Fade & Fettle: a barbershop website, built from one brief.
Four pages for a two-chair barbershop in Manchester's Northern Quarter: a full price list on the home page, opening hours in the header and footer, photographs of the cuts and the room, and a booking inquiry form that reaches the shop by email. The design, the writing and the images all came from the brief below.
What the builder was given.
You type a sentence and the chat asks a few questions. Your answers become a brief like this one, and the site below came out of it.
- Purpose
- Barbershop in Manchester's Northern Quarter — walk-ins and appointments
- Audience
- Men in and around the Northern Quarter — regulars who want a sharp, consistent cut, people working nearby, dads bringing kids in
- Tone
- Confident, local, no fluff. Short sentences.
- Key facts
- Skin fade £22, scissor cut £20, beard trim £12, cut & beard £30, kids under 12 £15, hot towel shave £25
- Open Tue–Fri 9–7, Sat 8–5, closed Sun and Mon
- Walk-ins welcome; appointments guarantee a chair
- Two barbers
- Northern Quarter, Manchester
- Business type
- Barbershop
- Location
- Northern Quarter, Manchester, UK
- Pages
- Home, Services & Prices, The Shop, Contact
- Built
- August 30, 2026
What was asked for, and what came back.
Home
Open this pageAsked for
One screen sells the shop: sharp cuts, Northern Quarter, walk in or book. Must include the full price list on this page. Photos of cuts and the shop interior. End with the Book a chair form or a clear route to it.
Services & Prices
Open this pageAsked for
The six services with exact prices: skin fade £22, scissor cut £20, beard trim £12, cut & beard £30, kids under 12 £15, hot towel shave £25. A short plain line on what each includes. No packages, no upsell tiers.
The Shop
Open this pageAsked for
About the shop and the two barbers — who they are, how they cut, why the shop is the way it is. Specific and personal, not corporate. Interior photos.
Contact
Open this pageAsked for
The Book a chair enquiry form (name, what they're after, preferred day/time), the address and how to find the shop stated as text, opening hours, and a clear walk-in note: walk-ins welcome, appointments guarantee a chair.
What comes out of a build: pages planned for the business, a design of its own, the words written and the forms wired.
Edit by chatThere is no canvas to drag. Describe the change in the studio chat and it is made, with the design intact.
Free website builderOne complete site, published free at a designhouse.site address. No card and no trial clock; Pro when you want a domain of your own.
Building without codeNothing to install, no file to open, and the jobs you were told need a developer are done during the build.
How long it takesHalf of first builds finish in under nine minutes, and the site is answering at its address by the time the build stops.
If you are not a designerYou are not asked to pick a theme, a font or a layout. Those are settled in the build and they hold while you change the words.
Updated September 2026