Valden · Web Design Studio

Valden is a website for an independent web design and development studio in Manchester. Prices are shown in the open, and the work is shown on the real sites it has launched.

Valden is a complete website for an independent web design and development studio in Ancoats, Manchester, built with Astro and designed around one promise: a fixed price, agreed up front.

A studio that sells websites needs a website that sells itself. The brief: show the work on the real sites, put the prices in the open, and make the first call easy to book.

We built it light and direct: one orange against paper and ink, a portrait hero that follows the cursor, and every section answering one question a buyer asks. Work is shown as the client's own homepage, prices sit in a table, and the process is laid out as twelve weeks. Built with Astro, GSAP and Lenis.

The home page opens on a portrait that turns to follow the cursor beneath a giant wordmark, then moves through a one-sentence introduction, the platforms the studio builds on, four launches shown on the real sites, five services, three fixed prices, a twelve-week process, client words and the questions people ask first.

Behind it sit twelve works with their own case pages, five service pages with prices and timelines, six ready-made templates, a blog of studio notes, an about page that tells the studio's story year by year, and a four-step enquiry form.

The type is Inter and Spline Sans Mono, the palette is paper, ink and a single orange, and the site is fully responsive.

A site that reads like the studio works: clear, quick to scan and honest about cost. Visitors can compare three fixed prices, open any of twelve case pages, and book a 30-minute call from any screen.