Website design · North West England
See your new website before you decide.
Most web designers will show you a mood board and ask for a deposit. We'd rather just build the thing and let you look at it. If you like it, we'll have a chat about it. If you don't, that's genuinely fine — you've not lost a penny or an afternoon.
An independent web design studio covering the North West.
The honest problem
Your customers looked you up
before they rang.
Nearly everyone has a look online before they walk in or ring up. If what they find is a Facebook page that stopped in 2019, they don't tell you it put them off — they just quietly try the next name on the list. That's the frustrating bit: you never find out about the job you didn't get.
01
It doesn't work on a phone
Most people will meet your business on a screen the size of their hand. If they have to pinch and zoom about just to find out whether you're open, they'll give up long before they find your number.
02
Nobody can find you
Google can't recommend what it can't read. No hours, no address, nothing describing what you actually do — and you stay invisible to people who were already looking for exactly your sort of business.
03
You can't change a word of it
Whoever built it moved on years ago and took the passwords with them. So the prices are out of date, the Christmas hours are still up in March, and there's not a lot you can do about it.
Why there's nothing to lose
We do the work first.
We're a new studio, and we'd sooner earn your business than talk you into it. So we do the work first — no deposit, no contract to sign, no meeting to sit through. You get to judge the finished thing, in your own time, with no one stood over your shoulder.
If it's not right, tell us and it disappears. That's the whole risk to you.
How it works
Three steps, and only
one of them is yours.
We build it
We go and find out about you properly — what you do, where you are, what your customers already say about you — and design something around it. No brief to write, no questionnaire, no two-hour workshop.
You look at it
You get a private link to the real thing, working, on your own phone. Not a PDF, not a slide deck. Have a proper look, show it to whoever you trust, and tell us what you'd change.
You decide
Like it? We'll agree a price, get it live, and it's yours. Don't like it? Tell us and we'll take it down — no awkwardness, no invoice, no hard feelings.
What's included
Everything, plainly.
No tiers, no add-ons, no upsell halfway through. This is what a website from us comes with.
Built for phones first
Designed on a small screen and tested there, because that's where nearly all your visitors will be.
Findable on Google
Your address, hours, services and area written out in the way search engines need to read them.
Genuinely fast
Pages that load before your customer gets impatient, even on a bad signal in a car park.
Easy to get hold of you
Tap-to-call, directions that open straight into maps, and an enquiry form that lands in your inbox.
Secure and looked after
Proper certificate, kept up to date, backed up. If something breaks, it's our problem to fix.
Changes without the runaround
New prices, new hours, a better photo — email us and it's done. No ticket system, no hourly minimum.
Beyond the basics
If you need it to do more,
we build that too.
Plenty of businesses just want a site that says who they are and how to reach them — and that's a perfectly good website. But if yours needs to actually do something, we're not limited to brochure pages.
Bookings & appointments
Fill your diary without the phone tag, using the slots and rules you actually work to.
Ordering & payments
Sell direct, take deposits, or get paid up front — built in properly, not a PayPal button bolted on.
Shops & product listings
A real catalogue with stock, options and delivery, whether that's six products or six hundred.
Customer accounts
Logins, member-only pages and subscriptions — handy if you run a club, a course, or anything by membership.
Works with what you use
Your till, diary, accounts or CRM. If there's a way in, we can usually connect it so you're not typing things twice.
Something else entirely
A quote calculator, a job tracker, a portal for your regulars. Describe it and we'll tell you honestly whether we can build it.
Questions
The things people ask first.
What does it cost?
It depends what you need — a single page for a sole trader isn't the same job as a restaurant with a full menu and a booking system. We'll look at what you're after, give you a price, and that's the price. No hourly billing, and no invoice at the end that's bigger than the number we told you.
Do I really see it before I pay?
Yes, properly. We build it first and send you a link. Open it on your phone, show it to your other half, sleep on it for a week if you like. Nothing's due until you've seen exactly what you're getting and told us you want it.
Is the site mine?
Yes. If you'd rather move it elsewhere down the line, we'll hand over the files and help you shift it — we don't hold anyone's website hostage. If you already have a domain we'll get the site live on it; if you haven't got one yet, we'll talk you through choosing one, registered in your name.
How long does it take?
Days, not months. Most sites are ready for you to look at within a week, and live not long after you've said yes.
I already have a website. Is it worth changing?
Maybe not. If yours works nicely on a phone and brings you enquiries, keep it — genuinely. Send us the address and we'll tell you straight. We'd much rather say "yours is fine" than take money for something you didn't need.
What if I want changes later?
Just email us and we'll sort it. Prices change, hours change, you finally get a decent photo of the shopfront — that's all normal, and it shouldn't cost you a call-out fee every time.
Get in touch
Tell us about your business.
Every business is different, so there's no calculator on this page. Drop us a line about what you do — a couple of sentences is plenty — and we'll come back to you with a proper quote, usually the same day.
hello@frontagestudio.co.ukNo obligation, and no sales call unless you want one.