01 / 042025
Casa Ondara
Hotels, Mallorca
A booking-first site for six boutique houses, so guests book direct instead of through the agencies.
+38%direct bookings
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Valden, web design and development studio in Manchester
We design and build websites for brands that have outgrown their first one. Strategy, design, development and launch, from one studio in Manchester.
Start a projectAncoats, Manchester
Websites since 2016
Websites since 2016
A website is the firstmeeting with most ofyour customers. We makesure it goes well.
What we do
Websites and online stores, designed from a blank page and built on Framer, Webflow, Shopify or a custom stack. Then we look after them.
Who it's for
Hotels, makers, retailers and B2B companies whose site no longer matches the business, usually with a marketing team of two to twenty.
What you get
A site that loads in under two seconds, a CMS your team can run alone, and a fixed price before we start. About the studio
Selected work(41)
Four recent launches. Every screen is the live site we designed and built.
All 41 projects
02 / 042025
Arkel
Electric motorcycles, Glasgow
Launch site and a live configurator for a new electric motorcycle, built for test-ride bookings.
6,400builds configured at launch
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03 / 042024
Maison Verel
Fragrance, Paris
A mobile-first Shopify Plus store that sells a fragrance by feeling first and price second.
3.4%conversion, up from 1.9%
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04 / 042026
Strade
Running footwear, Leeds
Headless store and drop pages the team can launch from Sanity in an afternoon.
11 daysto sell through the spring drop
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Five things we do well
Every project is one team, from first workshop to launch day and after.
All services01
Websites
Marketing sites designed from a blank page, on a CMS your team can run.
02Redesigns
A rebuild for the site that no longer matches the business, without losing your rankings.
03E-commerce
Shopify and headless stores that sell the product properly, from catalogue to checkout.
04Brand & motion
Type, colour, components and movement that carry the brand online.
05Care & growth
Updates, speed, testing and a named developer after launch.
Pricing, in the open
Business website6 to 8 weeks
from£18,000
A full marketing site designed from the ground up, on a CMS your team runs.
- Up to 8 custom-designed pages
- CMS set-up and training
- Motion and interaction
- Technical SEO and analytics
E-commerce store8 to 12 weeks
from£32,000
A store that sells the product properly, from catalogue to checkout.
- Product, collection and checkout design
- Shopify or headless build
- Payments, shipping and tax set-up
- Merchandising tools for your team
Custom buildScoped together
from£60,000
Larger platforms, configurators and long-running partnerships.
- Discovery and technical scoping
- Multi-collection content architecture
- Integrations and custom tooling
- A dedicated team after launch
Essential careRolling monthly
from£450/month
- Updates and security patches
- Uptime monitoring
- Two hours of changes
GrowthRolling monthly
from£1,400/month
- Six hours of design and build
- Monthly performance report
- A/B tests on key pages
EmbeddedRolling monthly
from£3,800/month
- A named designer and developer
- Weekly planning call
- Priority turnaround
Every project gets a fixed price after a 30-minute call. Prices exclude VAT.
Twelve weeks, start to launch
A typical business site. Stores and custom builds are scoped in the first week.
01 Weeks 1 to 2Discover
Workshops with your team, a look at the numbers and the competition, and a plain written brief we both sign off.
Design
Art direction first, then every page and state, designed in Figma and reviewed in the browser as a live prototype.
Build
Built on the platform that suits your team, with a content model, image pipeline and tests behind it.
04 Weeks 10 to 12Launch & grow
Redirects, tracking and a calm launch day. After that, care plans, reporting and steady improvements.
In their words
Founders and marketing leads on what changed after launch.
“Direct bookings were the whole brief. Nine months in, we pay the travel agents less and the site finally looks like the hotels.”
“They built a configurator that our engineers trust and our customers actually finish. Launch week was the quietest week we had.”
“Valden understood that a fragrance is sold by feeling first. The store reads like our boutique and converts nearly twice as well.”
“Every drop page now goes live from Sanity in an afternoon. No tickets, no developer on standby, no drama.”
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Questions, answered
Still deciding? A 30-minute call costs nothing and comes with a written recommendation.
Book a callSend a short note through the project form or email us. We reply within one working day, book a 30-minute call, and send a written proposal with a fixed price and timeline within a week.
Expect a two-hour workshop at the start, then a review every one to two weeks. We handle design, build, testing and launch. You bring the content decisions and final sign-off.
Most business sites take six to eight weeks and most stores eight to twelve. Larger builds are scoped in a paid discovery phase before we commit to dates.
Whichever suits the people who will run it. Framer and Webflow for marketing teams, Shopify for stores, and Next.js with Sanity when the site needs custom logic.
Yes. Every launch includes 30 days of fixes. After that, care plans start at £450 a month and cover updates, monitoring and small changes.
About half of our clients are in Europe and North America. We work across time zones with fixed weekly calls and a shared project channel.
Your next websitestarts with a30‑minute call.
Book the callBooking projects for spring 2027
hello@valden.studio · 0161 496 0418
hello@valden.studio · 0161 496 0418
