STRANDcreative

Based in South Manchester, STRANDcreative is a small web design studio with more than 20 years of experience, working with businesses ranging from local service providers and sports clubs to retail and e-commerce brands. Its portfolio includes companies such as Sally Montague, Ezili Swim, Sale Harriers Running Club and Cheshire Bifolds, reflecting a client base of independent businesses and organisations across the region. The team positions itself around combining design, development, local search visibility, and ongoing technical support under one roof, rather than offering design in isolation. The agency's core offering covers website design, custom and template-based development, and e-commerce build-outs on Shopify and WooCommerce, including store migrations for businesses moving from physical retail to online sales. Development work is carried out using PHP, HTML and JavaScript, either coded from scratch or built on established templates depending on project needs, with an emphasis on a transparent, collaborative process. Local SEO is offered as a distinct service aimed at helping new and existing businesses get found by nearby customers rather than relying solely on a website launch. STRANDcreative also provides hosting on virtual cloud servers, alongside ongoing support intended to keep client sites secure, fast and reliably online. Services are typically bundled, with design, build, hosting and search visibility presented as connected stages of a single client relationship.