devices and browsers, alongside functional requirements testing and usability review, so visitors get a seamless experience on desktop, tablet and mobile.
Why choose Mojo Dojo for web design?
We have built 1,500+ websites since 2008 across 81 verticals, we are platform-agnostic so we recommend the CMS that fits your goals, and we build SEO and conversion tracking in from day one. Our clients stay with us: 94% client retention and a 4.7/5 average rating across 200+ reviews.
Get your free website design audit.
Share your URL and within 48 hours we will review your website design, mobile experience, page speed and conversion paths against newer competitors. No calls, no obligations.