CFC Wedding Lists · Retail
A gift-list platform built around a 50-year-old business
0.78s
First contentful paint
Areas · Cheshire
Web Design Cheshire
By SimonMeasured 4 September 2026
Macclesfield, Wilmslow and Knutsford are one buying market with three sets of search terms, and every one of them is winnable. Here is the data for all three.
Pricing
from £500
for the build, then from £50 a month hosting & care.
The same three numbers wherever you are. No setup fee, no minimum term.
What a website costsCybrial is a Manchester studio working across the North West, and east Cheshire is a short drive. The search data below was pulled first-hand for all three towns.
The work, and who it is for in Cheshire
East Cheshire is professional services, consultancies, healthcare, independent retail and hospitality, plus a large number of one and two-person businesses serving a wealthy local population. The website is usually a credibility document and a booking route rather than a catalogue: a handful of pages, high design expectations, and very little tolerance for a site that is slow or awkward on a phone.
That profile suits a small studio well, and it is worth saying plainly what it does not need. Almost none of these businesses need a custom build. What they need is a bespoke design on a platform they can edit, structured so that each service has a page of its own, and somebody keeping it current afterwards. That is a £500 to £2,000 job, and hosting and care from £50 a month.
Where something genuinely bespoke is warranted, CFC Wedding Lists is the example on this site — a gift-list platform written from scratch because two audiences use the same data for opposite reasons, and no off-the-shelf shop models that.
And before any website work at all: the Google Business Profile. It is free, it takes an afternoon, and for a local business it decides the map pack that sits above every result a website can win. That is an awkward thing to put on a web designer’s page and it is still the right first move.
What you get, and what it costs
The same three numbers as everybody else, published rather than quoted on request: from £500 for the build, from £50 a month for hosting and care, and growth blocks from £250 a month if and when the site should start earning more. No setup fee, no management fee, no percentage of ad spend, and no minimum term on anything.
- A bespoke build rather than a page-builder assembly, so the site is fast on a phone rather than fast on your laptop.
- A page for each service and each area you actually sell in, so every search has somewhere of its own to land instead of competing with the homepage.
- Editable by you, with a walkthrough at handover.
- The domain in your name and the hosting in your account, with a full working copy if you ever leave.
- Titles, structure and metadata written around the searches your customers actually run — not around a keyword dump.
The nearest comparable work
CFC Wedding Lists.
A free wedding gift-list service run by a family furniture retailer trading since 1972. We built the list-creation, list-finding and gifting journey as a custom platform rather than bolting it onto a shop.
Straight answers
Questions about working in Cheshire.
Why is this one page for three towns?
Because they are one buying market and none of them individually carries enough search volume to deserve a separate page. Three thin pages would be worse for you and worse for Google than one that covers the market properly — the combined data for all three is on this page.
Which Cheshire term is easiest to rank for?
Wilmslow is the softest. Knutsford is the biggest prize — more searching, still barely contested. Macclesfield is the largest market of the three and slightly harder than either, though none of them is what you would call competitive.
Do you work across Cheshire?
Yes — Cybrial works across the North West from Manchester, and east Cheshire is a short drive. There are clients in Greater Manchester, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and the prices and terms are the same wherever you are.
What does a website cost?
From £500 for the build and from £50 a month for hosting and care. For most professional services firms here, a five to ten page site genuinely lands at the bottom of that range.
Building something in Cheshire?
Tell me what you sell, who buys it, and what the current site is not doing. You get a straight reply from Simon — what I would build, what it costs, and what I would do first.