Web Design RochdaleWeb Design Rochdale

The work, and who it is for in Rochdale

The Rochdale work here is Roch Sweets, and it is a useful illustration because the difficulty was not the design. Sweets are bought by the handful, not the SKU, and a standard shop — one product, one price, one add-to-basket — does not model "a bit of this, a bit of that, filled to the gram". So the pick-and-mix builder was written as a first-class feature and a thousand-line catalogue was structured into the categories people actually shop by.

It still loads in 1.27 seconds complete, with first content at 0.86 seconds and zero layout shift, on a photography-led page carrying 71 requests — measured on the live site on 4 September 2026.

Rochdale is about fifteen miles from where I work, so if it is easier to sit down and go through it than to trade emails, that is a short drive rather than a video call.

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.