Web design across Northern Ireland
A small, closely connected market with a growing technology sector and cross-border trade to account for.
Northern Ireland is a compact market where business networks overlap heavily. Belfast dominates, with Derry, Lisburn, Newry and Ballymena forming the secondary centres, and agriculture and food production significant throughout.
Belfast has built a genuine technology and professional services sector, and expectations there are comparable with any UK city. Elsewhere, agriculture, manufacturing, construction and tourism lead.
Cross-border trade with the Republic is routine for many businesses, which raises practical website questions: currency, delivery, VAT treatment and whether the site speaks to a customer in Donegal as readily as one in Antrim.
Two smaller details catch websites out here. People frequently search by county rather than town — Antrim, Down, Armagh, Tyrone, Fermanagh — so a site naming only cities quietly misses them. And the second city is called Derry by some and Londonderry by others, which is worth deciding deliberately rather than by accident: use the form your own customers use, and use it consistently.
What we noticeIf you sell into the Republic, the site should handle currency, delivery and tax clearly rather than leaving the customer to guess. If you do not, say so plainly and save everyone the enquiry.
Towns and cities in Northern Ireland
Each page covers what the local market actually looks like, not a template with the name changed.
Other parts of the UK
The work is the same wherever it is done, but what local customers search for is not. Each region page is written about that region.
Work we have shipped
Live sites for real businesses. Visit any of them and judge the standard for yourself.
Tell me about your business.
One message is enough to start. I’ll read it and reply myself, usually with a couple of questions and a clear price.
Liam Tapp, Website Builds