Services · Website development · Fashion websites
Codeeo provides fashion website development Manchester businesses use for everything around the shop: corporate and group sites for fast growing online labels, careers pages that attract designers and buyers, trade portals for Cheetham Hill wholesalers, creator and collaboration programmes, and brand sites for Northern Quarter independents. Manchester has built a reputation for fashion companies that grow quickly. The website that worked at launch rarely fits the business three years later, and that is usually when they call us.
We build websites and web platforms that inform, recruit and generate enquiries. Checkout and store builds are a separate service, and we leave a working store alone unless you ask us to change it. Our team works with Manchester clients remotely, holding workshops and reviews over video call rather than in person.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the platform can include
For a Manchester online label, the store usually already exists on a commerce platform and works well. What is missing is everything else: a corporate site that explains the group to investors, suppliers and journalists; a careers site that can handle a steady flow of applications for design, buying, merchandising and warehouse roles; a place where creators apply to collaborate; and proper pages on ethical sourcing and supplier standards. For wholesalers in Cheetham Hill, the need is different again: a trade site where retailers across the UK and abroad can browse ranges, apply for an account and arrange a showroom visit. We build these as structured web platforms with clear editing permissions, so each department updates its own section without waiting on another. The capabilities below are combined differently for each client. Where a function already works well on another tool, we link to it rather than rebuilding it.
A site for the company behind the brands: what the group does, its brands, leadership, supplier standards, news and contact routes for media and partners. It sits on its own domain or a subdomain, kept separate from the consumer store so shopper traffic and corporate audiences each get the right pages.
Journalists, suppliers and partners find facts without searching the store.
Role listings by team and location, pages on head office, studio and warehouse life, and application forms that pass candidates to your applicant tracking system. Job pages carry JobPosting structured data so they can appear in job search results, and candidate data is handled under UK GDPR with clear retention rules.
A steadier flow of applicants for design, buying and operations roles.
Retailers apply for a trade account, your team approves them, and approved buyers see ranges, pack sizes, minimum orders and new arrivals. Visit requests for the showroom are captured with the buyer's business details. Pricing stays behind login, away from competitors on the same street.
Trade enquiries from across the UK without constant phone calls.
A programme page explaining how collaborations work, with an application form for creators to share their channels and audience, and a review queue for your marketing team. Disclosure expectations for paid partnerships under the CAP Code are set out clearly so creators know the rules before they apply.
Collaboration requests arrive organised and screened.
Pages covering factory lists, audit approach, modern slavery statement and materials policy, edited by your compliance team. Organisations above the turnover threshold in the Modern Slavery Act must publish an annual statement, and we give it a clear permanent home linked from the footer.
Policy documents that are easy to find and keep current.
For Northern Quarter shops and vintage sellers: a lively homepage, a feed of new arrivals photographed in store, event and pop up announcements, and clear directions. Built so a two person team can post new stock from a phone between customers.
Regulars check the site before they visit.
Landing pages for sample sales, pop ups, student nights and launches with RSVP forms and capacity limits. Pages are built from reusable blocks, so marketing can publish a new event page in minutes rather than briefing a developer each time.
Faster campaign pages with less developer time.
Technical SEO built in from the start: clean URLs, XML sitemaps, Organization and LocalBusiness markup, image optimisation and Core Web Vitals checks on real phones. For groups running several brand sites we set consistent standards so each site is indexed correctly.
Every site in the group gets a sound technical base.
Role based editing so HR manages careers, compliance owns policy pages and marketing runs news and events. Drafts can require approval before publishing, and every change is logged with who made it and when.
Many editors, one consistent site.
A newsroom for announcements, brand assets, executive photos and approved boilerplate text, with a contact route that reaches the right person in the press office. Assets are grouped by brand so a journalist covering one label does not have to dig through files for the whole group, and expired campaigns can be archived rather than deleted.
Media requests handled faster with fewer follow up emails.
Who this is for
Manchester's fashion economy covers fast growing online labels with head offices in the city centre and Salford, a dense wholesale district in Cheetham Hill, independent and vintage shops in the Northern Quarter and Afflecks, premium stores around King Street and Spinningfields, and a steady supply of graduates from the Manchester Fashion Institute. The four starting points below are the ones we see most. Many clients fit more than one, and the platform can grow from one to the next.
Your store works, but the about page, careers and press links are squeezed into a commerce theme that was never designed for them. We build a separate corporate and careers platform that links cleanly to the store, with its own editors, analytics and search setup, so recruitment and corporate messages stop competing with product pages. Shoppers who search for the company name rather than the brand also land somewhere sensible.
Store stays as it is; the group gets its own site.
Much of your business still happens by phone, in the showroom and through messaging apps. A trade portal lets retailers browse new lines between visits and apply for accounts online, while you keep control over who sees prices. We plan it around the way your buyers already order rather than forcing a new process. Seasonal launches and new arrivals can be pushed to trade customers by email straight from the portal.
Private ranges and account approval first.
Your stock changes daily and customers follow you closely. The site needs fresh arrivals, events and directions more than heavy features. We keep it light, quick to update from a phone and strong in local search for the area and the styles you specialise in. Searches for the Northern Quarter, vintage denim or one off pieces are the ones worth winning.
Simple, fast and easy to post to.
You need credibility with buyers, press and early customers on a small budget. We focus on a strong portfolio style site with a lookbook, a short story about the label and a clear contact route, and build it to extend later rather than replace. A short page on your graduate collection gives press a reason to link to you.
Small first release, designed to grow.
How the engagement works
We are not based in Manchester. Codeeo's team of 80+ works from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, and holds a 4.7 rating from 23 Google reviews. Manchester clients work with us by video call and through a shared project board where scope, decisions and open questions are recorded. Larger groups can bring in their own IT or security teams to review architecture and access before launch, and we work with them directly. After launch, support can continue on a rolling basis for new sections and changes, or your in house team can take over completely using the handover documentation.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
Group and careers platforms often suit a headless CMS with Next.js, which lets several teams edit content safely and keeps pages fast. Independents usually do better on WordPress. Trade portals can be built on either, or on Laravel when complex account rules are needed. We recommend after discovery, not before, and we explain hosting, upkeep and who can maintain each option in future.
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The store sells products; the website platform does everything else.
Commerce platforms are excellent at product pages and checkout but awkward for careers, corporate news, supplier policies, trade accounts and creator programmes. We build those as a separate platform with its own CMS, editors and analytics, linked closely to the store so customers move between them without confusion. Your existing store does not need to change, and both can share design elements so the brand looks consistent. Shared navigation and footer links make the handover between the two feel natural to visitors.
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