Website Design Manchester.
As an experienced web design agency, Blue Whale Media understands the importance a professional website can have to your business. By remaining ahead of our competitors, we can soundly say that we are the best choice for website design in the North West. Our websites are not only aesthetically pleasing but are also designed for vast user experience and functionality. Whether it’s an extensive eCommerce store or a simple brochure website, we always keep our eye on the small details that work together to complete your website.
Blue Whale Media has a combined experience of more than 50 years as a professional website design company, servicing various clients in various industries, from small, local businesses to nationwide and international companies. When you choose Blue Whale Media for your website design requirements, you can be sure of a completely bespoke and tailored approach to your project – we believe your website should be just as unique as your business is.
Let us handle your requirements, explore the best web design Manchester has to offer!
Web Design Manchester Services.
Bespoke Websites
When it comes to creating a professional website, we know that a singular approach does not work. A website designed by our team is always a custom design, coded and built with your business needs in mind. Our team of professional website designers are experienced users of a range of web design methods and specialise in brochure website design built on WordPress, which is the number one open-source software for website design. This method gives our highly qualified team the means to create functionally advanced and aesthetically pleasing websites.
Unique Solutions
Whether it’s a brand new customised website or a simple revamp of your existing website, we will always have a tailored web design solution available for you. Our team of local web designers can take your unique website requirements and turn them into a reality to help establish and grow your business online. We specialise in making sure that your website is visually appealing to the user whilst remaining technically appealing to the search engines.
Our Web Design Philosophy.
Our websites are also created to be technically superior and scalable, evident by our use of on-page search engine optimisation for all clients. As a digital agency, we aim to grow your business online correctly, which is why all of our websites are optimised by our in-house team of search engine optimisation experts, ensuring your website not only looks good but can actually be found by your customers.
We always create all of our websites in PDF design first. You will work alongside our team of Graphic Designers to ensure that your website portrays the perfect look for your company.
We develop all our websites on a private development website meaning that our customers get to see the complete website and review the functionality before the website goes live.
We also feel that our clients should know how to make simple amendments to a website for marketing purposes and general website maintenance, like changing content or an image. With this in mind, we chose to develop a training portal to which you will get access. The portal holds all sorts of training videos to watch and use to help you learn how to use and edit your website.
Our Web Design Process.
A bespoke website is the result of extensive collaboration. When we undertake a new web design project, your website is designed by our graphics team working in conjunction with our web design team and marketing team to ensure a successful, visible & SEO optimised website for your business. This is our way of ensuring that we don’t just create a visually pleasing website but one that is also ready for continued marketing and success.
WordPress Experts in Manchester.
WordPress was initially renowned for its blogging capabilities but in recent years has become the go-to choice when it comes to CMS for websites. WordPress currently powers a quarter of all websites internationally, the highest market share of any CMS. The open-source nature of WordPress means that it is constantly being updated by an active community with new features and plugins. These updates enhance the powerful capabilities of the CMS. The clean coding of WordPress means that search engines love WordPress, making WordPress developed websites easy to optimise for SEO. It comes as no surprise that WordPress is the favourite for many agencies, including our own web design company.
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Manchester Web Design Packages.
Here are our 3 new web design packages for you to choose from.
8 Page Brochure Website – Standard
£495 +vat
90 day contract and production time
8 custom pages + 3 legal pages
Logo design (if needed)
Client to supply/undertake the below within 48 hours of sign up
Complete our welcome pack
Complete the Logo form (if needed)
Design phone call
Client to supply below within 14 days of design checklist being provided
All images
All content
Completed legals
Breakdown of Package:
Hosting & Support: £40 +VAT
8 Page Brochure Website – Gold
£1000 +vat
90 day contract and production time
Same as 8 page standard
7 Pages of content written
Photoshop design of each page (2 sets of amendments per page)
One Set of post-production design amendments per page
Client to supply/undertake the below within 48 days of sign up
Same as 8 page standard
Client to supply/undertake the below within 14 hours of sign up
We will then create the photoshop design for each page with latin content.
The client will work with the designer to finalise the designs (two sets of amendments per page)
Once we have final designs the client will have a call with the content writer to go over the content for each page
Content sent to client to review in word and on the design (1 set of amendments to content)
Project will then be built by a designer & a live link sent to client for review
Client to revert final set of amendments for each page back to us within 48 hours
Client reviews final website
Breakdown of Package:
Hosting & Support: £40 +VAT
Retainer Websites
from £9,500 +vat
90 day contract
The size and complexity of the website will directly influence the costs involved with building the website*.
Websites built on a flexible open source platform that allows your site to grow and change with your business.
Custom amount of website pages with content written or current content rewritten.
Photoshop designs of each page with two sets of amendments, one set of post production design amendments per page.
Retainer websites are hand-built by our own in-house developers, retainer websites are superfast and of a bespoke design, like no other on the web.
As you add rich features such as images, videos and content, you can expect more leads and sales, but this comes with a higher build cost of course, sometimes two to three times this base cost.
A good lead generation website lasts around 2 years – so the cost including hosting often equates to around £500/mth over that time.
It is possible to build using off-the-shelf systems, but this approach does not generate the same visibility, leads or sales for your business or brand.
We perform top level security, maintenance and updates on a routine basis.
*Starting at £9,500, but price will vary depending on the spec of the website.
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