Web Design Wigan

Why Wigan firms need different things from a website

Businesses here rarely share one type of customer. A shop in the Grand Arcade or The Galleries competes for shoppers who check opening hours on their phones before walking into town. A leisure operator at Robin Park needs parking and booking to be obvious. A distribution company near the M6 and M58 often sells to buyers who will never visit, so the website does the explaining a sales visit used to do.

Trades firms and professional services face a different problem, which is trust. Someone looking for an electrician or an accountant wants to see who you are and what you have done. A site that hides the phone number below screens of slogans loses that person to the next result. Our web design work across Manchester follows one rule: answer the customer’s real questions first, then make the next step easy.

Working together between your premises and our M8 office

Most of a project needs no travel. We share designs on video calls, collect your wording in a shared Google Doc, and sort quick questions by phone, email or WhatsApp. You check each stage on a staging link, on your own phone.

If you prefer to meet, our office at Unit 3, 116 Bury New Road is roughly 40 to 50 minutes by road via the M61 or the A580, depending on traffic, and trains from Wigan North Western reach Manchester in roughly 30 to 40 minutes. We can also arrange to visit you, which helps when we need to photograph a showroom, yard or factory floor.

How the website gets built

Included when your site goes live

• A WordPress site in your name, with full admin access and the domain under your control
• Mobile layouts checked on real handsets, not just a resized browser window
• Enquiry and quote forms tested, with messages arriving where you want them
• Page titles, meta descriptions, headings, image alt text and an XML sitemap set up
• Google Analytics 4 and Google Search Console connected
• A short screen recording showing how to edit text, photos and opening times

What we test first on an existing Wigan business website

Many firms already have a site that is a few years old. Before suggesting a rebuild, we check whether a website redesign or a handful of fixes would do the job. These are the points we look at first.

• Phone and address Is the number tappable on mobile, and is the address written the same way as on your Google Business Profile?
• Service pages Does each main service have its own page, or is everything crammed onto one long page?
• Trade buyers For manufacturers and distributors, are spec sheets, delivery areas and account application forms easy to find?
• Loading time Uncompressed photos and piles of plugins slow most older sites. Largest Contentful Paint should be under 2.5 seconds on a phone, and our WordPress speed work can fix that on its own.
• Selling online To take orders, we compare a simple catalogue with full ecommerce website design.

Frequently asked questions

Websites for Leigh, Bolton and the wider area

We also build sites for firms in neighbouring towns: see web design in Leigh, web design in Bolton and our main Manchester web design page. For apps, signage and more, visit our local services page. Many firms order matching business cards too.

Tell us what your Wigan business does and what the website needs to achieve, and we will come back with a fixed quote. Request a website quote, call 0161 315 1151 or message us on WhatsApp at 07737 902425.