Live website · Groundworks, Greater Manchester
Mark Leigh Excavations
A redesign for a family-run groundworks firm in Greater Manchester: one section for homeowners and one for builders and developers, a page for each of the 42 towns it covers, and quotes and calls a tap away on a phone.
The business
The job
Mark Leigh Excavations is a family-run excavation and groundwork business with more than 20 years’ experience, working for homeowners, builders and developers across Greater Manchester and Cheshire.
Its customers search in two very different ways. A homeowner wants a new driveway, a patio or drainage sorted; a builder or site manager wants groundwork priced from drawings and planned around a programme. In October 2026 I redesigned the website around both, with the business’s own photos and words checked line by line.
The website
What I built
Sixty-seven pages, each with a job to do.
- Two sections, two audiencesDomestic and Commercial each have their own menu and nine service pages, worded for how homeowners and the trade search, so the two don’t compete in Google.
- A page for each of 42 townsEach with that town’s own facts: the distance from the yard, the drive time, its postcodes and the route, all confirmed by the business.
- The areas covered, on a mapEvery town on one map, so people can see straight away whether they’re covered.
- Real jobs, in a galleryPhotos of the business’s own work, sorted by category, each opening full size.
- Quotes and calls a tap awayA call and quote bar on phones, a free site visit and written quote offered throughout, and a form that goes straight to Mark.
- Every claim checkedEach claim the website makes was checked on a review page and marked true or not. Only the true ones made it on.
- Old addresses kept workingEvery address from the previous website redirects to its new home, so links and bookmarks still land somewhere useful.
- Search foundationsStructured data for the business and its services, a sitemap, and a title and description written for every page.
Since launch
Looking after it
I host the website and keep it up to date.
When the business has news, a new service or new photos of finished jobs, it sends them over and I make the change.
Screens
More of the website.
Screenshots of the live website, taken in October 2026.
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