Web design agency for Irish businesses, built by our own EU team

Three kinds of project, and the difference between them is not page count.

A brochure site is for businesses where the customer reads, then rings or fills in a form, and pays afterwards. Trades, clinics, consultancies, professional services. One page per service rather than one page listing everything, because that is what search engines tell apart.

An online shop is for businesses that need payment on the spot: catalogue, cart, a payment provider, and order and stock handling behind it.

A custom build covers what the first two do not: logins with permission levels, a booking engine tied to your availability, a client portal, or a link to the system you already run the business on.

All three are written in our own code, not assembled from a bought theme. We do not build sites in WordPress. It appears here as a comparison while you decide, and as the platform we move a business off.

Most enquiries from Ireland ask for both at once, and for a practical reason.

The decisions that make a site findable are taken while it is being built. Which page answers which search. Whether each service gets its own address or is buried in a tab. Whether it loads quickly on a phone on a patchy connection. Retrofitting that later means rewriting a structure somebody has signed off.

So the same people do both here. The build includes the technical base: clean structure, titles and descriptions written rather than generated, a sitemap, structured data, redirects if a site existed before, and analytics that runs only after the visitor makes a cookie choice.

What the build does not include is continuing work every month. That is a separate engagement with its own scope and reporting, described in full under search engine optimisation for Irish websites.

CJM Bathrooms is a bathroom renovation business in Ireland. The site is live at cjm-bathrooms.ie.

The job was a move rather than a redesign. The business was on WordPress, where most small trade sites in this sector start. We rebuilt it on our own code, moved DNS through Cloudflare so the cutover was planned rather than an emergency, carried the existing customer reviews across, and set analytics to fire only after consent.

The reviews were the part we were most careful with. A page can be rewritten in an afternoon. A customer who described their bathroom three years ago will not write it again because a website changed.

The project ran remotely, from the first call to the cutover, in a country where we have no office. We have not published traffic or sales figures for it, because we do not publish numbers a client has not agreed to make public.

We invoice in euro, by bank transfer, from Romania. The figure on the quote is the figure on the invoice, with nothing added afterwards.

What decides the figure is scope, not page count: whether you supply text and photographs or we produce them, whether the site takes payments, and whether it has to talk to a system you already use.

The budget bands, what each one buys, and the yearly cost of hosting and upkeep are set out at how much a website costs in Ireland, in euro rather than in a converted figure.

We are not going to publish a ranking of Irish studios. Every list like that is written by somebody with an interest in it, and the studio that suits a shop with ten thousand products is wrong for a five page dental practice. What is useful is the set of questions you can put to anybody, including us.

Who actually does the work. Ask for names, and whether they are employees, contractors, or another firm the job gets passed to again.

What is written in the quote. Price, deliverables, timeline, and how many rounds of changes are included. If any is missing, you are holding an intention rather than a quote.

What stays yours at the end. Code, content, domain, hosting access and analytics accounts, in your company name.

What you can check in the portfolio. Sites that are online today and that you open yourself, not screenshots in a slide deck.

What happens after launch. Who makes changes, what you pay monthly or yearly, and what leaving looks like.

And ask what a supplier will not promise. Nobody controls a position in Google, so anyone offering you one has told you what the rest of the conversation is worth.

We work across the Republic of Ireland: Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick, and counties Carlow, Donegal, Kildare, Meath, Wexford and Kerry. Everything runs remotely, so where you are makes no difference to the price or the timeline.

There are no separate pages here for each of those places, and that is deliberate. A page that only swaps a town name in and out is thin content and search engines have been discounting it for years.

The area covered is the Republic, and the prices are in euro. If you are in Northern Ireland, say so on the first call: the currency, the invoicing and the consumer rules are different there.

We can build the local signals that sit on your own property: a page per service and per area you genuinely cover, contact details that match everywhere, structured data, and a route for collecting reviews. We cannot promise a place in the map results, because that is not ours to give.

The brief comes first, on a call in English, on Google Meet or by phone, with a written summary afterwards so what we heard is on paper and you can correct it.

Then the scope and the price in writing: what is included, what is not, and what we need from you. Nothing starts before you have that.

Content next, and this is where most projects lose time. Text, photographs, logos, domain access. We give you the list at the start, because the timeline runs from a complete brief, not from the day a deposit lands.

Design and build happen on a test address you open on your own phone, which is where the useful comments come from.

Launch is scheduled with you: date, time, what changes at DNS level, and the way back if something looks wrong. Afterwards you get the admin area, a handover call, and small corrections in the first weeks as part of the project price.

We have no office in Ireland and we do not rent an address to look like we have one. Nobody is driving to your premises, attending your Monday meeting, or photographing your workshop.

We have no Google reviews on an Irish profile, because we have no Irish profile. Our reference in Ireland is one delivered project, and you can open it yourself.

We do not sell WordPress builds, we do not sell link packages, and we do not promise positions in search results.

If a supplier who can be in the room matters to you, an Irish studio is the better fit, and settling that now costs both of us less than settling it in week four.

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