Web design in Chester for businesses that want to be noticed.
Chester buyers compare you side by side with three other tabs before they ever get in touch. Professional firms on Chester Business Park, independents in the Rows, trades working across Cheshire and North Wales: all of them are judged on one screen. If your site looks tired or your brand looks home-made, you lose the job before the conversation starts.
We are the web design agency Chester businesses use when they want a website and a brand that work as one. Strategy first, then a custom, mobile-first website built to win enquiries, with the brand identity behind it if you need one. Design that gets you noticed. Strategy that drives growth.
What you get
- A website built around how your customers decide. Custom, mobile-first web design with a clear path to enquiry on every page. Web design
- WordPress your team can run. A CMS you can update without calling us for every change, plus hosting, support and maintenance. Web development
- Local SEO structure from day one. Service pages, location signals, titles and internal links planned at the strategy stage, not bolted on after launch.
- Redesigns that keep your rankings. We map your existing pages, keep what ranks and redirect what moves. Website redesign
- Online shops. Ecommerce built to sell, not just to list products. Ecommerce web design
- Campaign pages. Focused landing pages for ads and launches. Landing page design
- A brand to match, if yours is holding you back. Strategy, logo suite, colour, type and guidelines designed as one identity. Every logo we create is part of a full brand identity. See our branding agency in Chester page.
Why web design in Chester is a tougher job
- A city that sets a high visual bar. The walls, the Rows and the independents around them compete on character. A generic template site disappears.
- Visitors decide on a phone. Tourism and hospitality trade is won or lost on a mobile screen, often within a few streets of your door. Hospitality and restaurants
- Big city rivals. Chester firms pitch against Manchester and Liverpool agencies and their clients. Looking established is non-negotiable.
- Two markets at once. Many Chester businesses sell into North Wales as well as Cheshire. We can build bilingual Welsh and English sites and identities, working with an experienced Welsh-language translator, when your customers need it.
Web and brand under one roof
Most Chester web design starts with a template and a logo someone made years ago. We fix the foundation first. When the brand and the website are built together, the message, the look and the path to enquiry all pull in the same direction. That is exactly what we did for Elevate Accountancy: brand identity and website, designed as one.
If you only need the site, we build to your existing brand. If you only need the brand, start with our Chester branding page.
Why a Wrexham studio for Chester web design
- You brief the founder. Robert Salisbury spent years in Manchester advertising agencies before starting Salisbury Media. Big agency thinking, without the city-centre overheads or the account manager in between.
- Close enough to meet. Our studio in Bangor-on-Dee is a short drive from Chester. We meet at your premises, at the studio or on video.
- Brand, web and social in one place. One partner from strategy to launch and beyond.
- Honest about where we are. We are not in Chester and we won’t pretend to be. We are close, and we are good.
Proof
- Elevate Accountancy: brand identity and website for a cold start that grew to £1.7m in sales in the first three years. Read the case study
- Live broadcast sport: a four-year retainer with TNT Sports and direct work for BT Sport, including live, reactive content during fixtures.
- Club social templates: season-long social media template suites for Rangers and Warrington Wolves, a social template suite and ad hoc social content for Wrexham AFC, and ad hoc social content for Liverpool FC.
- Identities built from scratch: logo and identity for Gusto D’Italia, and full identities for Bond Apparel and The Social Platter Co.
“Salisbury Media transformed our ideas into a powerful brand and high performing website that truly represents Elevate Accountancy. They went beyond design, delivering SEO that keeps us ranking locally and generating leads every day.”
Rated 5.0 on Google from 12 reviews. Read our reviews
Start with a free video review
Send me your website and I’ll record you a free, personal video review of it. What’s working, what’s costing you enquiries and what I’d fix first. No pitch deck, no hard sell. I only do 5 a month, because I do every one myself.
From there, every project is scoped to what you need. No packages forced on you, and no prices until we know the job.
Salisbury Media Group Ltd, 9 Althrey Court, Overton Road, Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham LL13 0DA. Working with businesses across Chester, Cheshire and North Wales.
FAQ
Do you have an office in Chester?
No. Our studio is in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham, a short drive from Chester. We meet at your premises, at the studio or on video.
Are you a web design agency or a branding agency?
Both. We design websites and brand identities, and we are at our best when we do them together, so your site and your brand say the same thing.
Can you redesign my site without losing my Google rankings?
Yes. We map your existing pages, keep the content that ranks and set up redirects for anything that moves, so a redesign builds on your search visibility instead of resetting it.
Will I be able to update the website myself?
Yes. We build on WordPress with a CMS your team can use, and we offer hosting, support and maintenance after launch if you want it.
Can you just design a logo?
Every logo we design is part of a brand identity, because a logo on its own doesn’t give you the colour, type and rules to use it properly. See branding in Chester.
How much does a website cost?
It depends on the job. Every project is scoped to what you need, and you get a clear proposal before any design work starts. The best first step is a free video review of your current site.
Do you work outside Chester?
Yes. Across Cheshire, North Wales, Shropshire and the UK.
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