Web design in Alderley Edge
Alderley Edge trades on how things look, and the website has to match the shopfront. MarketingDone4U designs, writes and hosts sites for village businesses from a fixed £99 a month, five minutes up the road in Wilmslow. Nothing is payable at the start, and a Starter build launches in 7 working days.
A village where presentation is the whole game
Alderley Edge is one of the wealthiest villages in the country and it behaves like one. The boutiques, restaurants, wealth managers, aesthetic clinics and property firms along London Road are competing for clients who notice detail for a living. Get the tone slightly wrong and you are dismissed before anyone reads the second paragraph.
That pressure is unusual for a place with a few thousand residents. Most village businesses can get away with a serviceable website. Here the website is often the first impression of a brand that charges premium prices, and it has to carry that weight without looking as though it cost a fortune to produce.
There is also nowhere to hide. A restaurant, a clinic and a wealth manager sit within a few hundred metres of each other and draw on the same well-heeled catchment, which pushes standards up and makes a tired website unusually conspicuous.
Build my planThe gap between a pretty site and a working one
We are regularly asked to replace sites that look beautiful and do nothing. Enormous hero images, a scroll that reveals a single line at a time, and no straight answer anywhere about what the business does or how to book. The design won an argument in a meeting. The customer lost patience.
A site that earns its keep still looks handsome, but it makes the practical things easy. Services stated plainly. Prices or a clear route to a price. Location, parking, opening hours. One obvious next step on every page. Every plan we build includes a contact form and basic SEO so that groundwork is never optional.
How to judge whether the spend is working
Ask a supplier how you will know the website is doing its job. If the answer involves impressions and vague talk of exposure, keep asking. Useful measures are simpler: how many people arrived, where from, how many made contact, and which pages they read before they did.
Growth and Pro include GA4 setup for that reason, and Growth adds a conversion review once there is real traffic to look at. Judge us on whether enquiries improve and whether we can explain why. Nobody can guarantee rankings or lead volumes, and any Cheshire agency that offers to is selling you something else.
Web design packages.
One fixed monthly price takes care of design, build, all copywriting, hosting and the SSL certificate. Starter is 5 pages with one revision round. Growth is the one most clients pick, giving up to 8 pages, a lead-focused layout, full measurement and 45 minutes of monthly edits. Pro runs to 12 pages with testimonials, FAQs, a blog and a quarterly review, which suits established practices with a lot to say.
Starter
- 5 page website (Home, About, Contact, 1 Service, 1 Location)
- Copy included for the first 5 pages
- Mobile-friendly design
- Contact form
- Basic SEO setup
- Google Search Console setup
- Hosting and SSL included
- 1 revision round
- 30 minutes of small monthly edits
- Delivered in 7 working days
Growth
- Everything in Starter, plus:
- Up to 8 pages
- Up to 3 service or location pages
- Stronger lead generation layout
- Google Analytics setup
- Basic conversion review
- 45 minutes of small monthly edits
Pro
- Everything in Growth, plus:
- Up to 12 pages
- Up to 6 service or location pages
- Blog or news section setup
- FAQ section
- Testimonial section
- Stronger internal linking
- 60 minutes of small monthly edits
- Quarterly website improvement review by email
Hosting and SSL are included in every website plan. Anything outside the plan is £50 an hour, agreed with you first.
Prices shown are the current set fees. Your agreed price stays fixed while you keep the service. Final package details are confirmed before you buy.
How the work runs, week by week
The opening fortnight is the build. We agree a page list, write every word, design the pages and hand you a revision round before anything is published. Starter sites are usually live inside 7 working days of sign-off. Growth and Pro take longer, because there is more to write and more structure to settle.
After launch it becomes maintenance and improvement. Monthly editing time covers new treatments, revised prices, staff arrivals and seasonal messaging: 45 minutes on Growth, 60 on Pro. Pro also brings a quarterly review, which is where we decide what the next three months of pages and posts should be doing. Work genuinely outside the plan is quoted at £50 per hour before it begins.
AI speed, human finish
Our position on this is public. Sites are built using AI for speed, refined by experts for quality, and that speed is the whole reason the monthly figure can sit where it does. The technology handles the first pass in hours rather than weeks. People handle everything that decides whether a brand looks expensive or cheap.
For Alderley Edge that second half matters more than anywhere else we work. Typography, spacing, the difference between confident copy and pushy copy, all of it gets a human eye before your clients see a pixel of it.
Five minutes from Wilmslow, and the county beyond
We are just up the road in Wilmslow on Altrincham Rd, which makes a site visit here a fifteen minute round trip. The same plans run west to Knutsford and east to Macclesfield, with the county view on our web design in Cheshire page.
The areas page lists everywhere we cover, and the web design service page sets out each plan in full. If you would rather talk it through, 0161 570 1668 reaches a person.
Less faff. More done.
Choose
Pick one service, or combine as many as your business needs.
Tell us
Answer a few simple questions so we understand what you do.
We do the work
Smart technology does the heavy lifting. Our experts finish it.
You grow
Turn better marketing into more enquiries and sales, without building your own team.
Works well with.
Ongoing SEO from £49 per month to keep your site climbing Google.
Google Ads from £89 per month per channel to bring buyers in from day one. Ad spend is separate.
Always-on content from £79 per month to build your audience and brand.
Branding
Logo, colour palette and brand assets from £199 one-off.
Frequently asked questions
Will a monthly-price website really look premium enough for Alderley Edge?
That is the right question to ask. Design quality is not set by the invoice size, it is set by who finishes the work. Every page is reviewed by a human designer and a copywriter before launch, and you get a full revision round to push back on anything that feels off-brand.
Do you write the copy or do I have to?
We write it, on every plan. You give us your services, your positioning and a sense of how you speak to clients, and we draft the pages. You review and change whatever you want during the revision round. Copywriting is included, not a line item.
Can the site show my work, my premises and my treatments?
Yes. Growth gives you up to 8 pages, which is usually enough for a boutique or clinic to give each main service proper room. Pro extends to 12 with testimonials, FAQs and a blog if you publish regularly.
How do I know the site is earning its keep?
Growth and Pro include GA4 setup, so you see visits, sources and which pages hold attention. Nobody can guarantee rankings or enquiry numbers, so we report the real figures and act on them rather than sell you adjectives.
What happens if I want to leave?
You can stop. The site is leased, so it stays with MarketingDone4U unless you buy it out, and your domain name is always yours. We tell people this before they sign, because a surprise here is a bad way to end a relationship in a village this small.
Your brand deserves better than a template
Tell us about your Alderley Edge business and we will show you what a properly finished site looks like at a fixed monthly price.
Start My JourneyPrefer to talk it through first? Call 0161 570 1668 or email hello@marketingdone4u.com.