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Bespoke web design for businesses across Ireland, from our studio in County Clare.

Websites built to remove the constraints on your growth.

Design Web Studio

Designed to remove the constraints that hold your business back and give you more room to grow.

Part one

Growth

What your website can do for the business, and how we build it to keep growing with you.

What could your website be doing for your business?

More than a place to put your information. Your website can make it easier for customers to understand what you do, generate enquiries, sell products, manage content, introduce new services and support the way your business grows.

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  • Make it easier toBe found
  • Make it easier toChoose you
  • Make it easier toBuy
  • Make it easier toGet in touch
  • Make it easier toManage
  • Make it easier toGrow
  1. 01Redesign
  2. 02Rebuild
  3. 03Add functionality
  4. 04Optimise
  5. 05Grow

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Blueprint Before Build

Before we build, we work out what the website needs to do.

Before design and development begins, we look at your business, your customers, what you want the website to achieve and what is currently getting in the way.

  1. 01

    Diagnose

    Understand the business, audience, current website and constraints.

  2. 02

    Action Plan

    Define the structure, priorities, content direction and functionality.

  3. 03

    Design & Build

    Create the website around those decisions.

  4. 04

    Optimise

    Improve performance, usability, SEO and the areas that matter as the business develops.

Websites

Websites built around your business.

For businesses that need a website they can manage, expand and develop over time, we build on a flexible foundation. We set it up around the way your business works, so updating it is straightforward and adding to it later doesn’t mean starting again.

Websites
  1. 01Flexible content
  2. 02Easy management
  3. 03Custom functionality
  4. 04Performance
  5. 05Mobile experience
  6. 06SEO foundations
  7. 07Room to grow

Brand identity

Make the website feel like your business.

Design, typography, imagery, colour and visual identity all need to work together so the website feels credible and recognisable.

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Mobile first

Built for the phone in your customer’s hand.

Speed

Ready almost as soon as it’s opened.

Readability

Smooth to scroll. Easy to read.

Reach

Every action within reach of a thumb.

Enquiries

Fewer steps between interest and enquiry.

Our framework

A lighter framework, felt on every phone.

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Part two

Removing constraints

What gets in the way of growth, and how we take it out of the way.

Your website should do more than look good.

A good website should make your business easier to understand, easier to trust and easier to choose. It should support the way your business actually works and give you the flexibility to change, improve and grow.

  1. 01A website that is difficult to updateFixed
  2. 02A site that does not generate enough enquiriesFixed
  3. 03A slow mobile experienceFixed
  4. 04A complicated buying processFixed
  5. 05Content that no longer reflects the businessFixed
  6. 06A website that cannot easily accommodate new services or functionalityFixed

We start by working out what needs to change.

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Room for growth

Remove the constraints. Make room for growth.

Sometimes growth is held back by something surprisingly simple.

  • A website that is difficult to update.
  • A buying process that creates friction.
  • A site that does not communicate the value of the business.
  • A lack of useful functionality.
  • Poor performance.
  • A structure that no longer reflects how the business operates.

We look for those constraints and build around them.

The goal is not simply a better website.

It is a website that gives your business more room to grow.

Different businesses. Different constraints.

A professional practice, retailer, service business or growing company may need very different things from its website.

The starting point is not a template. It is understanding what the business needs the website to do.

  • Professional practices
  • Retailers
  • Service businesses
  • Growing companies

Working across Ireland

Based in Clare. Connected to the West. Working nationally.

Design Web Studio is a web design studio in Ennis, County Clare. We work with businesses throughout the West of Ireland, from Clare and Galway north along the Wild Atlantic Way to Mayo, Sligo and Donegal, and south to Kerry, Cork and Waterford, as well as with clients across the rest of the country. We meet in person where it helps and work remotely where it doesn’t.

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West
Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Mayo, Galway and Clare
Mid-West
Limerick and surrounding areas
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Kerry, Cork and Waterford
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Dublin and businesses throughout Ireland

Services

Ecommerce

An online shop built around how you sell.

Ecommerce should make it straightforward for customers to discover products, understand them and buy. We plan the shop around your products and your customers, then build it so it can grow with the range.

  • Product presentation
  • Navigation
  • Filtering
  • Mobile shopping
  • Checkout journey
  • Product management
  • Promotions
  • Room to expand
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Buying journey

Remove friction from the buying journey.

Friction 01

Difficult navigation

Friction 02

Poor mobile experience

Friction 03

Too many steps

Friction 04

Unclear product information

Friction 05

Weak search and filtering

Friction 06

Confusing calls to action

Why it matters

Small points of friction can become barriers to growth.

Shopify

Shopify built around the way your business sells.

We design, develop and customise Shopify stores, and keep improving them after launch. With thoughtful design, custom sections, clear navigation and filtering, strong product presentation and careful mobile UX, a store can go well beyond an off-the-shelf theme.

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Liquid front-end development

Custom Liquid for stores that have outgrown their theme.

Liquid is the templating language behind every Shopify theme. We write custom sections, blocks and snippets directly in the theme code, so new features don’t depend on another app and the store stays fast.

  1. 01Custom sections and blocks
  2. 02Metafields and metaobjects
  3. 03Online Store 2.0 theme development
  4. 04Theme customisation and refactoring
  5. 05App-free features built into the theme
  6. 06Speed and Core Web Vitals
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